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Re:List of Twitter mute words for your timeline by kortilla on Friday January 24, 2020 @08:20PM (#22144000)
Google just fired a dev who pushed in some pro union messages into a security tool. All it takes is a rubber stamp from another engineer.
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Re:List of Twitter mute words for your timeline by CameronNemo on Friday January 24, 2020 @09:40PM (#22144266)
Those pro union messages were informing employees of their rights, and part of the dev's responsibilities were informing employees of their rights. Wasn't the message also only shown on relevant pages?
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Re:List of Twitter mute words for your timeline by kortilla on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @02:07PM (#22184562)
No, informing employees about labor was not part of the dev’s responsibilities. This employee was not in the HR department and the tool was not for HR-related messages. It was for security warnings.
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Re:List of Twitter mute words for your timeline by dodobirdlord on Friday January 24, 2020 @09:48PM (#22144301)
Part of the justification for firing was that they did an emergency push so that they could push without a code review.
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Re:List of Twitter mute words for your timeline by Jon_Lowtek on Sunday January 26, 2020 @04:03AM (#22151179)
see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21813619
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