Steve Teixeira (@stevetex@mastodon.social)
mastodon.social
With just a few days’ notice, Mozilla terminated my employment this month after leaving me hanging on leave without explanation for several months. My discrimination case against them therefore enters a new phase after this wrongful termination. https://mastodon.social/@stevetex/112780506720122370

sigh

  • aberrate_junior_beatnik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    146·
    3 months ago

    It’s truly wild how hard of a heel turn mozilla has taken. I’m going to cancel my recurring donations to them, and get off all of their products.

        • LWD@lemm.eeOP
          40·
          3 months ago

          Is Mozilla in on it too? Because they’re the ones who orchestrated laying off Steve Teixeira.

          • zante@lemmy.wtfEnglish
            29·
            3 months ago

            this week the chat has all been “Mozilla are going in the wrong direction , They’re selling out, they using AI, they’re hiring ad experts”. - all over xitter all over lemmy.

            Now someone dug up this old story about teixeira Suing them, because he claims they demoted him because of cancer. A

            With the scarcity of facts available at this stage , one thing we know is that both AI and advertising were championed by…. Texeira - ex of Microsoft, twitter and Facebook.

            So, an alternate but equally plausible narrative, might be “Teixeira strayed to far into commercialisation, received a shitty performance review, and got moved out of his role”

            • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
              10·
              3 months ago

              Yeah especially if you look on reddit, it’s a handful of accounts with a very concerted effort.

              Don’t get me wrong it’s shitty behaviour, but it’s also fairly obviously some are getting paid to suddenly do this.

              • LWD@lemm.eeOP
                3·
                3 months ago

                Which accounts do you believe are witches paid shills?

                Shill accusations are fun, because they can’t be disproven, and their weight is informed solely by the social capital of the person making the accusations.

            • LWD@lemm.eeOP
              5·
              3 months ago

              Okay, your reply is kind of ironic because, in your defense of Mozilla, you’ve opened up new ways you find Mozilla to be bad. For example, "“Mozilla are going in the wrong direction , They’re selling out, they using AI, they’re hiring ad experts”

              Either you believe Mozilla venturing into AI and ads are bad, or it’s good… but exposing it hurts Mozilla. Which?

              Now someone dug up this old story about teixeira Suing them

              Mozilla fired Teixeira a couple days ago. That’s not old.

              both AI and advertising were championed by…. Texeira

              I know you’re trying to get in a gotcha here, but according to Mozilla’s own testimony:

              “[Teixeira] failed to adequately address the considerable concerns and feedback the Board and CEO raised regarding product strategy, including actively resisting requests that he engage in generative Artificial Intelligence (“GenAI”)”

    • romp_2_door@lemmy.world
      11·
      3 months ago

      holy shit you donated money to these wackos?

      with so many OOS projects out there in need of funding, so many devs roughing it up, you donate to the advertising company Mozilla that has zero cash needs, they give million dollar bonuses to their executives every year.

      Literally giving money to wacko rich executives