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    clearly it's been a bungled mess. I don't think they expected this reaction and now there's a huge problem. It still helps to take some of the emotional charge out of it all. It's exhausting for everyone.
    – user310756
    Commented Sep 30, 2019 at 19:12
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    ... and the fact that they didn't expect this sort of backlash makes it worse. I mean, it was obvious that if a extremely prolific and popular mod gets fired then people will have questions? How unaware do you have to be with your core users to completely miss that?
    – Script47
    Commented Sep 30, 2019 at 20:41
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    SE is living in Indiana, where you don't have to have a reason to fire someone.
    – user474678
    Commented Oct 10, 2019 at 20:26
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    @nvoigt, according to your profile, you live in Germany. There, you need a reason to fire someone. In the US, in 49 of the 50 states, workers don't have contracts, and you don't need a reason to fire someone. You can't fire someone for a discriminatory reason (race, age, ethnicity, religion, etc.), but you can fire someone for literally any other reason in the US. Sometimes you can make a case that a company didn't follow its own termination procedures, but usually a fired worker has no recourse whatsoever in the US.
    – user142148
    Commented Oct 22, 2019 at 13:19