Microsoft Fires Mac Fan For Blog Photo

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 29, 2003 @02:28AM 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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Re:so what ? by hackhound · 2003-10-29 05:04 · Score: 2, Redundant

The simple fact of the matter was this guy was a temp. Microsoft did not fire him, and he has absolutely NO job security. I worked as a temp doing a Y2K upgrade for Ci**bank, and they have the right to dismiss anybody at anytime for any reason. That's just one of the many fun aspects of being a temp.