In 8 months at Microsoft, I learned these things

Re:In 8 months at Microsoft, I learned these things by coldtea on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @04:32PM (#5870542)

>Publishing something that HR/PR can consider slander under your real name while being junior developer is not a recipe for stable employment. These guys tend to freak out over minor stuff like that.

That's to me the equivalent of saying: "sitting on the front of the bus, as a black person, is a recipe for trouble".

Not in the sense that it's racist, of course.

But that it trivialises a problematic situation, and asks for caution from the (potential) victim.

It's not what he did that's problematic, it's the very notion that a company would consider firing someone over sharing something as innocent and truthful as this.

And that we should somehow "accept it" and just "be cautious" not to have this happen to us.

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Re:In 8 months at Microsoft, I learned these things by sliverstorm on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @04:54PM (#5870671)

I think your parent is just suggesting something like publishing under a pseudonym, which doesn't sound like trivializing the problem.

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Re:In 8 months at Microsoft, I learned these things by venomsnake on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @05:26PM (#5870863)

Okay - I will elaborate a bit. Fortune 500 companies tend to be trigger happy lately and not backing their employees. You saw what happened with the #dealwithit guy. And that was for sentiment the whole company backs because it just happened to be true.

If Snowden did not leave the US so fast we would all agree that this would have been stupid. Not the leak but not taking the basic precautions.

Also he is not having personal issues or being harassed from what I read - so the situation is not a civil or worker's right problem that would require that kind of whistleblowing.

It is a rant with proper place on thedailywtf with good privacy protection.

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Re:In 8 months at Microsoft, I learned these things by hammock on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @06:32PM (#5871143)

> Fortune 500 companies tend to be trigger happy lately and not backing their employees.

All the more reason to speak his mind rather than try and feign some sort of loyalty to the man, which will never be returned.

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Re:In 8 months at Microsoft, I learned these things by genwin on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @08:49PM (#5871688)

Better to speak one's mind anonymously to avoid becoming unemployable in the process.

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Re:In 8 months at Microsoft, I learned these things by andrewflnr on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @04:46PM (#5870620)

Even if someone is going to be brave and try to change things, it's good if they know what they're getting into, rather than just blunder into it. Although, blundering might have it's positive points in this scenario.

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