Ethereum Foundation mandate includes suicide pledge
Original title: Crypto foundation demanded employees endorse suicide pledge
The Ethereum Foundation distributed a document with a suicide pledge to employees, resulting in some being fired after resistance.
On a Friday in March, employees at The Ethereum Foundation received a 38-page mandate document that included a suicide pledge labeled as the Source Seppuku License. Employees were required to commit to the mandate or quit, but after pushback the pledge was clarified as not literal and removed from the commitment form. The foundation leader defended the pledge as artistic, but leadership fired employee Kayleen Fulton after she led resistance to the pledge.
Unconfirmed: The foundation stated the suicide pledge was not meant to be taken literally.
- Employees voted to nix the suicide pledge but it was included in the final mandate
- Fired employee led 53 others to sign a letter declining the form
- The foundation aesthetic referenced controversial online figures
- Organizations
- Ethereum Foundation
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On a Friday in March, employees at an international technology foundation received a 38-page document outlining leadership’s vision for the foundation for the next 1,000 years.
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