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Keep in mind that Adria Richards was acting in an official capacity as a representative of SendGrid at PyCon. SendGrid's business is transactional email, and on
by peripetylabs 14y ago
Keep in mind that Adria Richards was acting in an official capacity as a representative of SendGrid at PyCon. SendGrid's business is transactional email, and one of their public spokespersons happily outs private conversations on social media, even distributing photographs of people without their permission -- as a SendGrid customer who takes privacy very seriously, I found this concerning, and I have been looking at alternatives since this fiasco.
- obviouslygreen 14y agoIt is concerning, but it's concerning about Adria and people like her, not about SendGrid. It's irresponsible to assume that, because someone has represented a company poorly, that that is a poor company. People mess up, and in this situation either Adria messed up or whoever hired her did. That's not to say either party is stupid or a "bad person" or any such thing... it's to say that Adria did something that most of us consider clearly wrong/unprofessional, and if there was a clear indication that she'd do such a thing, the hiring manager should not have brought her on. I'm inclined to think there was no such indication and this is just her personally doing something irresponsible, but then we don't know. Immediately making that a reflection on her employer is invalid and makes things worse than they already are.