Non-IT News Thread
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Large fire rips through Dubai's Torch Tower
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-40822269Guess it was aptly named.
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@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Large fire rips through Dubai's Torch Tower
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-40822269Guess it was aptly named.
Very
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NHS cyber-defender Marcus Hutchins charged in US
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Danish prince refuses to be buried with his wife, the queen
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Australia...
Australian teenager in hospital after sea bug attack
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-40846546 -
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Australia...
Australian teenager in hospital after sea bug attack
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-40846546Nice... nothing like Sharks to keep you away from the ocean, and now apparently there are flesh eating bugs. . . that apparently aren't noticeable as EATING YOU ALIVE!
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@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Australia...
Australian teenager in hospital after sea bug attack
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-40846546Nice... nothing like Sharks to keep you away from the ocean, and now apparently there are flesh eating bugs. . . that apparently aren't noticeable as EATING YOU ALIVE!
I think making you not notice might be the nicer option.
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Sad day for music.
David Maslanka has perished. -
For all of you Meraki fans out there --
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@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Australia...
Australian teenager in hospital after sea bug attack
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-40846546Nice... nothing like Sharks to keep you away from the ocean, and now apparently there are flesh eating bugs. . . that apparently aren't noticeable as EATING YOU ALIVE!
How are we surprised by any of this? It's Australia. Pretty soon there be legitimate venemous flying snakes that have feet/run 40 mph. Not to mention burrowing spiders (this may exist already haven't looked) that burrow into your flesh lay hundreds of eggs and then eat you on the way out (I know of insects that do this, but spiders?)
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@danp said in Non-IT News Thread:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/business/google-women-engineer-fired-memo.html
lol who didn't see that coming?
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@quixoticjeremy said in Non-IT News Thread:
@danp said in Non-IT News Thread:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/business/google-women-engineer-fired-memo.html
lol who didn't see that coming?
Looks like he may sue them for retaliation. Will be interesting to see how this one plays out.
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@danp said in Non-IT News Thread:
@quixoticjeremy said in Non-IT News Thread:
@danp said in Non-IT News Thread:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/business/google-women-engineer-fired-memo.html
lol who didn't see that coming?
Looks like he may sue them for retaliation. Will be interesting to see how this one plays out.
Agreed, I'll be keeping an eye on it as well.
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Being as big as a corporation as Alphabet is, I'm sure they have a hire/fire at will policy mixed in. Also the employee broke several company policies regarding the material he wrote.
Which is grounds for termination (according to the article).
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@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
Being as big as a corporation as Alphabet is, I'm sure they have a hire/fire at will policy mixed in. Also the employee broke several company policies regarding the material he wrote.
Which is grounds for termination (according to the article).
Couldn't agree more. I don't understand why you would release that memo to begin with....
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@quixoticjeremy said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
Being as big as a corporation as Alphabet is, I'm sure they have a hire/fire at will policy mixed in. Also the employee broke several company policies regarding the material he wrote.
Which is grounds for termination (according to the article).
Couldn't agree more. I don't understand why you would release that memo to begin with....
It's as if he was testing the waters to see what would happen. Or he had the plan to do this, get fired over it and sue as retaliation because he doesn't want to work any more.
In either case it's purely his doing, regardless of free speech or openness or whatever other policy the business has.
They didn't fire him because of what he wrote, they fired him because he broke company policy.
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@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@quixoticjeremy said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
Being as big as a corporation as Alphabet is, I'm sure they have a hire/fire at will policy mixed in. Also the employee broke several company policies regarding the material he wrote.
Which is grounds for termination (according to the article).
Couldn't agree more. I don't understand why you would release that memo to begin with....
It's as if he was testing the waters to see what would happen. Or he had the plan to do this, get fired over it and sue as retaliation because he doesn't want to work any more.
In either case it's purely his doing, regardless of free speech or openness or whatever other policy the business has.
They didn't fire him because of what he wrote, they fired him because he broke company policy.
They did fire him because of what he wrote, but they should be able to justify it based on policy.
