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> The company terminated her in June 2023 after two more incidents, including a sarcastic allusion to an Atlassian founder’s partial ownership of the Utah Jazz
by apparent 3mo ago
> The company terminated her in June 2023 after two more incidents, including a sarcastic allusion to an Atlassian founder’s partial ownership of the Utah Jazz basketball team. “Just dialling in from my NBA team’s headquarters to yell at the people whose careers I’ve just pummelled,” she wrote.
Yeah this comment seems rude and without much substantive value. I would not want someone with this attitude and sense of decorum to work at my company, regardless of whether I believed in the causes that they advocated for. It's just a cheap shot, and not especially funny or insightful.
The company claims they had rules against this type of comment, and that's why she was fired:
> Atlassian argued that it had fired Ms. Unterwurzacher for violating company rules that require employees to behave civilly and avoid ad hominem attacks against one another.
Seems like a case like this could be overturned on appeal, if what they say is true. Also depends on what else she said, which the article doesn't mention.