We’ve all worked with these people. Nice to see the company just get rid of one for once.
That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job
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#52Really? On first meeting they brought a witness who sort of livewteeted the meeting? This is so weird, I wonder what is going on with author that they dont see by themselves what they are doing here? Feels like a case of totally missing any sort of self-reflection.
That’s terminal case of social media brain if I’ve ever seen one.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I thought the same thing. Like, yeah, the guy was being thin-skinned and over reactive but publicly accusing your employer's client of war crimes should get you fired. If you're upset that your employer is dealing with these people, quit. Work for someone you don't hate.
> publicly accusing your employer's client of war crimes What other factual statements should you not be allowed to make about your employer's clients?
I feel that it's kind of odd that you question this. Acting with professionalism isn't all that hard.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I thought the same thing. Like, yeah, the guy was being thin-skinned and over reactive but publicly accusing your employer's client of war crimes should get you fired. If you're upset that your employer is dealing with these people, quit. Work for someone you don't hate.
> publicly accusing your employer's client of war crimes What other factual statements should you not be allowed to make about your employer's clients?
Setting aside the gigantic leap and cognitive dissonance required to imply that a short-serving Chief Software Office is somehow a war criminal and answering your actual question: Avoiding factual statements that have to do with race, religion, politics, sexual orientation, and gender is a good start.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
*She, I believe, but absolutely. I'd have never thought to bring a witness to that sort of meeting. Keeping that one in my back pocket just in case.
The flag was likely HR. HR is the sort of thing you never interact with unless something's up.
Ha, yes! It's a perfect time to bring your own witness, honestly... otherwise HR gets to be judge, jury, and executioner :P
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#56I would have fired this person as soon as humanly possible for basically (actually) telling customers of the company to go F themselves, and making horribly insensitive and inappropriate jokes at their expense. imho the point of this article seems to be to tell the story where big bad VMWare or the target of VMWare’s employee’s ire stomped on poor VMWare employee, but I think it makes the employee look bad. I would a…
It's also super unnecessary to tweet like that. No one wins.
Reminded me of that bar scene from Trainspotting where he throws a pint into the crowd from the balcony above, then goes down asking which idiot threw the pint...
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is saying "the blood never washes off" the hands of this DoD employee really a personal attack? I mean, it certainly seems like a consistent and reasonably widely held belief that military industrial complex jobs cost lives. There's of course the opposite opinion too. I'm not interested in trying to demonstrate that one opinion is right or wrong, just that like, is this really an attack ?
Considering the previous tweet said "fuck you", yes it is an attack.
"Fuck you" has so many different tones, and is so ubiquitous. It can be playful, jocular, intense, deadly serious, all over the place. Fuck you is not, by default, a personal attack, imo.
It's also almost certainly culturally different on different coasts, online, in person, etc. A tweet is like, nothing.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
> publicly accusing your employer's client of war crimes What other factual statements should you not be allowed to make about your employer's clients?
I feel that it's kind of odd that you question this. Acting with professionalism isn't all that hard.
Neither is not bombing civilians, yet here we are.
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#59What this post really highlights is the complete lack of ethics that prevails in US business hiring practices.
All these clauses are coercive. It should be impossible to sign away what should be rights.
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#60If you publicly make personal attacks against employees of your employer's biggest customer, isn't firing you a completely reasonable thing for your employer to do?
Tell me again how corporate capitalism is compatible with personal freedoms, then.