<story><title>That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job</title><url>https://cohost.org/stillinbeta/post/1847579-that-time-i-posted-m</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spondylosaurus</author><text>Nice read, thanks for sharing.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s interesting (to say the least) that they more or less used a &amp;quot;no talking about politics&amp;quot; clause to fire this woman, even though the other guy&amp;#x27;s statements about DoD weapons systems are certainly just as political. But he&amp;#x27;s an Air Force guy, she&amp;#x27;s a dissident, he&amp;#x27;s establishment, she&amp;#x27;s counterculture, so he got to push her out of a job for meeting him on his playing field, so to speak.&lt;p&gt;Always illuminating to see what gets cast as &amp;quot;political&amp;quot; and what gets cast as merely neutral.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reflexco</author><text>No, it&amp;#x27;s absolutely not about how &amp;quot;counterculture&amp;quot; her opinions are. It&amp;#x27;s about using offensive language. She probably would have avoided all trouble if instead of talking down a fellow participant of the conference, she plugged her beliefs in pacifism in a positive manner.</text></comment>
<story><title>That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job</title><url>https://cohost.org/stillinbeta/post/1847579-that-time-i-posted-m</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spondylosaurus</author><text>Nice read, thanks for sharing.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s interesting (to say the least) that they more or less used a &amp;quot;no talking about politics&amp;quot; clause to fire this woman, even though the other guy&amp;#x27;s statements about DoD weapons systems are certainly just as political. But he&amp;#x27;s an Air Force guy, she&amp;#x27;s a dissident, he&amp;#x27;s establishment, she&amp;#x27;s counterculture, so he got to push her out of a job for meeting him on his playing field, so to speak.&lt;p&gt;Always illuminating to see what gets cast as &amp;quot;political&amp;quot; and what gets cast as merely neutral.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>galkk</author><text>There is nothing political to say &amp;quot;If Kubernetes is good for DoD weapon* systems, it is definitely good enough for your business!&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure that every software engineer can think about complexities that DoD experience in their work with software.  Some are highly technical in hard environments and with reliability requirements&lt;p&gt;* corrected, based on comment below</text></comment>