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0 pointsqup2y ago0 comments

I'm serious. Who doesn't like to get drunk at work? I do (it's only happened once, but it's one of my best memories).

Dang can edit my comments. (He does have to edit comments sometimes, I'm sure, but for reasons you approve of.) I would find it annoying. Until this comment thread, though, I'm not sure I would have considered that dang would get fired for it.

I don't think I nor anyone should be held accountable at work for comments made on Hacker News. If I lost my job over dang editing my post, I would think I worked for a really shit company and nobody went to bat for me. Basically, I would continue believing the interaction on the forum was totally unimportant, and I would be dumbfounded by the idiocy of my manager for elevating it to that a fireable offense, particularly after I let them know I did not make that comment.

FWIW, nobody needs to worry about me. I do not have a boss.

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sidfthec2y ago

> I don't think I nor anyone should be held accountable at work for comments made on Hacker News.

> FWIW, nobody needs to worry about me. I do not have a boss.

Great, but now bring it back to real life, because a ton of people are held accountable at work for comments made on social media and do have a boss.

qupOP2y ago

A ton of people deal with all kinds of shitty problems at work, and the answer to most of them isn't to petition to fire some random dude that nobody in the situation has ever met who works for some other uninvolved company. The answer is to fix the shitty internal process that lets powers-that-be stalk and fire people for social media posts.

Bringing it back to real life: I don't fire my people for what they say on the internet.

lesuorac2y ago

What situation do you think dang would need to edit a comment that a deletion wouldn't work?

HN isn't partnering with the CIA to catch some Russian spy by modifying a comment so that the drop is in a monitored location. He's just going to delete the comment if it contains something it shouldn't.

klyrs2y ago

> Who doesn't like to get drunk at work? I do (it's only happened once, but it's one of my best memories).

This is the saddest thing I've read all week and my uncle just died.

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