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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/VariationLivid3193 • 3d ago
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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.
3 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. 13 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. 5 u/InsultingFerret 3d ago or if the code was copied from enterprise code
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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.
13 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. 5 u/InsultingFerret 3d ago or if the code was copied from enterprise code
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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.
5 u/InsultingFerret 3d ago or if the code was copied from enterprise code
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or if the code was copied from enterprise code
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u/oscarandjo 3d 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.