GitLab Director Resigns, Says It's Engaging In 'Retaliatory Behavior'

'Candice Ciresi, GitLab's director of risk and global compliance, has
resigned after less than six months on the job, apparently saying that
the $2.75 billion startup is "engaging in discriminatory and
retaliatory behavior." Business Insider reports:

Notably, Ciresi resigned in public: GitLab espouses a culture of
transparency, whereby all major product and corporate policy decisions
are announced and discussed where anybody can see. She posted her
resignation in response to one such discussion -- an active debate
over a proposed GitLab policy, in which it would ban the hiring of
people who live in China or Russia for any role that would require
access to customer data. At the time of writing, Ciresi's post
announcing her resignation had been reviewed and then "redacted" by
GitLab, citing concerns that it would "further inflame this
situation." However, Ciresi's comment went out via email to GitLab
users who had subscribed to this particular discussion.

Per a screenshot posted to Reddit, Ciresi wrote: "As I believe GitLab
is engaging in discriminatory and retaliatory behavior, I have
tendered my resignation." "We did decide to moderate this post for
review, as there have already been credible personal and physical
threats against GitLab employees in this issue thread," GitLab says,
in part, in place of Ciresi's comment. "While this particular post did
not contain a personal threat to anyone, we were concerned it would
further inflame this situation."

GitLab confirmed Ciresi's departure but didn't comment any further'

-- source: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/19/11/08/2216219

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
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