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Comment by sillysaurusx

19 hours ago

I was once almost fired for saying a little too much in an HN comment about pentesting. Being dragged into an office and given a dressing-down for posting was quite traumatic.

The central issue (or so they claimed) was that people might misconstrue my comment as representing the company I was at.

So yeah, I don’t understand why people are making fun of this. It’s serious.

On the other hand, they were so uptight that I’m not sure “opinions are my own” would have prevented it. But it would have been at least some defense.

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girvo  16 hours ago

> On the other hand, they were so uptight that I’m not sure “opinions are my own” would have prevented it.

In my experience it didn't matter at all, they considered "you work for us, its known you work for us, therefore your opinions reflect on us".

Absolute nonsense, they don't pay me for 24 hours of the day. I told them where they can stick it (politely) and got a new job.

  • sillysaurusx  13 hours ago

    Good on you. I’m happy to hear you got out of that kind of environment. It’s soul-draining.

    Also a relief to hear that other people had to deal with this nonsense. I was afraid the reaction would be “there’s no way that happened,” since at the time I could hardly believe it either.