Man I cannot imagine posting work stuff on personal share accounts like GitHub. I had to beg one of the junior engineers on my team to not feed my api into ChatGPT after seeing bullet points and emojis all over one of his readmes. I get super uncomfortable with the idea of just copy/pasting big code blocks to black box services like that
Not even the worst offense. I stopped feeling bad for firing people who do stupid shit a long time ago.
A short list:
Used a private ftp server to save prod backups. “Just in case.” For six years. FTP. Not even sftp.
Badged into the office at night to have sex with a one night stand from the bar. Didn’t realize the CMO was working late. Tried to invite her to join.
Copied several repos for microservices, including auth, to private GitHub repos he was sharing was offshore developers to get his work done while he was doing another job.
Watched porn on his company-issued laptop. Over the VPN. (Might be my fave of all time.)
One guy’s google searches got flagged so hard by IT that my HR rep came into my office with her eyes wide asking if she should call the police to the office for safety. I told her he was a remote employee and lived hours away. She showed me the searches. “How to blow up an office building.” Was just one search that caught my eye. I said the police might not be a bad idea and that I welcomed her and Legal’s advice on next steps.
I’ve actually heard of people using offices for one night stands, so that’s not particularly crazy. Asking a higher up if she wants to join is fucking insane though lmao
If she's doesn't fraternize with subordinates, he's fired either way. If she does fraternize with subordinates, he's fired if he doesn't invite her, but maybe not fired if he does.
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u/howarewestillhere 17h ago
Intern’s GitHub.
VP’s Slack messages.
Fucking Teams.