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SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas
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Re: SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas
#42Please let's just let this topic die. I think I have seen 4 high-ranking HN threads about this already. Probably, this comment of mine is not helping the situation either. sigh.
Re: SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas
#43The way heads are rolling, I wonder if I'm next? I'm the guy in green in the center of the photo (completely oblivious to this whole situation).
Did you notice this whole thing going on while it was happening? Did you hear the jokes? Where these guys obnoxious etc? Or was she?
Re: SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas
#44I really wish that this whole thing could have ended amicably (perhaps with Adria apologizing to the devs [by the way, the guy who was fired has already publicly apologized]). It's too bad that sendgrid had to fire her, I would never wish that somebody had their livlihood taken from them like that, but her job was to be a developer evangelist, which is a job she isn't realistically capable of performing anymore. I wo…
When you double down you stand to lose even more. She played the game, she knew the rules, and she lost.
Re: SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas
#45"@SendGrid supports me" Goodbye Adria. Welcome to your new career as a blogger/muckraker.
Re: SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas
#46I really wish that this whole thing could have ended amicably (perhaps with Adria apologizing to the devs [by the way, the guy who was fired has already publicly apologized]). It's too bad that sendgrid had to fire her, I would never wish that somebody had their livlihood taken from them like that, but her job was to be a developer evangelist, which is a job she isn't realistically capable of performing anymore. I wo…
> (perhaps with Adria apologizing to the devs).
What, exactly, has she to apologize for?
The people in question were speaking like they were in a frat house in direct contravention of a code of conduct they'd agreed to. They had the right to speak.
And Adria had the right to tweet. If they didn't like being publicly outed for saying this stuff, guess what? All they had to do was shut their mouths.
> What if I accidentally say something that she finds offensive? Am I next?
Really? How does that work? You trip over a garbage can and a lewd joke reflexively pops out? How does accidental immature behavior work?
Re: SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas
#47Right now it looks like SendGrid fired her because of the DDoS they suffered a few hours ago. Once you can blackmail a company into firing someone like this .... I think it's dangerous for the company.
> Right now it looks like SendGrid fired her because of the DDoS they suffered a few hours ago. Do you have evidence for this? If it were me, I'd fire her because she caused a huge wave of negativity toward the company. I don't know what an "evangelist" does, but I'm pretty sure this is the opposite of it.
I don't have evidence but the timing speaks for itself - in the middle of a DDoS because of recent events they fire her.
I'm not saying they weren't right in doing so, but it looks like they cave to blackmail.
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#48I feel that all the threats and horrible comments she received are disgusting. I didn't find their joke offensive. But thats irrelevant. She had a right to complain. But not by posting their picture on twitter. Posting that picture was a really rotten thing to do. Its an act of bullying. I can take a picture of anyone and they would have said whatever I put on the caption. And its up to them to prove to the internet…
Amen.
Re: SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas
#49In events like these I'm glad I'm living under protective labor laws and not in the US. That would have forced all parties involved to talk it out like grown-ups instead of resorting to terminating those involved.
Now there is no kind of resolution, but two people are unemployed and two companies are damaged. Nice going.
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#50Given the way this has escalated I'm expecting it to have engulfed the entire civilized world by the end of the week. You Americans are crazy.
We didn't invent sensationalist media.
However trust me that this stress on politically correctness and the way people feel the right to be offended by whatever shit, is really hard to understand from our side of the sea.