Twitter Android app dev fired: Guess it's official now.

Post by fnordpiglet » Tue, Nov 15, 2022, 2:26 PM UTC

mmustapic wrote: post #189

npteljes wrote: post #182

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>If he fires all the engineers with a bad attitude Where I work it's in the contract that you don't talk shit about the company on social media. I think that's common sense too. I'm sure Elon is an irritating piece of shit, especially as a superior, but shit-flinging online like this is just not something I'd want in my company either.

Well, Elon is the one talking shit about the company. She was, on the other hand, praising the infra, and talking shit only about the CEO.

Post by moistly » Tue, Nov 15, 2022, 4:47 PM UTC

tinus_hn wrote: post #159

moistly wrote: post #148

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> Definitely a career limiting move, if not potentially career ending. She is already receiving job offers, so how could you possibly come to that ridiculous conclusion?

Of course she’s receiving generous offers from the ‘hurr durr Elon bad’ crowd. The career limitation is that most people just aren’t in that crowd. That doesn’t necessarily mean they’re licking Elons boots, it could also mean they don’t care at all or that they are somewhere in the middle. I’m not in a hiring position but if I were I’d avoid her because I don’t want to import drama into my environment.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Nov 15, 2022, 5:08 PM UTC

paxys wrote: post #63

jsnell wrote: post #54

The context here is that the engineer in question challenged Musk's (public) claims about why Twitter is so slow (there's followup tweets in the thread with more detail): https://twitter.com/EricFrohnhoefer/status/15919022854034186... So Musk then fired him with a Tweet: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592186302379982849

Hope the thread is archived somewhere, because these tweets aren't going to stay up for very long. The "free speech absolutist" will see to that.

Post by SauciestGNU » Tue, Nov 15, 2022, 5:53 PM UTC

npteljes wrote: post #196

mmustapic wrote: post #189

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Well, Elon is the one talking shit about the company. She was, on the other hand, praising the infra, and talking shit only about the CEO.

CEO is part of the company.

Post by lazylion2 » Tue, Nov 15, 2022, 6:37 PM UTC

implements wrote: post #178

lazylion2 wrote: post #147

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His posts and account are still up. Free speech does not mean freedom from consequences

That’s a bit of a thought terminating clique, imo. If the only consequence for saying something reasonable but contentious is unpopularity then you have free speech, but if you can be punished (banned from a public platform, or fired from a job) then you don’t. Freedom doesn’t mean “the right to” (that’s “liberty”) - freedom has to be “effectively exercisable”, and that requires limitation on any unjust consequences.