When I read this, and the other one, the only idea that I can come up with is that everyone is lying, at least a little bit. It seems pretty unlikely that it w

When I read this, and the other one, the only idea that I can come up with is that everyone is lying, at least a little bit. It seems pretty unlikely that it would be within your job description to create notifications like this on specific websites, and from reading the blog post and the content here, it seems like these notifications are not meant for "company policies" whatever that means, or at the very least it doesn't make sense why a "security engineer" would have a job that notified employees about this. So, the assumption therefore must be that this person knew they were going out of the norm, but assumed it was acceptable or protected speech. That raises a good question: Is it the same thing as a message board? My gut instinct is... no, it really isn't. This sounds like a tool that requires a specific level of authority to use (you need 2 approvals). Not just anyone can put notifications like this in the tool! So this isn't like a message board... this sounds like it was a person abusing their privileges. Now, for me the next question is: does that mean they should be fired? Personally, I'd say... no. It shows bad judgement, but firing seems disproportionate. In that regard, even if it was a misguided attempt at using their organizing rights, there is an argument to be made that they shouldn't be fired for it (maybe warned, but not fired). So I think even though it sounds pretty fishy, I think there is likely still a possible case here for workers rights issues (though I am not a lawyer).