{"id":114,"date":"2025-12-30T22:55:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T22:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antimattic.net\/?p=114"},"modified":"2025-12-30T22:55:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T22:55:05","slug":"peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antimattic.net\/index.php\/2025\/12\/30\/peace\/","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t hate Automattic (or Matt)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re: <a href=\"https:\/\/antimattic.net\/index.php\/2025\/12\/28\/your-employees-hate-you\/\">Your Employees Hate You<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I left Automattic too. I got fired, and I was wronged. Genuinely wronged in a very unfair way. There are specific folks there who made decisions that hurt my career and mental health badly. I&#8217;m not over it, and I probably won&#8217;t be for a while. It hurts in many ways.<\/p>\n<p>Yet I also have huge admiration and appreciation for Matt and Automattic. I had many great years before this happened. So please don&#8217;t make it look like every current and former Automattician feels this way.<\/p>\n<p>Be specific about real problems or <strong>your own feelings<\/strong> instead of painting everyone as having the same view.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know a SINGLE former Automattician [&#8230;] who has anything good to say about this company.&#8221; Really? Not one? I know plenty of folks who had mixed experiences. Some divisions and teams were great, others were difficult to deal with.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sure the majority of current employees feel exactly the same way.&#8221; Based on what? Your feelings? I&#8217;m still in touch with many former coworkers who are genuinely happy there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Re: Your Employees Hate You I left Automattic too. I got fired, and I was wronged. Genuinely wronged in a very unfair way. There are specific folks there who made decisions that hurt my career and mental health badly. I&#8217;m not over it, and I probably won&#8217;t be for a while. It hurts in many &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/antimattic.net\/index.php\/2025\/12\/30\/peace\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I don&#8217;t hate Automattic (or Matt)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antimattic.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antimattic.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antimattic.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antimattic.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antimattic.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antimattic.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/antimattic.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antimattic.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antimattic.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antimattic.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}