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Microsoft Fires Mac Fan For Blog Photo

Posted by timothy on from the camera-un-obscura dept.

christor writes "Microsoft has fired a full-time temp employee after it discovered that the employee posted in his blog a photo and story concerning Microsoft's purchase of what looks to be around 18 G5s. Check out the blog entry, Even Microsoft wants G5s, and the one that follows it. Microsoft fired the blogger, despite an offer to take the posting down. Note that this is not a free speech issue, even though the blog was hosted on a non-company server, because Microsoft is not, yet, the government. But it does present several other interesting issues, including that of the trade-off between the bad publicity that comes from the firing and whatever bad results follow when employees feel free to post such things."

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  1. wow dogg aint dat a thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    thats the craziest dern thing i heard in about 3 minutes and dats crazy man

    yes

  2. "full-time temp" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    - Jumbo shrimp
    - Pretty ugly
    - Head butt
    - Boneless ribs

  3. Naturally they would do this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They must be Gay Niggers! How else can this be explained? Communism? Anti-American activity? Corporate Assholism? It appears that corporations need to be STRIPPED of any legal standing ever given to them. Make them totally responsible for acts comitted by their agents! Fuck the big business intrusion to our world! Fuck them hard and fast so they cannot cum!

  4. Obey the ruler by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Billus Gatus the evil is your eternal master, he will crush you like a bug under his boot if you down obey his commands and will.

  5. I hope this means VPC will work on G5s soon by payote · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and don't start that big-endian/ little-endian stuff. I just want to be able to open all the frickin attachments my family emails me.

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