During an “Ask Me Anything” video call with employees that included Chief Executive Officer Mike Cannon-Brookes (who was co-CEO at the time), the staff was told by Atlassian’s chief technology officer that only a small number of employees could lose their jobs in the re-leveling.

“Employees disagreed in the chat, which resulted in Cannon-Brookes angrily interjecting to tell off the people who were complaining,” Puckett said in an opening statement at the hearing. On the company’s internal “Outrage Notification” Slack channel (a play on the “outage notifications” staff receive about technology issues), employees including Unterwurzacher mocked and condemned the comments from Cannon-Brookes, the company’s billionaire co-founder, who had joined the meeting from the headquarters of a basketball team he co-owns, the Utah Jazz.

“What’s up Outragers, just dialing in from my NBA team’s headquarters to yell at the people whose careers I’ve just pummeled,” Unterwurzacher wrote. Atlassian fired her a few days later, saying she had “engaged in acrimonious communications and ad hominem attacks against teammates and colleagues.”

So no one actually called him a rich jerk - that seems to be Atlassian’s own term (!). But she called him out on his acting like an asshole (probably because asshole) and got fired for it.

I just love how this asshole fires a huge amount of employees and then goes on an “ask me anything” and gets all prissy when somebody makes a public and on-point remark about you being a jerk

What did you expect? An applause?