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Who thinks they can tell their boss "kiss my ass" and not get fired?

> i said it before and i'll say it again

> kiss my ass elon

Eh, normally I'd agree, but let's not pretend this is a normal situation. If you parachute into a company as CEO and start publicly insulting all of the professional work that the employees (half of whom he just fired) have done, you can't expect them not to defend themselves and their (former) colleagues.

This seems to be the fireable shitpost:

https://twitter.com/sachee/status/1591857120768843776

Her pinned Tweet is "kiss my ass elon" from July 8.

True, I didn't see that. Still, he wasn't her boss at the time, that was the day he filed the first termination letter of his attempt to buy twitter, so it looked like he never would be. (I'm assuming she pinned it after he fired her, but I'm not sure.)

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000110465922...

The first line of that tweet reads

> lol just got fired for shitposting

I think it's okay to say "kiss my ass" after being fired. Especially if you think doing so sends the right signal.

Her "kiss my ass elon" pinned post was from July 8.

She's been publicly criticising Elon for a few days now, and not in a constructive manner like the Android dev. I can understand why she'd be let go.

Because she want like the pony flight attendant?

I wonder if there’s a severance package for that. Employment suicide by cop.

Dangerous gamble for just a couple months of severance.

Would make me hesitant to hire that person knowing they have such bad judgement as to publicly badmouth the CEO of their company on Twitter. Even hiring managers who personally hate Elon have to understand that this developer could easily turn the same energy on their own company at some point in the future and make them look terrible.

Definitely a career limiting move, if not potentially career ending.

Unless you're in a financial FU position, and this is your grand FU moment on your way out the door, it seems like a bad move.

I think this attitude about "bad judgement" needs to evolve. We need to consider whether a worker's profane tirade is a reflection of their judgement or a reflection of working under an extremely abusive boss.

Career ending. Go scope her experience and actual role and you'll see why she spoke so freely. She can waltz into any other company she wants. They're already coming for her in the thread lmao

Lol.. these career ending move people are the same type that would say it is risky for someone who just graduated from MIT to leave their McDonald's job. I've sued multiple previous employers and never had it come up during interviews at Fortune 50 companies. I even went to work at one company that I had previously sued and won against in a personal dispute. If you're good at your job these companies don't care, they won't put that much effort into checking, and you can always scrub your social media later on.

I would hire anyone that called any C level person a dumbass for making bad decisions affecting the bottom-line of the company.

I’ll hire her. My skin is pretty thick, and I need competent engineers more than my ego stoked.

Don't overthink it. Elon's a huge ass.

> Definitely a career limiting move, if not potentially career ending.

She is already receiving job offers, so how could you possibly come to that ridiculous conclusion?

Of course she’s receiving generous offers from the ‘hurr durr Elon bad’ crowd. The career limitation is that most people just aren’t in that crowd. That doesn’t necessarily mean they’re licking Elons boots, it could also mean they don’t care at all or that they are somewhere in the middle.

I’m not in a hiring position but if I were I’d avoid her because I don’t want to import drama into my environment.

If you were my hiring director and turned down an exceptional candidate because they stood up for their team, you’d be the one getting fired.

Telling your boss to ‘kiss my ass’ is not standing up for your team, it’s perfectly normal grounds to get fired. But be sure to hire her if you think that behavior is normal, it’s a free world.

If you are competent, at the end of the day you can get away with almost anything. In the worst case, she can go start her own company as a GraphQL consultant :)

Seems from my outsider perspective that this kind of hyper-aggressive and combative tone is like a currency on Twitter… There seem to be those for whom the Twitter bubble is _everything_ (which would include Elon), and then you have the other 99.9% of humanity who look on with confusion. And the 0.1% of the super engaged don't seem to be able to fathom that the Twitter bubble still exists _within_ reality, where actions can have consequences

It won't hurt her hiring prospects one bit. In the long run, it might even help.

(using his platform)

(wasn't he supposed to be for free speech?)

(Did he stop her from saying it?)

He literally cancelled her. Got her fired from her own job because of a tweet. It's exactly the intolerance he complains of.

No, actions have consequences but he has not prevented her from saying what she wanted to say.

"No, actions have consequences"

Literally the exact thing Elon Musks complains about except it's when someone on his side of the culture war that becomes a victim.

Hurr durr Elon bad all you want, getting fired for telling your boss to ‘kiss my ass’ is not cancel culture and neither is continuing to host that message.

It's literally exactly what the right, and the rest of the twitter free speechistas, consider cancel culture.

I’m not about to debate a troll on the straw man of what ‘the right’ meanies consider cancel culture.

Well you tried to for a few posts there

What was it, beacon of absolute free speech or some horseshit like that?

Speaking of horse, remember when he told an employee he'd buy her a horse if she fucked him?

Free speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences.

If you wanna be paid to be a doormat, there is demand for that clearly.

This is like his open door policy - go through it, for you will leave your job behind it.

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