It was literally written in 2nd sentence of the post
I was attending KubeCon on behalf of my then-employer, VMware. 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"