sé reedI filed my first #WordPress Code of Conduct violation report today, after 11 years of being in the WordPress community.
I wrote about it, and published the report itself, on the @WPwatercooler site.
Javi A.@sereedmedia the gist of all this is that y'all are starting to see the Matt those in automattic are used to see internally. My theory is that all those years of increasingly being a petty tyrant to his employees has made a dent on his personality and it's finally showing up outside.
@sereedmedia when I started in a8c, we used to joke there were two Matts: townhalls Matt, who were a charming people pleaser, and team-call Matt, who was harsh, scary and kind of rude. As time went by, the rude Matt started to show up in public events more often.
@sereedmedia "what do you mean with harsh": I was part of the jetpack leadership team between 2016 and 2018, and we had a recurrent call with M every two weeks (or monthly? Can't remember exactly). His role in the call was to be there stone-faced, and every time someone shared something positive, interrupt them to remember how we were still failing because jetpack wasn't reaching the grow level he expected.
@sereedmedia We were growing 30% yoy, but his expectation was 40%, so he was so nice to remind us how utterly we were failing every time he spoke with us. "us" being either "the leads" or "automattic at large" (every time jp was mentioned in any company-wide call he was so nice to remind everyone how the jetpack team was still failing). In my time there I didn't see him saying one single positive thing about anything the team had done. It was all dismissive comments and thinly veiled menaces
@sereedmedia so yeah, it looks what's going on here is that the community is finally getting the same version of Matt automatticians have been getting for years 🤷