15 Jul 2020
Open Dental Software Response
5yFrom the Open Dental CEO:
I have met with some of my team and decided to comment on this post on behalf of Open Dental and our employees.
The accusation of pornography viewing at work needs to be addressed, I feel terrible that this incorrect information was posted about a member of our staff. This simply is not true. Fortunately, more than one person was able to see this event as it happened from the aisle (two employees and myself), and there was evidence left on the computer of what was being viewed that exonerated the accused. It was not even PG-13, I would let my two ten-year-old children watch this content.
The engineering manager’s computer screen was visible from the aisle, but at the angle it may have appeared that a woman was undressed, when that was not the case. After review, it was a woman in a tan tank top playing ‘League of Legends’ on a video feed, and there is just nothing wrong with that. This person making the report could not provide any additional details that would suggest our investigation was incorrect. It was a stream of a ‘professional’ video gamer playing a video game, and the employee was clocked out on lunch watching it. It was thoroughly investigated, but perhaps the details did not make it back to this employee in the right way. I will work with Human Resources to change our policy to provide a clearer response. We do not normally provide details of resolution of these types of issues, but the reputation of the accused is important in this case. We would have promptly terminated the employee if the accusation had been true.
I also assure you the Engineering Manager is a solid worker and works significantly more than ‘3 hour days’. An important part of his job is walking around to talk to each engineer.
Without going into detail, here we have a smart, hardworking engineer coming out of school and not having the perspective to see the work we are doing here in a larger sense. Stability is more important than following the latest trend, and what is taught at the local university is not always what works best in practice for every business. Open Dental has seen greater that 25% year over year growth for 17 years straight, and it is not because we are selling a bad product. I have worked in other engineering groups writing code and this is just a great team, the best I have seen. The experience software engineers get here is valuable and I for one appreciate every employee we have working here.
Nathan