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Blog is badly written. There are excessive uses of pronoun without proper references to who means whom. Points backing up the idea is shallow. Author looks he wrote the blog while being angry.

Everything aside, I do agree with sentiment and would go on to say the nature of HR depend on the company. As it was alluded to later in the company. In my previous company, HR used to tell everything to the manager. Seriously everything!! In current one so far it looks good. But, let's see



> There are excessive uses of pronoun without proper references to who means whom. Points backing up the idea is shallow.

I don't follow this logic that pronouns somehow means the idea is shallow. These workplace stories are usually intended to be vaguely written and not overly specific to avoid doxxing. In other words, plausible deniability.


i agree with you. not necessarily the pronouns but it's a very fast drop. and i believe it is hinting at what happened at GitHub. fundamentally, it is not telling us anything most of us don't already know.

but go figure...


two fyi's:

1) author is female.

2) she gets that feedback a lot that she's overly aggressive in her blogging. Mostly she dismisses it as misogyny but here you thought she was a guy... I wonder how she'll respond.


>Mostly she dismisses it as misogyny

Starting not to be surprised she has such a bone to pick with HR




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