<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>errantspark</author><text>This person is giving advice from the PoV of an individual comfortable with playing zero sum or even negative sum games as long as they are able to continue winning.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t be like this, don&amp;#x27;t corrode the commons for personal gain. By not speaking out you are endorsing a harmful asymmetry, make no mistake about your personal responsibility for perpetuating hostile norms.</text><parent_chain><item><author>helloguillecl</author><text>And now tell us, how would the rest of us know how working for X it&amp;#x27;s like? Should we just rely on their HR marketing?&lt;p&gt;By keeping it quiet, the company would be simply getting away with their unjust practices and unprofessional management.&lt;p&gt;If it&amp;#x27;s clear that the company cannot see that they are doing something wrong... you&amp;#x27;d be keeping it quiet to get exactly what from them?</text></item><item><author>SkipperCat</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ll accept that what the author posted is the truth. Atlassian did not give him what he wanted or needed. And now this battle is public, he will never get anything else from them.  The proverbial glove has been thrown down and they will fight you on all fronts.&lt;p&gt;To everyone else, If this happens to you, I implore you to get legal counsel ASAP, and keep it quiet.  Find out all your options and strike a quiet deal with your employer. That is the best you&amp;#x27;ll ever get.&lt;p&gt;Almost any large company has much deeper pockets than you do and their reputation is more valuable that their ethics.  You&amp;#x27;ll rarely win in the court of public opinion and you&amp;#x27;ll probably never get hired anywhere again.  I say this even if you were 100% in the right.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer</title><url>https://shitlassian.com/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sjtindell</author><text>I agree with both you and the above commenter. Perhaps it is optimal to keep quiet for yourself, but optimal for the group if none of us keep quiet. A tough problem.</text><parent_chain><item><author>helloguillecl</author><text>And now tell us, how would the rest of us know how working for X it&amp;#x27;s like? Should we just rely on their HR marketing?&lt;p&gt;By keeping it quiet, the company would be simply getting away with their unjust practices and unprofessional management.&lt;p&gt;If it&amp;#x27;s clear that the company cannot see that they are doing something wrong... you&amp;#x27;d be keeping it quiet to get exactly what from them?</text></item><item><author>SkipperCat</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ll accept that what the author posted is the truth. Atlassian did not give him what he wanted or needed. And now this battle is public, he will never get anything else from them.  The proverbial glove has been thrown down and they will fight you on all fronts.&lt;p&gt;To everyone else, If this happens to you, I implore you to get legal counsel ASAP, and keep it quiet.  Find out all your options and strike a quiet deal with your employer. That is the best you&amp;#x27;ll ever get.&lt;p&gt;Almost any large company has much deeper pockets than you do and their reputation is more valuable that their ethics.  You&amp;#x27;ll rarely win in the court of public opinion and you&amp;#x27;ll probably never get hired anywhere again.  I say this even if you were 100% in the right.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer</title><url>https://shitlassian.com/</url></story>