Although it's obviously the right conclusion that she can no longer function a evangelist, I find it hard to believe that she now has zero value for the company. You don't completely discard a previously valued employee over one fuck-up. Unless either that person is utterly useless in any other capacity, there is previous history or they are completely unwilling to accept that they made a mistake.
But even in those cases you would normally give someone the option to resign. Or the customary "mutual decision to part ways".
What value to you suppose she had at Sendgrid when she fucked up her current position, "In light of the events over the last 48+ hours, it has become obvious that her actions have strongly divided the same community she was supposed to unite. As a result, she can no longer be effective in her role at SendGrid."? Developer? Janitor? Office Manager? What?
People get fired all the time over one fuckup...some are colossal and some...not so much. What are you missing?
there is a might big difference between one "fuck-up" and one royal of a "fuck-up". This falls in the later camp.
Perhaps they were hoping the person in question would have realized they should have taken that action on their own. Considering the past activities of this person I highly suspect they will feel wronged on many counts.
Although it's obviously the right conclusion that she can no longer function a evangelist, I find it hard to believe that she now has zero value for the company. You don't completely discard a previously valued employee over one fuck-up. Unless either that person is utterly useless in any other capacity, there is previous history or they are completely unwilling to accept that they made a mistake.
But even in those cases you would normally give someone the option to resign. Or the customary "mutual decision to part ways".