https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/340906/update-an-agreement-with-monica-cellio?cb=1

Escalated to a lawsuit because they don't know how to use their site and resolve without lawyers. Hell they don't even listen to their community past the vitrol. There are plenty of reasonable responses (unlike the VS Code SantaGate). It is hilarious that they needed to defend against one of their own unpaid moderators who broke no guidelines. Great example of stumbling under your own feet.

They offered her a way to a...

Wow, just off the heels of bad management from Stack Overflow. Now we have the United States attacking a government official (General Soleimani) of a sovereign nation (Iran) in another sovereign nation's (Iraq) international airport. WTF?

That's war. Iran is unified (WOW, days after being split) and crying for war. This is some Call of Duty level shit. You'd never think this would happen outside of a game or movie.

It really does not matter how the terrible the people killed in an airstrike were what matters ...

Good management is open minded and knows how to make sure to keep a situation defused. Adequate explanations do not require justification.

Bad management is closed minded and shows it by making assumptions before knowing what is going on blowing up the situation. Justifying bullshit is terrible management and sows distrust in its own ranks and community.

Root cause: Experience

It is a night and day difference between experienced and inexperienced people. Training helps people get up to speed, policies help to ...

I don't follow meta, but resignations like this and the responses are indicative of where Stack Exchange is going because of bad management.
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/392889/i-am-resigning-as-moderator-on-stack-overflow

You can see where I told you so here: https://www.normansoven.com/post/stackoverflows-handling-of-monica-cellio-situation-is-bad-management

The great moderator exodus, which is opportunity.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/12/21135474/doordash-workers-forced-arbitration-william-alsup

"DoorDash contractors have turned a forced arbitration clause in their contract against their employer, as a federal judge has ordered DoorDash to arbitrate 5,010 labor disputes, potentially costing the company millions in arbitration fees"

Another case of "Ooops, we didn't see that coming" when management tries to shift costs to customers and employees to dissuade lawsuits. Any competent lawyer would have told th...