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Microsoft Fires Mac Fan For Blog Photo
From /. :
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"Microsoft has fired a full-time temp employee after it discovered that the employee posted in his blog a photo and story concerning Microsoft's purchase of what looks to be around 18 G5s.
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http://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclect...icrosoft_.html
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"Microsoft fired the blogger, despite an offer to take the posting down. Note that this is not a free speech issue, even though the blog was hosted on a non-company server, because Microsoft is not, yet, the government. But it does present several other interesting issues, including that of the trade-off between the bad publicity that comes from the firing and whatever bad results follow when employees feel free to post such things."
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Imagine getting fired for something YOU posted in your personal journal.. Isn't this a bit below the belt, so-to-say?
Should doing stuff like this have legal consequences? I sure hope they do.
Your thoughts, please..
Edit: More info..
http://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclect...gging_and.html
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"Okay, here's the first question. Is this page," and here he turned his monitor towards me, letting me see my "Even Microsoft wants G5s" post from last Thursday, "hosted on any Microsoft computer? Or is it on your own?"
"It's on mine. Well, it's on a hosted site that I pay for, but no, it's not on anything of Microsoft's."
"Good. That means that as it's your site on your own server, you have the right to say anything you want. Unfortunately, Microsoft has the right to decide that because of what you said, you're no longer welcome on the Microsoft campus."
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Damn!
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Last edited by meff; 10-29-2003 at 07:20 AM..
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