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former_mozzer ◴[] No.19825091[source]
There have been major organizational problems at Mozilla for a long time that precipitated this. Many of us saw something like this coming, saw gaps and unclear responsibilities, reported these gaps and confusions up the chain, and were reprimanded and financially penalized for asking the tough questions. The questions were never answered, and we all quit, were fired, or lost motivation as a result.

This is a tech problem, yes. Cert renewal has bitten everyone in a high profile way (apple, google, and ms have all had renewal-related outages in recent years). But this was preventable at Mozilla. Ask a Mozillian about IT and Cloud Sevices, and what their respective responsibilities are. Ask Mozilla’s VP of IT- who is responsible for cert renewal? Ask Mozilla leadership- why are people afraid to ask questions?

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antihero ◴[] No.19825129[source]
If you're going to quit anyway, and not saying this is a good idea, what prevents you literally going and yelling at these idiots demanding answers as to why they are not doing their jobs?
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former_mozzer ◴[] No.19825158[source]
So many people have done this. Watch videos of past Mozilla All Hands meetings. You see the questions asked, you see the leaders dodge, and you see that soon after the askers are gone and leaders say- you have nothing to be afraid of, you don’t need to ask questions anonymously. “Executives” at 1000 person Mozilla are so distant from the workers, and middle managers listen to executives, not staff. It is so sad because Mozilla staff are smart, caring people who love the web, but they are powerless and afraid in the org today.
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1. user17843 ◴[] No.19825325[source]
Thank you for speaking out here! I hope that mozilla employees manage to free themselves from their leadership and change the organization from within. It's possible, even though most employees who could change something have decided to simply leave over the years. Maybe mozilla needs a stark revenue drop to get humble again?