Topic awaiting preservation: Microsoft fires staff because of a blog entry: even micr. wants G5s!

this story is a must read. microsoft fires a mac fan
it was on SLASHDOT.
read the employees blog entry
and the following one

"Don't bite the hand that feeds you"?

Surely, one can argue that this is overreacting. However, it's not quite a smart thing to ridicule your employer. Openly.

I don't see how he's ridiculing his employer. He's simply acknowledging the presence of Macs on the Micro$oft campus.

Hmmm... this must be how M$ comes up with ideas for the Longhorn interface...

btw, isn't microsoft already a part owner of mac?

I don't see in what the blog entry and the photo of ~20 G5 being shipped in MS offices is a surprise a "bite" or a mockery. MS does some softwares on MAC, so they DO need some MAC to work on, what is the problem ? Obviously MS managers doesn't share my point of view. However I don't have a copy of the blogger's contract so I can't arguee about the legality of the action taken by MS.

mas: Yes, MS holds some actions in Apple.

Mathieu "POÏ" HENRI

It's not about this guy criticizing MS or them buying Macs; I'm sure MS has been buying Mac computers for very, very long time. This guy's running around taking pictures of the inside of a private company and then posting them on the internet, which means he actually is a notable security risk. I would have fired him too. Why should a company like MS feel the need to take chances with some temp-picture-poster when there are plenty of other (possibly more trustable) prospective employees out there?

[Cell 1303]

He wont get any pity from me, I burned a year or three of my life with AOL Time Warner and if I had done the same thing during my tenure there, I would expect the same result. Free speech has consequences. Perhaps Micro$oft has higher standards of conduct for their Full-Time Temp's.

^^^love that sig!

Actually the guys running aorund taking photos of the outside of a private company. What he's taking photos of is the inside of a truck. He mention that he works in the MS Print Shop, but that was it...he didn't mention which one (there is more than one), he didn't take a photo of the building itself, he didn't take a photo of anything inside the building, any personell, any security measures, nothing. Just a truck. Is microsoft that obsessed with corporate espionage that they can't afford for a photo to be seen of the inside of private shipping company's truck?

personally I don't see what the big deal is. Just like Skaarjj said: "What he's taking photos of is the inside of a truck."

What's the big deal? He works in a print shop and once being in the print industry I know that if you are going to make up prints, Mac's are what you use. I don't really see anything that downgrades M$ in anyway nor posses a security threat. Kind of silly me thinks...

Later,

C:\


~Binary is best~

It probably was a straight out breach of his contract. Maybe his contract specified no recording devices on the property whatsoever.... and there he is obviously bringing a camera to work.

I doubt it was the actual blog entry that got him fired... but more the implications of the other damage he could or could be doing.

Jason

i don't really think that this was fixed in his contract
however, i will continue reading his blog, maybe he will post some more detailed infos