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Lawsuit Alleges Reddit Fired Employee for Taking Medical Leave, ‘Toxic’ Culture (www.404media.co)

submitted 1 year ago by trashhalo@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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A lawsuit was filed against Reddit alleging that the company fired an employee with anxiety for taking medical leave. The employee, Jamie Lee, had worked at Reddit as an accountant for over 4 years with positive reviews. In July 2022, Lee requested 3 days off for her health but was denied. She was later placed on medical leave after fainting, but was fired upon returning and accused of poor performance. However, the lawsuit claims others made similar mistakes. It also alleges Reddit's new leadership under the CFO has created a "toxic, political, and not inclusive" culture, which two other employees also left over. This highlights challenges employees faced with the changing culture at Reddit.

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

Yep this is pretty much what I came into the thread to read about. I'm sure the claims have merit and I don't doubt that Reddit could have a toxic work culture (just look at the decision making over the years, clearly people aren't comfortable pushing back against bad ideas)

Just usually when I hear about toxic grind culture, the company is producing something, be it content or some competitive product.

Reddit is doing what other open source devs are doing for free, and somehow doing that badly. The app is bad, the front end for new Reddit is constantly buggy, and it takes a very long time for things to get fixed.

What are they doing to the workers...