Well played SendGrid, well played. Evangelist she was not.
SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas
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#32Whether you agree with what she did, she was their "developer evangelist", and there is no chance she'll ever be able to effectively do that job for them ever again.
Or any company for that matter. She's alienated herself among the developer community at this point.
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#33This post contains no more information than did the other deleted threads. The past threads were deleted because HN mods think that the announcement is fake. This Mashable story adds no new reporting.
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#34Although 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…
It does seem like a knee jerk reaction, but speaking just from an HR perspective she failed quite spectacularly in her own duties and responsibilities to her employer, given that her job description involves public relations.
Clearly, her tweets did not bring about the positive effect for SendGrid PR that she might have expected. Even worse, no matter what happens now there is a smoking crater where all the positive feels about SendGrid used to be, whether they retain her or not, and she's the one who knocked the meteor out of orbit.
The whole situation is bad but I don't see how she'd ever be able to continue in the PR role for SendGrid... so what do they do with her otherwise? And why didn't they convince her to (or allow her to) resign?
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#35Whether you agree with what she did, she was their "developer evangelist", and there is no chance she'll ever be able to effectively do that job for them ever again.
Or for anyone else for that matter. Regardless of what anyone thinks about the situation, I feel like any company would have to be pretty crazy to willing attach their name to hers.
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#36Right 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.
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#37Right 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.
Disagree. She was an evangelist for the company. Her reputation was tarnished whether or not you disagree with what she did. If you're an evangelist PR is everything, with this happening she could no longer perform her job. It'd be like a circus juggler losing his arms or a pilot losing his ability to fly.
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#38Given 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.
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#40http://imgur.com/5tbXR2c
I don't understand what's wrong with this. This is quite literally the definition of racism in a sociological context: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism#Sociological. You're going to need to disprove a lot of social science before you tackle this definition.