If the company sends you to the event, it’s fair to say that you’re there “representing” them. If you’re there on your own dime, that may be different. I’m on

If the company sends you to the event, it’s fair to say that you’re there “representing” them. If you’re there on your own dime, that may be different. I’m on the fence on this one. The tweets were in poor judgment. Especially tagging the speaker. That’s needlessly antagonistic. But, if this person were on my team I’d have tried to protect their job - though I probably wouldn’t be sending them to any shows in the future on the company dime. There’s probably a lot of additional context that isn’t available in this post that might sway me one way or the other. The fact they were brought in via acquisition matters, IMO.