Grindr’s Return-to-Office Ultimatum Has Gutted a Uniquely Queer Space in Tech::Two weeks after staff at queer dating app Grindr unionized, bosses ordered employees back to the office. Nearly half the app’s workers refused and have been laid off.
Seems like the RTO was rushed and mishandled for some reason. I can only guess they wanted to punish the unionizers or just do a major layoff without calling it a layoff.
Article explains it:
Shortly after Arison was hired as CEO in October, Twitter users unearthed tweets he’d written expressing support for conservative politicians, many of whom had expressed anti-LGBTQ+ views. Robin was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt after he told staff he would change, but says the recent alleged union busting has broken that trust.
They hired a rightwingers as CEO, and even if he changed his mind on social policy, he’s still obviously a Republican on fiscal.
This is a way to get rid of highly paid people since the labor pool for tech ballooned after twitter fired everyone.
He’s hoping for a short dip, then replacing everyone for cheaper salaries.
Jesus. The CEO of Grindr is a supporter of homophobes. We truly are in the worst timeline.
He googled “how to fuck the gays” and grindr was the top result.
Yep. Grinder is a trash company now. I think it was even owned by a company in China for a while, which is just weird.
Seems like it would just be a useful database for blackmailing a bunch of closeted guys.
That’s one of the older tricks, no pun intended. It used to be that you’d have a hard time getting a security clearance if you were gay, with the excuse being that you were vulnerable to blackmail. It’s less of a big deal now, but I can think of a wide class of politicians who would still be vulnerable to blackmail, and grindr is a very popular app during political conventions.
Yeah that seems reasonable. RTO is quite a powerful/interesting tool for these employers
The second part, I think people don’t pick up on that often enough. These return to office pushes are soft layoffs. They get to do a layoff without paying severance or even unemployment.
While this is true, they also don’t get to have as much control and who leaves.
Normally when you do layoffs you strategically keep the people on who were best for the company.
Corporate culture these days seems to value people who will eat shit and smile, not expect raises and not quit when they should above most other metrics… so they do keep the people “best” for the company.
I’ve found that grindr is trying to be more like tinder and less like the hookup app that it once was. Personally, I’ve been using Sniffies for hookups…haven’t touched grindr in like 2 years 💅🏻
It’s amazing how many of these big companies are suddenly coordinated on this return-to-office push. Do they all get together at their bunker/mansions in New Zealand to discuss these evil plans?
Probably Davos. But seriously, all those billionaires follow the same social calendar, and that includes stuff like Davos, the Monaco GP, Warren Buffett’s party, etc, and I’m sure they all do get together to talk about stuff like that. The billionaires have class solidarity. Remember that time it came out the biggest 3 software firms had an agreement not to poach talent from each other, keeping wages artificially low?
They’re certainly colluding to screw workers and consumers as much as possible. It benefits them to work together against the working class.
Fascinating! This is after Grindr’s push to try to make them sound more like a networking app. A bunch of ads masquerading as journalism over the past few weeks.
Grindr might not survive in a few years.
