[Foundation-l] Recent firing?

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/11/1 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2009/11/1 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
>>>>> Like, say, if you have two offices that combine into one big office?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, that would generally result in genuine redundancies.
>>>
>>> And, of course, is exactly what the Wikimedia Foundation just did.
>>
>> Sure, but in this case there wasn't any duplication of roles between
>> the offices, to the best of my knowledge.
>
> But "the best of your knowledge" is that you don't know what happened.
>  You're quick to criticize the rumor that he was fired, but then you
> yourself engage in speculating that he wasn't fired (and presenting
> that speculation as fact).  We don't know what happened.  It could be
> any one of a large number of things.

I have never heard of someone being fired and working a month's notice
and without evidence to the contrary I will assume that the WMF aren't
trying to intentionally mislead us about who is and isn't working for
them. That leaves me to assume he was not fired. There are all kinds
of other possibilities; I've listed the ones I think are most likely
earlier in this thread.