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Heh, sounds much better than my previous employer's way of occasionally sending company-wide emails along the line of "The employee who was responsible for the
by yongjik 10y ago
Heh, sounds much better than my previous employer's way of occasionally sending company-wide emails along the line of "The employee who was responsible for the XXX leak was found and terminated. We remind you that leaks damage our culture and make it difficult to share ideas inside the company."
For some reason such emails made me feel like I was inside a tech cult. Guess my culture fit wasn't good enough...
Well, to be fair, I guess MS also utilizes these emails in addition to reverse psychology...
- j28xfc5qsc 10y agoI never received an email like that when I worked at Microsoft. Granted, maybe they would send emails like that within a specific department, and my department was probably less prone to leaks.
- verst 10y agoGoogle right? I used to work there too. I thought Google was especially open internally, which really allowed me to thrive.
- yongjik 10y agoYeah, I really liked Google's internal openness too, but the way they protected it felt a bit overzealous. As if I'm live-action roleplaying a spy organization or something. Almost nobody seemed to have any problem with it, so I guess it's just me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- khuey 10y agoThe alternative, where people don't share information internally because they're afraid of leaks, is pretty shitty.
- hota_mazi 10y agoSounds like standard business practice to me. If you can't understand basic instructions such as not leaking internal, confidential info, you deserve to be fired.
- derefr 10y agoOh, sure; I think the parent commenter's point was in thinking that emailing everyone about the termination of the leaker served as any sort of deterrence mechanism for people's use of the leaked build.
- yongjik 10y agoWell, emails are not exactly deterrence against people using the leaked "build": being an internet service company, that part is usually achieved by shutting down the server. Emails are supposed to be deterrence against further leaks by reinforcing the "company culture". (Whether they work, I have no idea.)