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Was firing an over-reaction?

Was firing an over-reaction?

Posted Mar 24, 2013 9:57 UTC (Sun) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742)
In reply to: Was firing an over-reaction? by bkuhn
Parent article: Blum: Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost

"I've been fired myself before for less, frankly. Specifically, I was once fired (in part) because I regularly made personal statements on my personal blog"

This is not "less".
Those two guys were only talking to each other, not public. Nobody should have listened.

Putting something on a blog is public.


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Was firing an over-reaction?

Posted Mar 24, 2013 10:21 UTC (Sun) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742) [Link]

I mean, also in Germany you can get fired if you say bad things about your employer in public.
A blog is public, a private conversation between two guys is not.

Alex

Was firing an over-reaction?

Posted Mar 25, 2013 12:48 UTC (Mon) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]

Yes, unfortunately there are no laws to protect whistleblowers in germany. There's a Bundestag petition to change that, but it didn't succeed so far :(

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