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Yep, no goodbye note was really the highlight of everything that happened at npm in the last couple of months.

This article about union busting https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/technology/tech-companies...

and this one about working conditions at npm https://www.businessinsider.com/npm-employees-open-letter-20...

or The Register who covered mostly everything that happened since the first layoff mentioned in my Twitter thread https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/22/npm_fired_staff_uni...

I don't know anything about NPM's board of directors. I don't know who is on it. So this should not be read as some sort of criticism of them.

But I know there are some boards of directors out there, who would view the ability to bust unions (and get away with it) as a reason to hire, not a reason to fire.

I don't know why they let go of their CEO. I wouldn't assume it was necessarily for any of the reasons you mentioned. It certainly could have been, but it also could very easily have been for completely unrelated reasons.

I completely agree with you on this!

I wasn't mentioning those were the reasons, but that those were part of what happened in the last months.

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