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The firing of Victoria may, in fact, be completely justified. But the pure business of firing the head of AMAs (arguably Reddit's highest profile sub) was simply terrible management. Why didn't you know how your business is run? Why didn't you have a transition strategy in place for Victoria's departure? Why didn't she introduce her replacement to her important clients/mods? How is this not business 101?
This absolutely is Business 101. Reddit reeks like a holdover from the worst part of the dotcom bubble that has been propped up for years by spectacular amounts of work from the community.
Clearly none of them have any idea how to run a business, nor conduct appropriate PR, nor protect the brand. It's like a bunch of twenty-somethings, sitting around in their smoke-filled rumpus room wearing "geeks rul3" t-shirts, acting surprised that people expect professionalism.
Any business manager in a real company would have been summarily sacked if they had displayed even half the amateurish incompetence of the Reddit admins.
(Please note their sacking would have involved a formal transition plan, and a public announcement of the transition to maintain trust and brand equity).
There's nothing here!