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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

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Post by wildrhythms »

tssva wrote: post #9
kakali wrote: post #6

This 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.

I think it was clear the person you're replying to is saying that the repercussions for being critical toward your employer is what makes it effectively 'not allowed'.

Re: A Twitter engineer who created cartoons poking fun at his own company was fired

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Post by PicassoCTs »

hoono wrote: post #10

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If one got no skills, social ones may keep you afloat in any more complex hierarchical organization. And its part of the village psyche since the dawn of time. Having two plans, two bosses, two options or opinions, steers some deep dread instinctive fear of infighting and the tribe breaking apart in some.

Its a retardation, but a understandable one, though those suffering from it, do subtract from whatever they are part.

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Post by chrisco255 »

tssva wrote: post #9
kakali wrote: post #6

This 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.

> They choose to employ us and can replace us.

It's really a mutual agreement, innit? The relative power in the situation is merely a supply / demand equation, for talent / jobs.

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Post by simplotek »

tssva wrote: post #9
kakali wrote: post #6

This 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.

> 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.

Why do you feel that the expected outcome of being critical is being punished instead of addressing the root causes of these issues? I mean how do you expect problems to be pointed out and addressed?

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Post by Barrin92 »

fasthands9 wrote: post #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 ou…

maybe he was emulating the chief twit, who continues to denigrate the company even after he bought it

or are we already ad the mad king stage where everyone is forced to laugh when Elon posts a bad meme about twitter but if one of the peasants makes the same joke you get fed to the dragons?

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Post by willcipriano »

jleyank wrote: post #2

This 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.

So business as usual at Twitter then? I still recall the chorus of the "private platform" folks, you can even go into my comments, I warned them this would be the outcome.

Re: A Twitter engineer who created cartoons poking fun at his own company was fired

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Post by pvaldes »

comprev wrote: post #5

"Don't bite the hand which feeds you" It's not rocket science.

I think that the work of this employee was to bite this hand. A company can have good reasons to allow it internally as a social control measure.

Kings used jesters as a way out to break tense moments and fights between their subjects; also to read the social undercurrents and detect hits against them.

The jester was also uniquely allowed a free card pass to transgress and jump over the rules. The fool jumping over the rules and providing comical relief reduces the desire to the rest of employees to break the same rules. They can fantasize about doing it, without actually doing it or suffering consequences. They can be also educated about the consequences as a moral of the history.

The cons of the job is that if the king is demoted, the king's personal buffon became useless, and first candidate to exemplary beheading or, in this case, being fired.

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