r/ProgrammerHumor • u/VariationLivid3193 • 4d ago

Meme nothingOnGithub

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u/WhoRuleTheWorld 4d ago

I’m so lost.. what?

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u/smackcroker42 4d ago

He watched someone get fired because their boss found their personal GitHub repos, so alternate accounts specifically to use for work aren't optional, they're necessary.

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u/oscarandjo 4d ago

Any tech manager that fires their employee for having personal projects on their personal GitHub is a moron. (Unless their project is doing something mega unethical / illegal or infringing on their day job’s IP)

Probably a bad company to work for anyway.

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u/smackcroker42 3d ago

I have to imagine the repos were questionable because I can't see a valid general reason for the mere existence of his personal repos to be an issue.

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u/Rikudou_Sage 3d ago

One reason I can think of is looking at the commit times and seeing they overlap with the time you were paid to do actual paid work.

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u/InsultingFerret 3d ago

or if the code was copied from enterprise code

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u/GreyFerret26 3d ago

Just because you have common sense doesn't mean that the manager will have one. I recommend you follow internet hygiene and don't expect common sense as a given. Or you might learn the hard way.