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Thanks for the link. Though as a Google employee you should probably refrain from any further public comments.
by morio 6y ago
Thanks for the link. Though as a Google employee you should probably refrain from any further public comments.
- dang 6y agoThere's nothing wrong with a Google employee participating in a Google-related discussion (edit: I mean in an HN thread of course), same as with any company. It's nice if they say so, which jefftk did. Edit: I misread. Corrected below. Sorry!
- NoodleIncident 6y agoI'm pretty sure they mean it's a bad idea from Google's perspective, not Hacker News'
- xyzzyz 6y agoNothing wrong with that, sure, but making comments related to ongoing antitrust litigation against company employing you, while not being any official spokesperson and not having your comments vetted by legal and PR, can be really, really detrimental to one's career if Google decides that it doesn't like your comments. Google is very explicit in its internal trainings to never make any public comments like that unless you're officially empowered to do so. You can say or write anything you want on HN... on the last day at your job.
- pmoriarty 6y agoWould whistleblower protections apply in this case?
- Sebguer 6y agoNo, why would they? He's not whistleblowing. The commenter even admits that he has no context on the link in question and just suspects it's what's being implicated.
- kungito 6y agoI worked at Microsoft in Europe and we never had such training. Is this only in the US?
- Hamuko 6y agoThere's probably better protection against random terminations on average in Europe than in America.
- StreamBright 6y agoYes, in the EU employees are more protected and it is much more limited what an employer are legally allowed to do. In fact they have to prove that your intention was malicious.
- kortilla 6y agoNothing wrong for HN, but definitely risky as an employee.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 6y agoIt seems possible that in the history of internet forums, some of them might occasionally receive subpoenas because forum members posted something essential to one side's case in some litigation. It also seems possible that some of those forums receiving subpoenas would rather not deal with the burden of responding.
- Mandatum 6y agoI've been given formal warning for that, others have been fired. It made it front page of HN. I don't think that's wise advice in all cases dang.
- jennyyang 6y agoDan, that's like asking a Google employee to basically get themselves fired. It's not something we should encourage, for their own benefit.
- richardARPANET 6y agoTell that to James Damore
- richardARPANET 6y agoExactly, wouldn't want to lose those golden handcuffs :)