Yesterday evening I sent one of my team members on Discord a message that stated how she's very short but not as short as my ex. Earlier this morning, I tried to message her to inquire if she wanted to participate in working on the MVP, but I discovered that I wasn't able to send her any messages. I right clicked on her profile to check what's going on and appeared that she unfriended me; assuming the worst, I decided to send her a friend request and as predicted, she had blocked me. I then went over to LinkedIn and sent her screenshots to ask her why she blocked me, and then she blocked me there within seconds (very odd since she takes forever to respond there lol).
I have since removed her from my pitch deck and my business license (via government website), as well as permanently banning her from my startup's Discord server. Since she was allegedly already in a tech startup of her own similar to mine in industry/sector, it was a conflict of interest for her to remain in the team anyways. I understand that I have to be professional with others in a business setting, but if she can't even handle an observation that was a bad joke at worst, she's not gonna succeed with her own startup even if it is not-for-profit. There's a lot of assholes out there in the workforce that are gonna say much ruder things than I ever would within a professional environment.
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