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@nixCraft this is the second time in about a month I’ve seen a big company nonsensically call a single dev’s request to pay them or fuck off a “thinly veiled extortion attempt”; the first was Reddit and Apollo’s dev

also, I didn’t expect to see an example of a red hat employee being toxic and demanding free labor so soon after my last post talking about this, but I’ll take it as a sign it’s getting worse

16 Jul 2023 at 0:14 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mas.to
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Ben Cotton (he/him)

@zzt @nixCraft Red Hat employees don't have IBM email addresses, unless that's changed since May 12.

16 Jul 2023 at 0:33 | Open on hachyderm.io
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@funnelfiasco @nixCraft oh sorry, what I referred to as red hat is in fact ibm/redhat. redhat is not a company to itself but rather another proprietary component of the ibm ecosystem

16 Jul 2023 at 0:41 | Open on mas.to
Jerry Bell :verified_paw: :donor: :verified_dragon: :rebelverified:​

@funnelfiasco they do not. I’d love to find other who originated the email. @zzt @nixCraft

16 Jul 2023 at 2:16 | Open on infosec.exchange
Alex

@funnelfiasco @zzt @nixCraft we have contracts with IBM for various dev/BA work, they ALL talk like this. Output is everything for them so they dgaf about any of the soft skills, stakeholder engagement, being nice to people. They just want you to Do The Thing

16 Jul 2023 at 12:01 | Open on mastodon.scot
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@zzt @nixCraft @alextually @funnelfiasco ahh the old “he who has the gold is a fucking asshole” rule

16 Jul 2023 at 14:14 | Open on tech.lgbt
Hak Foo

@zzt @nixCraft You'd think there would be a block of legalese boilerplate which you could put in repos that translates to "this project is not commercially backed, so any timelines, fixes or enhancements are solely at my whim until and unless I'm being paid for them."

16 Jul 2023 at 3:34 | Open on mstdn.party
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@hakfoo @nixCraft to be honest, it feels like a corporation like ibm could easily ignore legal boilerplate if they really wanted their lawyers to bankrupt somebody. if large corporations want to play like this, it’s not going to be worth working with them in any capacity for individual devs

16 Jul 2023 at 5:16 | Open on mas.to
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