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Re: That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job

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Post by bsder »

constantly wrote: post #4

I 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…

> I 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.

OP does mention that they were with VMWare only by acquisition.

Do I think that OP should have done this? No. Do I think they deserve to be fired over this? No. This is the standard chastise them for being an idiot and get back to work.

The problem here was a high-ranking Federal bureaucrat (USAF Chief Software Officer) got his knickers in a twist and rattled VMWare management who should have told him to go pound sand.

And, personally, even though I don't find the OP sympathetic, I'm glad this story came out as the bureaucrat in question should absolutely be named and shamed so other companies won't capitulate to him being a snot. Anybody with skin that thin shouldn't be allowed any amount of power, ever.

Re: That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job

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Post by grimgoldgo »

Demotolo wrote: post #114
grimgoldgo wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are allowed to discuss workplace conditions. That's like, protected concerted activity 101. If the business was uncomfortable with their treatment of their employees being public, maybe that activity wasn't ethical.

What? While I have an internal meeting I would NOT assume someone is life tweeting this.

An internal meeting is a much broader category than "a disciplinary meeting to issue a verbal warning from hr".

Re: That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job

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Post by wiseowise »

bitwize wrote: post #145
wiseowise wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What’s your point?

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> If you cannot deal with people bringing their true identities to the job, you are free to choose another industry to work in.

I don’t know, looks like VMWare found another way to deal with it.

Re: That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job

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Post by [deleted] »

galkk wrote: post #110
spondylosaurus wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Genuine question, though (and not "asking just to make a rhetorical point because I've already decided on an answer"): is that really the case? I know the boilerplate "tweets do not represent the views of my employer" thing is a cliche at this point, but I always assumed it was at least partly true. If you're not tweeting directly from AcmeCORP's socials, wouldn't there be some understanding that you're not a direct…

It was literally written in 2nd sentence of the post I was attending KubeCon on behalf of my then-employer, VMware.

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Re: That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job

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Post by 0cf8612b2e1e »

grimgoldgo wrote: post #74
parineum wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you read the rest of my comment, I don't actually have a problem with accusing people of war crimes. I think it's assinine to think one could do so and hope to continue to be paid by those people though. I would think that someone so ready to stand on this moral high ground wouldn't want that money but I guess when it actually comes to backing up her morals, she'll take the money instead.

So, free speech doesn't extend to criticism of the government? People should lose their jobs because they said mean words on Twitter?

Aren’t most a Americans at-will employees? You can be fired for being too ugly, let alone things which might damage a company relationship.

Re: That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job

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Post by afiori »

I do not understand what the closign remark is meant to say

> And when he publicly resigned in 2021 he worried about how in the future “China has the drastic advantage of population over the U.S.”

Given its place it feels like it has a very clear subtext, but I cannot figure out what it could be.

Re: That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job

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Post by Apocryphon »

wiseowise wrote: post #173
bitwize wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> If you cannot deal with people bringing their true identities to the job, you are free to choose another industry to work in. I don’t know, looks like VMWare found another way to deal with it.

They dealt with problematic tweets, not an "edgy fursona."

Re: That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job

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Post by gordian-not »

galkk wrote: post #80

That person should've been fired, and it happened. Good riddance. So what did I see "Fuck you" for slide where army officer praises Kubernetes and calls to join them. Then accusing him for blood on his hands. Then also connecting inability to negotiate better severance package when firing happened with Trump era... My opinion always is: if in any shape or form your posts are related to work (e.g. that person was twee…

If you’re truly curious and a Google employeee you should open moma and see how toxic she really was and how she was handled with kid gloves
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