Antisocial Coding: My Year at GitHub
There&#x27;s a couple of issues that stand out to me: Github is engaging in risky behaviour by reaching out to individuals (specifically activists) for hire explicitly on the basis of &quot;diversity&quot; and trying to incorporate those individuals in a highly merit-based environment.<p>Secondly, Coraline seems to think that human relationships are a one way street: that she is entitled to be direct and even confrontational or insensitive, especially if she believes she is &quot;right&quot; or in a &quot;mentor&quot; role, and yet her peers are expected to walk on eggshells around her, lest they be accused of attacking her.<p>One part that stood out as particularly odd was her insistence to stay at work while she was suffering with a mental health issue that was clearly affecting her job performance, in spite of her manager&#x27;s request that she take mental health leave. It sounds like she just flat out ignored her manager under the assumption that her manager just needed to accept whatever her therapist advised her to do, which is kind of ridiculous on the face of it.