A Twitter engineer who created cartoons poking fun at his own company was fired
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Re: A Twitter engineer who created cartoons poking fun at his own company was fired
#2This is to be expected. Elon wants to say whatever he wants. He wants his friends and associates to be able to say what they want. The rest of you all... No, do as you're told. Note that he bought Twitter, not you.
Re: A Twitter engineer who created cartoons poking fun at his own company was fired
#3>He wrote that after he tweeted a cartoon last year, Twitter HR asked him to take it down, along with one he had posted internally.
I do not understand the perceived right some people think they have to publicly harm the entity that is paying them. A private company is paying you to make them money and you accepted the role because you thought it was the most money you could make. If they decide that you have gone out of their way to create PR/money problems for them then of course they will/should let you go.
Re: A Twitter engineer who created cartoons poking fun at his own company was fired
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Re: A Twitter engineer who created cartoons poking fun at his own company was fired
#5"Don't bite the hand which feeds you"
It's not rocket science.
Re: A Twitter engineer who created cartoons poking fun at his own company was fired
#6This is the same person who did comics at Google. Their work was a highlight during my time there. Google even used their comics for basic employee training.
I’m surprised folks say that we can’t be critical of own employer. Our employers are not lords or kings. We choose to work for them and can replace them.
Re: A Twitter engineer who created cartoons poking fun at his own company was fired
#7>He wrote that after he tweeted a cartoon last year, Twitter HR asked him to take it down, along with one he had posted internally. I do not understand the perceived right some people think they have to publicly harm the entity that is paying them. A private company is paying you to make them money and you accepted the role because you thought it was the most money you could make. If they decide that you have gone ou…
I worked at IBM years back. If there's one thing that binds current and former employees together it was the shared stitch & bitch about the company's way of doing things.
That would frequently happen in large public slack channels and to my knowledge (first and second hand) nobody was ever punished for that kind of talk. However, that was internal, between employees. Often it was about frustrations with how the company was run, sometimes using satire.
If that sort of thing happened in front of a client (which I never saw personally), I firmly believe that person would rightly be shown the door. It's one thing to complain about your company's problems internally, it's another to publish them.
Re: A Twitter engineer who created cartoons poking fun at his own company was fired
#8Publicly insulting the company you work for will lead to immediate termination almost anywhere.
Not sure what the news is here.
Re: A Twitter engineer who created cartoons poking fun at his own company was fired
#9This is the same person who did comics at Google. Their work was a highlight during my time there. Google even used their comics for basic employee training. I’m surprised folks say that we can’t be critical of own employer. Our employers are not lords or kings. We choose to work for them and can replace them.
> I’m surprised folks say that we can’t be critical of own employer. Our employers are not lords or kings.
No one is saying you can't be critical of your own employer. They are saying there are repercussions to being critical and loss of employment is a common one which should be expected.
> We choose to work for them and can replace them.
They choose to employ us and can replace us.
Re: A Twitter engineer who created cartoons poking fun at his own company was fired
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