Comment by port11
2 days ago
Some of the critics in the thread are… odious. I’ve written down some of the GH handles, because if I’m ever hiring again, I wanna make sure I’d never hire some of these folks.
I don’t understand how someone can display such contempt towards the maintainer of a thing they’ve used for free.
> I’ve written down some of the GH handles, because if I’m ever hiring again, I wanna make sure I’d never hire some of these folks.
You can block accounts on GitHub and add a note as to why. Might be simpler and more accessible later on than a random TXT (plus, it probably updates if they change their username).
Note that blocking also means they can’t contribute to your repos. Which you may not care about anyway.
Thank you, that’s indeed much cleverer. Unfortunately I’ve closed my account this year, trying to put my money where my mouth is and not furthering the goals of GitHub or Microsoft.
What's wrong with microsoft and github? I can't lie, between this comment and the "writing down people's github handles out of spite just in case" you are coming off as someone with a lot of grievances.
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"Sorry, we cannot give you the job because even though you're qualified and passed our interviews, you were such a meano to Adam! That is a no-go at this organization"
Who trusted you with hiring
Half the people in that thread have this mentality that just using tailwind is enough contribution, so therefore GiVe mY oPuS MoRe InFo
I thought we learned years ago that exposure doesn't keep the lights on. That mentality is nothing but entitlement
One comment stated that "it's not our fault the founder was unable to manage his finances to pay his people" well if open source worked the way people try to act like it does, he shouldn't have to pay anyone, right? But here we are
So you're going to make a list and ensure they don't find employment? That's really an overreaction. Most people say "personality fit" is a thing, but I feel you're downright disgusting if you're tracking people like this and actively ensuring they don't get a chance because of a difference of opinion. It's vindictive and in poor taste and not objective at all.
That's part of a personality fit.
People get rejected from companies based on nothing but vibes of personality fit every day.
Not wanting to hire a dick who can't keep a cool head and give constructive feedback is perfectly reasonable.
Nice, nothing like a little personal bias to inject into an interview process. If you can't handle criticism and you're just looking for sycophants, you're probably not the type of employer or hiring manager most people want to work for anyway.
Oh, it’s not the criticism. It’s the hatred, the vile attacks on open-source maintainers. I wouldn’t want to work with people like that, would you?
Fair enough, I tend to avoid overly negative people. Criticism can come from a good place to suggest improvements (radical candor), but agreed that some of the comments are just personal attacks. I think we're both in agreement that those aren't people we'd want to work with.
You can use a product and still be critical, especially when layoffs happen, truth is there are a lot of things we don't know about their finances – tailwind definitely is successful by any metrics, they have corporate sponsors that alone give them a healthy MRR (I count at least $100k/month from the sponsors page alone)
I sympathise that it sucks having to fire people, been there. But it sucks more to get fired.
insert "First time?" meme
I am one of those critics, but I never used Tailwind. A layoff of that magnitude is horrific, but if what they are describing as their business model is true, they really really need to rethink it. I wonder what the size of their marketing team is like, and if they were involved in the layoffs. Seems like they need some help there. I found the "downvote" spam in that thread, for reasonable posts, to be quite off-putting, and that led me to my remarks.
The 75% of the team is 3 out of 4 developers. There are no marketing.
Left are the three owners of tailwind, one engineer and one ops+customer service + partner sails person.
Tailwind, not Tailscale.
thanks :D
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> pejudice: an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge
(Or some such variation of “making an opinion before having information”)
It might be unfair but port11 made the opinion of not wanting to work with people after observing their behaviours so it is not prejudice.
unemployed (dot) com.
Specifically thanks to equity takeover. I’m human, so yes, I can be prejudiced. People who succumb to mob mentality to hate F/LOSS maintainers fall under such prejudice.
I don’t want to sound harsh and didn’t mean to offend you.
I wrote down your handle, so if you are ever hiring, I will be able to skip your toxic place.