Microsoft’s G5s
According to a post on a weblog, Microsoft apparently received a shipment of G5s last week. No big surprise there, of course, since Microsoft would need Apple machines for it’s Mac business unit, if nothing else.
The big news here, though, is that the blogger—a Michael Hanscom—was fired by Microsoft over that blog posting. He was a full-time temp and I don’t doubt that MS was within it’s rights to do what it did, but that still doesn’t mean that it was the right thing to do. As one of the comments he received said
Mind what you blog, it might get you the sack even if the posting is not about the company you work in.
Good advice, I guess. I’ll readily admit that there have been things I thought about posting here that would likely have gotten me in trouble had my employers seen the post. That’s precisely why the posts never progress from “thought about” to “blogged about"…
Posted Wednesday October 29, 2003 in Around the Internet by Chris Curtis
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It would be ironic and make a great story if Apple hired him and added a new slant to their Switch campaign, hehe.
As it is, I definitely think he definitely had a reprimand coming. I’m not so sure about getting fired. Since he wasn’t a direct employee, I also wonder about getting paid unemployment. Getting fired for that as an employee, you’d be guaranteed to be able to draw, but since he was through a temp agency I don’t know.
By Derek Jones on October 29, 2003 at 05:33pm link