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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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CMV: reddit could be doing an excellent job with the way they handled letting go of Victoria

Reddit execs have been taking a bit image hit over the last few days. The issues are numerous but it seems like the catalyst for the blackout was the way they let go of Victoria without involving the reddit community or communicating with them, and seemingly having no plan of action on how to fill the gap in her responsibilities. 

I believe that perfectly acceptable reasons could have caused this course of action and to not accept that possibility and start a blackout and/or reddit exodus is irrational. 

For example - a few years ago my company fired a VP quickly without having a real good plan on how to bridge the gap before we found a replacement. This individual had referred to another manager(semi-openly gay) as "the faggot" in a small meeting. We simply could not tolerate that behavior so we fired him the next day. It wasn't what was best for our bottom line, but it was best for the environment and culture that our company believes in. We didn't feel it was in the best interest of telling the whole company the reasoning for termination and several on that team were very upset by the clearly abrupt and unplanned separation - for several people their impression was "management doesn't have their shit together". 

I could imagine several scenarios where Victoria should be terminated quickly and it would not be appropriate to give a reason publicly. I would even say that reddit has been incredibly professional by continuing to remain silent on her termination even when facing the vastly damaging public backlash.
gpt
It's unlikely, but possible, that she sexually harassed someone, and had to be let go immediately. And yes, it would be professional to not comment on that publicly.

But even if it was due to sexual harassment or another HR violation, they could have quickly contacted the mods of AMA and other people that are about to be hugely impacted by the layoff. They didn't do so, which suggests they didn't know or didn't care about that impact.