Tech Firings for Opinions

you make the company look bad you get fired end of story.. it's pretty simpleno one was paying this guy for his opinion

Unless you know, with certainty, who is responsible for customer-facing communications , how can you publicly call on a specific person to be fired? Even if you did know, and are correct in your implication, how do you know that she didn't want to do the right thing but was overruled by people above her in the chain? Overall, this is a pretty irresponsible comment, and reflects the kind of mob mentality that I would expect in Reddit, but not HN.And the bit about Atlassian employees being

"I simply am not able to accept it." - how about, now just hear me out on this one.How about, You entertain the possibility that the dude got fired because he deserved it and wrote something that was intentionally aimed at making the team he was supposed to be a part of erupt in a bunch of fruitless and non-productive drama. Which succeeded in becoming an industry wide viral hit. Drawing unwanted negative publicity to his employer. This is capitalism 101 here. Bro was toxic to effe

Publicly calling your CEO out like that will generally get you fired. It would be newsworthy if the engineer didn't get released.

You're a bit behind in the news. It looks like things will work out OK for the guy [1], and the girl did get fired [2].As a footnote, public shaming was how we got into this mess in the first place, so I wouldn't wish that on anyone.[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398681[2]: http://blog.sendgrid.com/a-difficult-situation/

There was no attack on a colleague (a public disagreement is not an attack). The person who was fired has less than a third the followers of the other person (and probably very significant overlap between the follower groups). There certainly was no publishing of contact info, unless you consider all public mentions on Twitter to be publishing contact info (which is preposterous). Your impression of what happened is mistaken.

Wow, GitHub's head of HR resigned over the matter. This seems like it might run a bit deeper than firing a single employee.

she did not destroy anyone's career; he made an off color comment at a tech conference, someone reported that he did so, and his employer made a decision to fire him because of how it reflected on their company. had he not said it, she'd have nothing to report; had his employer not agreed that it was inconsistent with the public image they wish to present, they would not have fired him.

Seems like someone got fired for letting it come to public view and not so much what they did when filing these complaints.

IIUC she'd fire anyone who'd challenge the hype or raise issues in the company. Not sure why you'd feel bad for her.