Proton Colleagues, Unionize Now(molecule.build)

43 pointsby cdrnsf4 hours ago2 comments

glenstein4 hours ago
I first heard about Andy Yen from his claim that Gail Slater's appointment was proof the current administration will be more effective enforcing anti-trust and was the "party of the little guy." And lately he's saying stuff like this (from the linked 404 Media Article):
>According to the report, an employee in Proton's security Slack channel urged the company to take at least a few days to pentest newly written code before pushing it live. Yen replied, at the end of August: "That's bullshit and loser thinking. Of course it's possible to be fast and secure." He added: "Stop thinking always of how to be slower, and focus more on how to be faster." In a follow-up message he wrote "only losers think like that," and his message to the team was to "stop lovingly handcrafting all our code and use AI more."
I think he's terminally online in a way that fried his brain. And I used to think his 88 tattoo was just a coincidence but now I honestly would believe anything.
- Liuser3 hours ago
  Words are important and Andy’s choice of language and delivery rightfully calls into question of his leadership capabilities.
  It’s a stark contrast to the posts we’ve been seeing on Patrick Stewart’s portrayal of Picard as to what it means to be a good leader.
- bluegatty2 hours ago
  It's interesting because he could have said that using slightly different words and had a point and he could have even been right.
  Engineers are delicate.
  I'm on both sides of that fence always.
  Instead of 'don't pent test' it should be 'proportional measures' and definitely should be trying to leverage AI as much as is possible. Which is complicated of course for a company that has a certain kind of brand. They literally do not need to be banging out features.
  - paimapi6 minutes ago
    I think that's generous and would make more sense if he wasn't in leadership for the company. People in positions of power should always be cognizant of their power and language especially in public channels. It's not hard to do - plenty of secretly spiteful and totally-asshole-ish CEOs put a face on their sociopathy that allows them to be believably humble and human because, at minimum, it's not disruptive to employee morale.
    If he can't even do that, he's ill-equipped to be leading a company.
- illiac7862 hours ago
  Is there anything corroborating this 88 tattoo? I will close my account with them tomorrow if I can see a believable source for this.
  - glenstein2 hours ago
    Unfortunately my recollection was dead wrong and it's apparently not a tattoo. At least I can't find anything corroborating my memory. Instead, it was part of his reddit handle. It frequently exists as a tattoo in the universe of iconography relating to that bad german political party which may be where my conflation came from but I don't see anything showing that he has it.
    The post below discusses the user handle and its connotations (I'm less certain than this poster but nothing would surprise me at this point).
    https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/113850246346827615
    skrtskrtan hour ago
    88 is a very common lucky number across several Asian cultures - plenty of bands and artists, et.c will have 88 in their name because of that.
    thejazzman27 minutes ago
    I assumed he was going to time travel..
    zapuan hour ago
    I think he was just born in 1988...
    glensteinan hour ago
    Right, he said as much on reddit
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- skrtskrtan hour ago
  OK so the 88 tattoo thing is not real, but it's pretty clear anyone that thought a second Trump term would do anything for the "little guy" or have the slightest interest in antitrust is a mark of the highest degree.
  Andy Yen is simply a moron and proves it over and over.
robin_reala3 hours ago
Having your campaign’s mailing address be a Tutanota one was presumably calculated to raise Andy’s blood pressure.