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Re:Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-shar... by ehnto on Monday April 27, 2026 @02:10PM (#47925142)
Some on this forum will be working for companies with conflicts of interest on the topic, and if an employees words were construed to be the opinions of the company that could be bad for that person.
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Re:Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-shar... by sillysaurusx on Monday April 27, 2026 @02:34PM (#47925428)
I was once almost fired for saying a little too much in an HN comment about pentesting. Being dragged into an office and given a dressing-down for posting was quite traumatic.

The central issue (or so they claimed) was that people might misconstrue my comment as representing the company I was at.

So yeah, I don’t understand why people are making fun of this. It’s serious.

On the other hand, they were so uptight that I’m not sure “opinions are my own” would have prevented it. But it would have been at least some defense.

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Re:Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-shar... by girvo on Monday April 27, 2026 @05:50PM (#47927834)
> On the other hand, they were so uptight that I’m not sure “opinions are my own” would have prevented it.

In my experience it didn't matter at all, they considered "you work for us, its known you work for us, therefore your opinions reflect on us".

Absolute nonsense, they don't pay me for 24 hours of the day. I told them where they can stick it (politely) and got a new job.

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Re:Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-shar... by sillysaurusx on Monday April 27, 2026 @09:18PM (#47929405)
Good on you. I’m happy to hear you got out of that kind of environment. It’s soul-draining.

Also a relief to hear that other people had to deal with this nonsense. I was afraid the reaction would be “there’s no way that happened,” since at the time I could hardly believe it either.

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Re:Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-shar... by saagarjha on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @04:40AM (#47931906)
Most people are paid for 24 hours of the day, unfortunately.
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Re:Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-shar... by u_fucking_dork on Monday April 27, 2026 @08:45PM (#47929150)
Opinions are my employers, and they are also bastards.

Bold and silly of you to even reveal where you work tbh.

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