We should reach 1000 posts before the weekend!
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On top of my head, I can’t remember anyone being dismissed with cause being thanked and acknowledged for their work in places where have worked. Once management resort to firing someone, the relationship has often been strained for some time. The employee is likely just shown the door.
For dismissals without cause (layoffs) I take it as the norm that you thank people for their contributions.
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Wow is this thread a waste of time and cloud storage space. Internet at its finest.
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In defense of this thread, even the ultra-focused cycling community has a need for the occasional bit of drama. Some of us don’t have time for Netflix and training. I really hope all parties involved are ok, but this thread is a nice departure from “my Z2 is better than your z2” and “when is workout levels V2 coming.”
Look, even you’re commenting!
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Because it wouldn’t be the Internet without the grammar police. 
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This thread has it all. All we need is to start commenting on measurement systems
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how does one measure whether a thread has it all?
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Easy, metric. LOL
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In metric, of course
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Having directly participated in 100’s of for cause terminations and been involved after the fact on 100’s more, it is very very common for the behind closed doors reality to be the fired employee is the worst human ever and the public message to be “Joe has decided to resign to pursue other interests and we wish him the best and thank him for his service.” And the higher up the org chart the terminated employee is, the more likely they get the option to resign in lieu of getting frog marched out the front door.
Look at today’s news. The CEO of NBC got termed over the weekend for sexual harassment and the company got him to issue a public apology and admit he was wrong. Go back to Friday’s business news and read about the Bud Light boycott causing marketing person who is “taking a leave of absence.” That’s what severance pay is for - get a release of claims and get the PR issue taken care of. Firing someone like Chad and going on YouTube to say it was not voluntary is amateur hour.
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That’s this weeks podcast topic.
Speaking of firing, Tucker out at Fox News and no final show
Edit: Flagged for just stating the news? Lol
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And, after he participated in costing Fox $750,000,000 here is part of the announcement
“We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,”
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Whoops you got me…just drinking coffee after a long 4 days at Sea Otter, 29 mile xc race and 7 hour drive home.
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Totally and that is what should be expect, however what you say to the public, if you are going say anything, should only positive, and would (may) have stopped a lot of this thread, PR and HR are not linked
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I’ve resisted posting so far, but the more I think about the announcement the more dissapointed I am.
No doubt about it Chad helped create TR what it is now, I genuinely cannot think of a reason why he wouldn’t be allowed to quietly resign with a “Thanks Chad for everything” from TR.
From the outside it seems very poor (and vindictive) from TR 
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There is a lot of posts here and I didn’t scan the entire thread, but I think that people are speculating wildly on chad being fired as an employee and not as a founder. It’s probably more likely that instead of wild misconduct, this is a purely business/intellectual property dispute. Chad was a co-founder and likely had significant ownership stake in trainer road. Nate has additional power as the ceo, and seems very driven by the tech nature of trainer road. I could definitely see a situation where Nate wants trainer road to be acquired by a larger company. If Chad doesn’t agree with that decision, it’s possible he has enough ownership stake to complicate that. Additionally, since he is the creator of trainer roads workout catalog, he may have a legitimate intellectual property claim to their entire database if the company was not properly structured to specifically prevent that. IE, Chad might legally be wearing the pants and TR the entity is basically a podcast and forum.
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Maybe a cultural thing. Where I work that is usually only reserved for the upper ranks of management in private or public organizations. For regular employees it’s getting shown the door. But I am not really aware whether Chad was co-owner, manager or just an employee.
I agree that it was amateur hour.
Best news of the year? I mean it could have been fox news closing business, but that would be greedy
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