Microsoft Fires Mac Fan For Blog Photo 1087
christor writes "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.
Check out the blog entry, Even Microsoft wants G5s, and the one that follows it. 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."
so what ? (Score:2, Funny)
Where were those G5 going?!? (Score:5, Funny)
Uh Oh (Score:5, Funny)
First he gets fired and now Slashdot posts 3 links to his server? Poor guy!
Offer to take the posting down (Score:5, Funny)
And if he doesn't want to take it down, damn it we'll take it down FOR him.
Is /. a Kro subsidiary ? (Score:1, Funny)
Office Space (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Why are they so secretive? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Uh Oh (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Why are they so secretive? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Microsoft and the "community" (Score:3, Funny)
Well.... there's this one called slashdot [slashdot.org]! I mean, everytime a Microsoft employee belches, it makes front page there!
Security violation? (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, I can see how the disclosure of this confidential information will cause the destruction of the company. As we speak, hordes of Linux-loving commandos are probably filing into semi trailers purporting to be carrying cases of Jolt Cola or some such, in a classic "trojan horse" maneuver.
~Philly
Re:I side with Microsoft on this one. (Score:2, Funny)
So I guess there's no chance you'll post a picture of her then? ;-)
zRe:Where were those G5 going?!? (Score:2, Funny)
That's it, you're not going to be hired now.
The Real reason he was fired... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Microsoft and the "community" (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Non-issue (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Where were those G5 going?!? (Score:5, Funny)
That probably explains the lack of braincells in the US government.
Re:so what ? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Where were those G5 going?!? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Where were those G5 going?!? (Score:4, Funny)
Damn. So when you see all those snaps of happy smiling kids being entertained by Ronald McDonald at their birthday party, five minutes later, security arrived and escorted them off the premises?
If that's true, the McDonald's executives should have hot cups of coffee poured all over their genital areas as punishment.
hahaha (Score:3, Funny)
Re:MSFT does Mac software, so DUH? (Score:3, Funny)
"It seems that my post is seen by Microsoft Security as being a security violation"
LOL
This is a microsoft's version of a security flaw but leaving ports open isn't (and all of the other long list of items)? Go figure.