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If you ever need to lawyer up against a company it would be very wise to have your lawyer do “discovery” on any email any manager has written about you. This sh
by goatinaboat 7y ago
If you ever need to lawyer up against a company it would be very wise to have your lawyer do “discovery” on any email any manager has written about you. This should be standard advice to all employees.
- cutenewt 7y agoWhy?
- goatinaboat 7y agoIn the article it’s explained that he only found out accidentally but I’ll bet it’s pretty common.
- candiodari 7y agoWhy do you think companies in the US have instituted a "delete emails after 6 months/1 year" policy ?
- jdashg 7y agoIt's wild that this continual destruction of evidence is not only tolerated but SOP. It's just so convenient! Imagine if commit messages disappeared after 6mo!
- jonstewart 7y agoWell, the alternative is for every last written thing at a company--jokes, gripes, mistakes--to be scrutinized and taken out of context in court by an opposing side's legal team.
- jrockway 7y agoThere is probably a desire to make commit messages go away after 6 months. I am guessing that the lawyers aren't putting much pressure on engineering teams because nobody has thought to "discover" commit messages in a major case yet (whereas email is routine).
- goatinaboat 7y agoIt's wild that this continual destruction of evidence is not only tolerated but SOP. I bet it’s still on the backup tapes. So when slapped with a court order it will be an order of magnitude more expensive for them to disclose.
- candiodari 7y agoYou destroy the encryption keys to those backups, not the data itself. This is a problem that has long been solved.