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More reasons I'm leaving Mozilla

My legendary tableflip, part 2! Part 1 here: https://storify.com/christi3k/yesterday-i-started-talking-about-why-i-m-leaving-

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  1. The fact that my tweet storm is drawing attention is not of my own manufacture. It's because what I'm saying is resonating with many.

  2. All of these issues? I have brought up them up internally multiple times, multiple ways, in multiple channels.

  3. I played by the rules they told me to play by over and over again.

  4. Nothing improved. Worse yet, it hurt my professional and social standing in the organization.

  5. Say it's true I'm not qualified to do my job or a bad fit for the culture. You don't let folks like that waste away, rot and fester.

  7. Mozilla, and I suspect many others orgs, find themselves in crises often as a result of failure to address important issues when they arise.

  8. There's a perception by some that speaking publicly about this stuff will hurt efforts to make change internally.

  9. (I know this because I have heard it before and a few of you have said as much to me in the last 24 hours.)

  10. I don't know if that's true. I no longer have the mental and emotional bandwidth to make such calculations.

  11. What I do know is that no one was listening closely enough to be moved to action when I used internal channels.

  13. If enough of you join in and voice your concerns, eventually someone in charge will have to listen.

  14. If you're reading all this and you're Mozilla staff and it's making you sad or angry, there are things you can do.

  15. Ask your manager to fund an @outreachy intern next term. (It's a very cost-effective program from which we get great hires)

  16. Ask our head of HR and our head of Operations when we're going to start taking diversity + inclusion seriously.

  17. Ask when we're going to create and support a conflict resolution process.

  18. Ask for a careful evaluation and reconsideration about how we use alcohol at our events.

  19. Be mindful of when your teammate doesn't get a tshirt that fits or a meal that's as good as yours and say something.

  20. If you care about the open web, think carefully if we're really building the best one we can when not everyone can be involved.

  21. If one of your co-workers has just be re-orged, check in with them and make sure they are okay and see if they need anything.

  22. Ask your manager what they are doing to overcome unconscious bias, esp in hiring and performance evals.

  23. If you participate in TRIBE, pay careful attention to it's complete lack of recognition of structural power dynamics.

  24. Also carefully consider how much it might be based on oppressive methodologies and how that will affect you and others.

  25. Instead of TRIBE, consider asking to use your training budget for something else, like a conflict resolution course.

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