Astronomer CEO resigns 😶 https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/19/business/andy-byron-astronomer-ceo-resigns
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I was terminated and escorted out of my last job in the Healthcare IT industry without warning. It was due to reporting a few coworkers for violating HIPPA, and preventing a social engineering attempt in real time with security and fellow clinical systems analysts. Was informed that doing so was a terminable offense because it is not my responsibilty to contact our security team. Later found out that the Human Resources Department didn't approve of my termination and advised against it
I’ve been WFH from a different country for three months without telling HR, and the anxiety is finally starting to eat me alive. My VPN is holding up, and my manager hasn't noticed that my home office background is just a stock photo. The tax implications are probably a nightmare, but my quality of life has doubled since I left the Bay Area. Is it better to ask for forgiveness if I get caught? Should I just keep going?
The work culture on my team is pretty bad. There is high burn out, lots of fighting, finger pointing, working 24/7. When I bring this up, the leaders mention that this is just how tech culture is. It is worse at other companies. I haven’t worked at another company so I feel like I can’t counter. What should I say?
How do you deal with the feeling that your entire professional output is meaningless? I’m watching my company ignore every single one of my user-centric findings. They pay me to conduct deep-dive interviews and usability tests, but at the end of the day, the CEO just goes with whatever gut feeling he had. It’s soul-crushing.
I know of an employer that employs asian females almost exclusively in their production area. The job is mostly soldering through hole components. The pay isn't very high. There are about 40 people working in that production area and it's 95% asian females. The odd part is there are two leads and a supervisor in that area and they are all white. It really seems like race based hiring practices.
Lol hard to feel bad for the guy, he had it coming right? He's got loads of money so I'm sure he'll bounce back once the desk settles. Wonder what's going to happen to the HR director now
I kind of saw that coming. It's a huge story. I feel bad for the spouses, who are the victims and all of this. And I'm kind of surprised that the head of HR didn't resign, since that's like, her entire job… To enforce the rules that she very publicly broke.
Do we know that they have rules against dating internally? Infidelity isn’t a rule that a company would have. What could easily be in place is a rule about dating within your reporting chain of command. While she’s breaking it, it could be positioned as a power dynamic that she couldn’t refuse. Who knows what the real story is, but having a relationship with the boss is a well-known trope for a reason.
Accountability is a wonderful thing
He'll be posting on here soon!
Karma ...
If they would have acted normal this probably wouldn't be news.
Thoughts and prayers. I'm sure he'll be just fine.