4 ms·
If your employment is limited because you are banned arbitrarily from a tool for any reason then the situation is wrong. Regardless of that, my entire org reli
by gw98 4y ago
If your employment is limited because you are banned arbitrarily from a tool for any reason then the situation is wrong.
Regardless of that, my entire org relies on github globally. If we could not onboard or retain someone due to this I would raise this with our risk and compliance board and the product would be written off from the accepted vendors list almost immediately and cause a fuck load of evaluation and migration work and a $100k/year enterprise customer to disappear for them. That's how bad this is.
We already did this to two other vendors and we don't get a choice. It's a business risk.
- tptacek 4y agoIt's not getting banned, it's why you got banned. You could get banned from a tool nobody even gives a shit about for reasons that will absolutely get you shitcanned from a variety of jobs. You could get locked out permanently from Google Mail and Github simultaneously and still keep your job if the reason it happened truly was that you made a fair-minded and impassioned case against closed-source development tools that was so persuasive freaked evil vendors out. It's all about the circumstances.
- gw98 4y agoThat is correct. Which is why I don't give a fuck about the circumstances. I care about the risk to the organisation. And that is a tangible one. And it must be mitigated.
- tptacek 4y agoIf you’re worried GitHub might ice one of your team members, use something else. GitHub is extremely up-front about their willingness to ice users.
- hotpotamus 4y agoWell, you won't be able to onboard the original poster.