oktarb
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Nobody forced him to use his twitter account registered to his real name and clearly identifying him as MS employee.
He could have easily created a private Twitter account just for that sort of horsing around with close friends and family. He could have easily used a private message, or a protocol/service that is not by default broadcasting every little thing one says for the world to see.
He did not.
Everything he typed could be traced back to him, and in turn, his employer. He knew that, and yet he posted stuff of questionable nature anyway.
I do feel sorry he got fired/was forced to resign/resigned of his own volition or whatever caused him to no longer work at MS. I do not wish that on anyone.
However, all of this is his own making.
(If he got axed for breaking an NDA he can be happy that all he lost was his job. There are some genuinely scary phrases in some of them.)
He definitely needs to take responsibility for his own actions and it looks like whether he likes it or not he has. I was talking more about the company culture theses. One which encourages you to represent them on all fronts. Twit, post, Be MS or whatever company you're with. You can post a thousand normal things but one bad moment and your ship is sunk.