"On April 3, 2014 Brendan Eich voluntarily stepped down as CEO of Mozilla."
(I'm not going to, but) I can tell you to stop posting on HN every single day of the year indefinitely. But I can't make you. I don't have that power. If you choose to, it's your choice. Eich was not fired. He resigned of his own free will.
If a customer comes into your job, tells you that you should resign, and then your boss says, "ignore him, you can stay", and you resign anyway, can you really tell me that your boss fired you?
> Bigotry? What are you smoking?
Unlike you apparently, I'm not. Since I know what words mean.
"a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion."
Eich was so intolerant of people who held a difference of opinion on what constitutes marriage, that he donated his own money to a cause whose sole purpose was to strip existing legal rights and protections, rights that he enjoyed himself, from a minority class through force of law. There is zero ambiguity here: I cannot possibly think of a clearer case of outright bigotry.
If you disagree, you might want to take a good, long, hard look in the mirror. Per the dictionary; I am selfish, tactless, and many other negative things. I don't pretend those words mean something that don't apply to me, just so I can feel better about myself.
This is madness. Have you ever heard of constructive dismissal?
California Supreme Court:
"the employer either intentionally created or knowingly permitted working conditions that were so intolerable or aggravated at the time of the employee's resignation that a reasonable employer would realize that a reasonable person in the employee's position would be compelled to resign"
Wikipedia:
"In employment law, constructive dismissal, also called constructive discharge, occurs when an employee resigns as a result of the employer creating a hostile work environment. Since the resignation was not truly voluntary, it is in effect a termination. For example, when an employer makes life extremely difficult for an employee, to attempt to have the employee resign, rather than outright firing the employee, the employer is trying to effect a constructive discharge."
Tell me again how Eich's employer made it a hostile working environment for him, please?
Given that he had no boss (being the CEO and all), we can only assume you mean the board members. Please point out to me a single board member who was in any way hostile toward him.
Even the two board members that resigned said it had nothing to do with Eich.
