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    404media:

    In the aftermath of an LGBT hate incident, the then-CEO of cloud computing giant Digital Ocean told upset staff his mentor was a member of the KKK as an attempt to explain why they must bend their values because ā€œwe love the companyā€

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      Asking employees to ā€œbendā€ their perfectly sensible values like ā€œI donā€™t like homophobesā€ or ā€œmembers of the KKK suckā€ is insane to me, but exactly the sort of thing a tech CEO would think would resonate with his workers.

      I stay at my job not because I have molded my soul into a perfect vessel for my companies values (which, TBH, kind of suck), but because I have a mortgage payment.

      (Also as the header graphic points out, ā€œlove is at our coreā€ and ā€œinclusive environmentā€ are apparently some of their values so maybe itā€™s Digital Ocean which needs to bend to Digital Oceanā€™s values).

      At least thereā€™s a happy ending:

      A month after the all-hands meeting, in August 2023, DigitalOcean announced that it was conducting a search for a new CEO, but did not say why.