The key element is the poster was essentially _representing_ their employer at a tech conference.
This would be no different than wearing the uniform of a supermarket and going on a political rant with a megaphone.
This would be no different than wearing the uniform of a supermarket and going on a political rant with a megaphone.
I know the boilerplate "tweets do not represent the views of my employer" thing is a cliche at this point, but I always assumed it was at least partly true. If you're not tweeting directly from AcmeCORP's socials, wouldn't there be some understanding that you're not a direct mouthpiece for the company?
I was attending KubeCon on behalf of my then-employer, VMware.I guess what I'm really asking is whether an outside observer would genuinely assume her tweets were indicative of VMware's official stances on anything, or whether they'd assume she was just one cog in their employee machine. Or maybe it's somewhere in the middle.
Should it be fireable? I’m having trouble there. But they certainly wouldn’t be sent to events for a long, long time.
For something like government, it doesn't really matter what the official stance of the company is. If you think a single employee is going to try to sneak a backdoor into the software you're buying and the company isn't trying hard enough to prevent it, that's a showstopper.
Yes. That's the whole point of "representing your employer at $FOO conf".
> Definitions from Oxford Languages
on behalf of
phrase of behalf
1. in the interests of (a person, group, or principle).
"votes cast by labor unions on behalf of their members".
Similar: as a representative of, as a spokesperson for, for, in the name of, in place of, appearing for, representing, in the interests of
2. as a representative of. "he had to attend the funeral on Mama's behalf"
3. on the part of; done by. "this wasn't simply a philanthropic gesture on his behalf"I wouldn't explicitly dig around to try and figure out who a pseudonymous person is to try and get them in trouble though
I’m on the fence on this one. The tweets were in poor judgment. Especially tagging the speaker. That’s needlessly antagonistic.
But, if this person were on my team I’d have tried to protect their job - though I probably wouldn’t be sending them to any shows in the future on the company dime.
There’s probably a lot of additional context that isn’t available in this post that might sway me one way or the other. The fact they were brought in via acquisition matters, IMO.