I got fired from Facebook (for having a YouTube channel)

Re:I got fired from Facebook (for having a YouTube channel) by occitan on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @08:14AM (#20808736)

No - not for having a YT channel (per se) but for engaging in communications that FB considered to be a conflict of interest. And probably (as with most firings), a whole whole bunch of other stuff (besides the nominal "reason").

Nonethelsss - my heart goes out to anyone dragged into a "friendly chat with HR" under any circumstances.

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Re:I got fired from Facebook (for having a YouTube channel) by vfc1 on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @09:04AM (#20809098)

He was hilarious as always: he said Facebook wanted him to start presenting himself as an Ex-Facebook Tech Lead and not only an Ex-Google Tech Lead, and the fact that he couldn't because he worked there represented a conflict of interest that benefited Google over Facebook, and so they fired him making it now possible to claim that he is also an ex-Facebook Tech Lead.

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Re:I got fired from Facebook (for having a YouTube channel) by alephnan on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @09:01AM (#20809068)

> No - not for having a YT channel (per se) but for engaging in communications that FB considered to be a conflict of interest.

What was the conflict of interest?

> And probably (as with most firings), a whole whole bunch of other stuff (besides the nominal "reason").

Probably, but not certainly.

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Re:I got fired from Facebook (for having a YouTube channel) by occitan on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @09:54AM (#20809577)

What was the conflict of interest?

Dunno - whatever was running through the HR people's heads.

The whole point is - it wasn't simply for "having a YouTube channel".

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