alt Hacker NewsI 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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u_fucking_dork • today at 12:45 AM
Opinions are my employers, and they are also bastards.
Bold and silly of you to even reveal where you work tbh.
> 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.