"Poly" (from the Greek word
polys) is a word that means "many." Ticks are blood-sucking insects. Combine the two, and you get ...
And now the millennial "I need to be a victim" generation of snowflakes, or at least one group thereof, has lost its collective mind over the notion that an employer had the nerve to tell them to stop discussing political crap on the company intranet and just, like, do their jobs.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/3/22418208/basecamp-all-hands-meeting-employee-resignations-buyouts-implosionI have never heard of the company, but I side with the owners. It's their damned company, so if they don't want employees wasting their time (and the company's bandwidth) being "woke," that's their prerogative. Wake up, people -- you were hired to do a job, to perform a specific function. Do your work, collect your paycheck, and go home to discuss the politics and SJW crap with your wife/husband/significant other/dog/whatever -- on your own time and using your own equipment and bandwidth.
Another employee said they had been thrown by the fact that the founders, after years of telling employees that they were part of an elite chosen few who were good enough to work at Basecamp, would get rid of them so easily.
“They just want to build cool *expletive deleted*it all day,” the employee said. “They don’t want to deal with people, which is something you have to do as a manager … Jason and David just threw us away.”
No, idiot, the founders didn't get rid of anyone or throw anyone away. YOU QUIT! All of you. All because the owners and founders of the company wanted you to stop playing politics at work.