Employees describe an environment of paranoia and fear inside Automattic over WordPress chaos.
Employees describe an environment of paranoia and fear inside Automattic over WordPress chaos.
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg made another buyout offer this week, and threatened employees who speak to the press with termination.
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If you’re using any work-related anything to post “anonymously” or talk to journalists, don’t. That Blind redirection is chilling yet it’s well within the capabilities of employers. The right way to talk to journalists like 404 is to find their anonymous contact details eg Signal using your own internet connection and your own device. Work computers can be monitored. Traffic on work computers or work VPNs can be monitored. Company email usage can be monitored. Company phone usage can be monitored. You don’t need to be incredibly private with a VPN over tor and anonymous services; you just need to not use company resources. Whether or not this should be legal is a different story; you just gotta know you have fuck all for privacy on company resources.
I’ve only heard of Blind in passing; that corp email makes it too close to Glassdoor for comfort and it’s very clearly not private with that requirement.
No. Use secure drop
Blind should have another way to prove employment. Checking via email is not secure because it can be intercepted on their network, it should be with something I can access outside of the network.
I log into UKG every two weeks at home to pull my pay stubs for posterity and tax purposes. Ask me for a current pay stub. I'll happily send it over. Shit, you'll get salary data with it.