[HN] I Posted Myself Out of a Job
[HN] I Posted Myself Out of a Job
The year was 2019, the place San Diego. I was attending KubeCon on behalf of my then-employer, VMware. Kubecon is the Kubernetes Conference; If you don’t know what Kubernetes is don’t worry about it. It’s just a computers. I tended to tweet a lot at conferences, as was the style at the time. Any pa...
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On one hand, those posts were way out of line as a professional representative of a company talking to one of their employer's clients.
On the other hand, fuck Nic Chiallan for repeatedly threatening legitimate critics of the US Government with "DoD Lawyers" for using their protected first amendment rights. That's actual government tyranny, or at least a pathetic attempt at such.
9Yep, Challan is an absolute POS but that isn't the issue here.
The person took very public shots at not only a client of their company but the host of the event they were at. Once called on it by their boss they doubled down and wouldn't even commit to not doing it again.
From my seat that wouldn't take much if any outside pressure to have them sacked.
5For reals. This person sounds insufferable, I would have fired them too.
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Great read!
2I not going to create an account there just to be able to read that.
2I didn’t have to? Did you click “read more”?
4Yeah I just had to click the (albeit tiny) Read More link to expand the rest of the article. No account necessary.
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