What I Learned at Stripe
"If a private DM conversation started to go in that direction [i.e, not positive, not supportive/b_i], someone would speak up to take the conversation to a public channel, and things returned to a more constructive tone."<p>This seems utterly unacceptable to me.<p>Firstly, taking private things public is a breach of trust. There was a reason this wasn't public.<p>Secondly, this seems massively counterproductive. I can't find the story here anymore, from a few weeks ago, where the guy who worked at a laser factory tried to tell people that their laser aim wasn't stable, and the company only fixed it after the customers complained - because the colleagues were aghast at such a "non-positive" attitude from the new guy.<p>Also, I'm German, where all this US "be nice and smile all the time" thing seems at best naive, but also a form of torture and company overreach to try to emotion control employees into this drugged up alice in wonderland facade. "Crowdsourcing" company culture emotion control to a system of shaming and doxxing only makes this worse, as it removes the central point of responsibility for it and allows the company culture control to hide behind the employees for it. This is vile.