> My suspicion is that Victoria was terminated for entirely legitimate reasons unrelated to the operation of /r/IAmA.
If so, I really don't understand why there hasn't been an official justification yet. So much of the rage could have been defused by a prompt and earnest explanation of why she was fired. The fact that that hasn't happened seems to imply that the real reason would only make people angrier.
I don't understand why people seem to believe that if they just keep angrily asking about it, the company will divulge the reason for Taylor's severance. It is extremely atypical for companies to reveal why they've chosen to let employees go.
It is also, literally, none of our business. Did Taylor ask people to dig into her personnel story? In a situation involving something as private and sensitive and reputational as a termination, you would want more than tea leaf reading: you'd want an overt affirmative consent from Taylor that she wanted the world talking about what happened to her at Reddit.
Apologies if that's what's happened, but I haven't seen it.
Why do you think people believe that? Maybe they are just trolls? Maybe they will just ask because it's easy to ask and someone might respond eventually.
It's not uncommon for a corporation to state why they are terminating an employee. GM terminates known engineers as scapegoats for negligence resulting in multiple deaths; many firms pre-announce mass terminations; some shut-down with no notice, save a publicly posted letter on the front door of their building telling the employees who show up for work that day that they no longer have a job ("sorry! but we tried").
Anyway, reddit left AMA out to dry by not arranging some kind of transition plan for the community, and instead created the perception of operating in secret to unknown ends.
I think people believe it because they want to believe it. Knowing feeds drama. Not knowing starves it.
It is very uncommon for companies to reveal reasons for employee termination. It may seem like that's not the case because the only termination stories you pay attention to are the newsworthy ones where the cause was stated, but that's an artifact of selection bias. Tens of thousands of people are let go every year from tech companies and their stories are never told.
Because I assume that Reddit management would prefer not to have a lot of their user base furious with them, and because a placatory answer (if one was available) would at least ease that a little bit.
But I do have a bad habit of expecting human beings to act like human beings even if they also happen to be corporate leaders.
Perhaps it was for a reason that both parties want to remain confidential?
If she was terminated for cause, Reddit has no obligation to reveal what that cause was, and neither does she. Leave them be, it's not really any of our business anyways.
there are often legal issues around firing someone and explaining why. it's common for both sides to sign a confidentiality agreement on something like this.
If so, I really don't understand why there hasn't been an official justification yet. So much of the rage could have been defused by a prompt and earnest explanation of why she was fired. The fact that that hasn't happened seems to imply that the real reason would only make people angrier.