zlacker

Don’t get me wrong, love the writeup… Ancient history now but perhaps less so in 2006.

But if I took pictures of my employers’ lab and posted on my personal blog, they might not be thrilled… And if I were to seek permission, they’d want it on the company website instead…

>>BobbyT+(OP)
Blogging on personal blogs was somewhat condoned back then. There was a period when MS was really encouraging personal blogs and then they pulled back from this to focus on blogs hosted on their platform.

Channel 9 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_9_(Microsoft)) was taking off and they were doing video all around their campus. It was a real look behind the curtain and probably an element of the foundation for their adoption of open source.

>>BobbyT+(OP)
what harm was caused?

>>BobbyT+(OP)
Like that time someone gave a tour of Twitter HQ on TikTok and it inadvertently exposed that they and their coworkers basically did nothing all day but drink cappuccinos and eat free company food.

You could tell these guys were genuinely thrilled they got free sugary drinks in 2006. That was considered a serious perk back then.

>>BobbyT+(OP)
Was wondering that. Most places I’ve worked have been an (unspoken in some places, explicitly in others) no phots of anything work related.

>>sugarp+i8
It was. I was a teenager in the northwest in the 90s, and remember how aspirational it was to work somewhere that gave employees that kind of latitude.

>>sugarp+i8
Of course they did, taking pictures of people doing work would be the specific concern that was raised in the comment above yours. So all you're going to get is a look at the company fridge.