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> One day I created a tool that made it faster to download things from your work email that you might need if you were looking for a job: performance evaluation
by EarlKing 4y ago
> One day I created a tool that made it faster to download things from your work email that you might need if you were looking for a job: performance evaluations and that sort of thing.
> I posted the tool on Slack so that my colleagues could also benefit from it if they needed to. One hour and four minutes later I was fired.
Gosh, I wonder these two incidents are related?
PROTIP: Don't distribute tools to facilitate the exfiltration of company property and expect to keep your job.
- factsarelolz 4y agoI'm glad I'm not the only one who thought the same when reading those lines.
- EarlKing 4y agoThe hilarious part is they literally buried the lead in the last paragraph. Nothing says "our readers will definitely think this guy deserved to get fired and not read any further if we tell them this" than burying it in the last paragraph.
- sangnoir 4y agoDo employees have the right to access past performance reviews manually? If so, it's not "exfiltrating company property". Do you draw the line at automation?
- scottcodie 4y agoTwitter's actions seems like retaliation against the employee for enabling other employees to collect evidence of discrimination. Performance reviews often exist to reduce the companies liability when firing people off, but being fired with good performance reviews can work against them.
- heleninboodler 4y agoOh, come on, "exfiltration of company property" when we're talking about personal performance evaluations is a pretty huge stretch. I'd characterize this as "Don't make cheeky slack posts alluding to the fact that you're looking for a new job and helping others do the same."