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Mozilla has fired Chief Product Officer Steve Teixeira after cancer diagnosis (mastodon.social)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You missed this paragraph, which is curious.

After he returned, the suit says, Teixeira was asked to carry out and falsely take responsibility for a decision to make job cuts that were planned in his absence. He questioned the need for the layoffs and raised concerns about the potential to disproportionately impact women and people of color, the suit says.

Mozilla was trying to use him as a scapegoat, putting profits ahead of people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I have met Steve at Ms several times, and he always seemed like a nice and genuinely motivated person. He seemed to like product challenges and even took on hard tasks like leading the core team of Windows 8.1 App enablement ( think of getting Facebook to create a Windows native app). I'd believe him that Mozilla treated him wrongly or asked unfair things of him, otherwise he wouldn't need to take these steps.