Still Free

Yeah, Mr. Smiley. Made it through the entire Trump presidency without being enslaved. Imagine that.

Thursday, October 01, 2020

Coinbase Has Adults In Charge

 Back in March of 2017 I asked the following question:

When Will The Adults Regain Control?

 There I wrote, in part:

This is what we are dealing with. The worst part here is that such an attitude is apparently prevalent on a university campus where reading primary sources and doing research on ideas "good" or "bad" is supposed to be a requirement of education. When you have a mass of students who are protesting a presentation of someone's work whom they have not read it is a failure of the administration.

Students entering an institution of "higher education" should be informed in no uncertain terms that while they have freedom of speech and congregation, they will be removed from campus for disrupting sanctioned events without appeal. To be fair, the first time should be warning, a second a semester suspension without refund of any fees and the third a lifetime expulsion from said institution. There are cameras all over campuses these days so it is easy to find out who has done what.

Though I was speaking of education, my thinking applies to businesses. I'd go further and say that businesses should be exceptionally strict in this regard. You're employed to do work FOR the business. The business doesn't exist to do the bidding or wishes of the employees. If an employee doesn't like it, they should be out. Pronto. 

And so we come to Coinbase

Coinbase is offering to pay employees who decide to quit the cryptocurrency company after it discouraged employee activism and discussing of political and social issues at work.
Yes. More of this please. 

CEO Brian Armstrong told Coinbase staff in an email that the company would offer severance packages for anyone “who doesn’t feel comfortable with this new direction.” The pay packages range from four to six months, depending on how long an employee had been with the company. 

Personally, I think he's being TOO generous. But I think the generosity is so that these disruptive and unproductive employees leave sooner rather than later. 

A YouTuber pointed out that with 40% of the electorate supportive of Trump, such workplace activism potentially creates a hostile work environment, and as such "woke" employees become a legal liability.

Time for edu to follow and put out those who are attempting to attach SJW nonsense onto, in particular, the sciences. Kill the "safe space" and "trigger warning" nonsense.