Re:Twitter engineer: I thought I’d been hacked. It turned ou...
by bsder on Friday December 02, 2022 @02:25PM
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> It's great the author is fine wasting his weekend working on changes to a verification system that was launched for only a few days, but some of us have family and friends we like to spend time with.
No, it's great that the author helped out a colleague. The fact that it benefited Twitter is secondary.
Helping out your colleagues (who are now all over new companies as they've all been fired from Twitter) is how you build your network, get your next job, get people to give you nice recommendations, etc.
Corporations are amoral and greedy and should not be helped unless they are helping you, but that doesn't mean you should piss on everything and everyone around you either.
No, it's great that the author helped out a colleague. The fact that it benefited Twitter is secondary.
Helping out your colleagues (who are now all over new companies as they've all been fired from Twitter) is how you build your network, get your next job, get people to give you nice recommendations, etc.
Corporations are amoral and greedy and should not be helped unless they are helping you, but that doesn't mean you should piss on everything and everyone around you either.