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She publicly posted without consent a picture and an incriminating comment in an increasingly context of being touchy and wary about gender issues at tech conferences.

Of course this has a significant potential for HR to do PR and distance themselves from their employee in an attempt to save the company image and avoid a potential pro-feminist backlash. Though I agree play haven overreacted, from their despicable business activity it's not that surprising, and past similar experiences points towards this as almost predictable and expected.

But for a dev evangelist, this was highly inconsiderate and irresponsible thing to do, it looks like she didn't care about the consequences of what she did, and got fired over it. Which makes sense too, as explained by sendgrid here: http://blog.sendgrid.com/a-difficult-situation/ she did it all wrong, made her employer look bad, had the opposite effect of what her job position asks for, render herself ineffective at her job in the future, and inadvertently endangered her employer business.

> she was just fired herself over her actions.

Do you actually know what she was fired over? All I've seen in a statement that her employment was terminated.

For all I know the situation went like this:

SendGrid: We think you handled this situation badly, and since you were there as a SendGrid employee, that reflects badly on the company. We'd like you to make a public apology about they way in which you dealt with it.
Adria: No
SG: We're not asking
Adria: But I'm not doing it
SG: Then we don't think you can continue working here.

Which is to say, she may have been terminated because of how she handled the situation within SendGrid, rather than what she did at the Con. Or maybe not. I don't think we've been given enough information to know & nor are we ever likely to unless Adria posts it.

Edit: I've just read the more detailed blog post (http://blog.sendgrid.com/a-difficult-situation/) and it seems your interpretation is right.

You're a bit behind in the news. It looks like things will work out OK for the guy [1], and the girl did get fired [2].

As a footnote, public shaming was how we got into this mess in the first place, so I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398681

[2]: http://blog.sendgrid.com/a-difficult-situation/

There's four instances of the message now. There's no way it is fake.

http://blog.sendgrid.com/sendgrid-statement/

http://status.sendgrid.com/

https://twitter.com/SendGrid/statuses/314768776577036288

https://www.facebook.com/SendGrid/posts/10151502570463967

It's not fake. They just confirmed it on their site:

http://blog.sendgrid.com/sendgrid-statement/

My post on this was deleted as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416106