On the day of the Far Right take over of the US Congress, a Jewish Github employee wrote to colleagues in Washington and warned them to be careful of Nazis.

Apparently someone in Github was furious that the ‘N’ word had been used to describe Far Right protestors trying to shut down a democratic election result and complained to HR. HR, bless their little jackboots, agreed. First, they reprimanded him and then two days later he was fired.

It is not clear why, but suddenly someone Github realised that firing a Jew for warning people to be careful of Nazis might not be the sort of thing a modern organisation might want to do. Sure, in 1930s Germany, it might have been rather fashionable, but 90 years later siding with the Nazis against the Jews is not something any sane PR department would recommend.

Rather than working it out why for itself, Github hired an independent law firm to investigate the termination, and found that "significant mistakes were made".

Really? And you needed a lawyer to tell you that?

GitHub CEO Nat Friedman in an internal message to employees on January 16 the investigation reached the conclusion that significant mistakes were made that were not consistent with its internal practices or the judgement we expect from our leaders.

He said the company would be issuing a public apology on its blog this weekend. The company's head of HR, Carrie Olesen, is resigning. Olesen came from Microsoft and in an interview she gave last year she said she was “ addicted to partnering in effective cultural change”.

“No matter what the change is, you’re going to see people divided into three different buckets: green, blue, and red. When you engage the red dots, you amplify all the things that may be wrong about the idea, and all of a sudden, those blue dots are listening to those arguments. It increases your resistance, and so the trick as a leader is to engage those green dots and to just put those blinders on for a short period of time.”

We are not sure if Jews and Nazis are blue or red dots.

GitHub COO Erica Brescia said: "To the employee we wish to say publicly: we sincerely apologise."