SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas • Hacker News Board

Re: SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas

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Post by themartorana » Thu, Mar 21, 2013, 7:00 PM UTC

Statement on their website: http://blog.sendgrid.com/sendgrid-statement/

Re: SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas

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Post by untog » Thu, Mar 21, 2013, 7:00 PM UTC

zopticity wrote: post #4

http://imgur.com/5tbXR2c

That tweet was posted in 2009, way before her employment with SendGrid.

Re: SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas

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Post by m4re » Thu, Mar 21, 2013, 7:00 PM UTC

The 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).

Re: SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas

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Post by uncoder0 » Thu, Mar 21, 2013, 7:00 PM UTC

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #12

I'm guessing it was related to her invoking her employer publicly and saying they support her.

I suspect the same thing. I appears that the DDoS started after she claimed they supported her. This could be a coincidence though.

Re: SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas

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Post by tdfx » Thu, Mar 21, 2013, 7:00 PM UTC

tomp wrote: post #8

Although this would seem to be another knee-jerk, exaggerated reaction, and I personally believe that she shouldn't have been fired (and that the first guy shouldn't have been either), we should also consider the SendGrid CEO's position; his company is under attack, might fail, so getting rid of the person whom this attack is targeting seems like the obvious thing to do. I'm guessing that SendGrid will loose some oth…

While the timing would seem to indicate it is a direct reaction to the current shitstorm, I also can't imagine how she could continue with the company as an effective "developer evangelist" after an incident like this.

Re: SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas

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Post by DannoHung » Thu, Mar 21, 2013, 7:00 PM UTC

Goronmon wrote: post #6

DannoHung wrote: post #3

Why were the three previous HN items about this deleted?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416908

Thanks.

Re: SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas

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Post by newnewnew » Thu, Mar 21, 2013, 7:01 PM UTC

liquidise wrote: post #13

zopticity wrote: post #4

http://imgur.com/5tbXR2c

Now that is a truly impressive case of special pleading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_pleading

Actually, that is what they teach at university nowadays in race and gender studies departments, sociology, and other mushy social-sciences. My friends who went to places like Harvard all believe it.

Re: SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas

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Post by anonfunction » Thu, Mar 21, 2013, 7:01 PM UTC

zopticity wrote: post #4

http://imgur.com/5tbXR2c

The more I hear about the story and her unusually controversial twitter history, the more I don't understand what the big deal is.

Re: SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 21, 2013, 7:01 PM UTC

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Re: SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas

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Post by dutchbrit » Thu, Mar 21, 2013, 7:01 PM UTC

sirrocco wrote: post #11

Right 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.

Probably one of the reasons, but mainly bad PR? It's stupid that Playhaven fired a person and that Sendgrid fired a person over this, adds even more bad PR. They might of been better off switching employees?