<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>pewpew2020</author><text>and that was an &amp;quot;external&amp;quot; witness, not even an employee of the company. Which company would tolerate that? Social media has somehow conditioned people to think they can air all of their opinions with no filter and when there are consequences, they act surprised.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cmdli</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Being as I’m not an idiot, I elect to bring a witness of my own (@lizthegrey ). She slightly livetweeted that conversation until VP VMware tells her to stop. &amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This, I think, is the point that caused the firing. It&amp;#x27;s pretty clear that if you choose a witness who then posts everything publicly that you are not discussing in good faith. Like, it&amp;#x27;s your right to speak your mind, and maybe you think you are in the moral right, but if you intentionally antagonize the people you work with you won&amp;#x27;t be working with them for much longer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job</title><url>https://cohost.org/stillinbeta/post/1847579-that-time-i-posted-m</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>grimgoldgo</author><text>You are allowed to discuss workplace conditions. That&amp;#x27;s like, protected concerted activity 101.&lt;p&gt;If the business was uncomfortable with their treatment of their employees being public, maybe that activity wasn&amp;#x27;t ethical.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cmdli</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Being as I’m not an idiot, I elect to bring a witness of my own (@lizthegrey ). She slightly livetweeted that conversation until VP VMware tells her to stop. &amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This, I think, is the point that caused the firing. It&amp;#x27;s pretty clear that if you choose a witness who then posts everything publicly that you are not discussing in good faith. Like, it&amp;#x27;s your right to speak your mind, and maybe you think you are in the moral right, but if you intentionally antagonize the people you work with you won&amp;#x27;t be working with them for much longer.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job</title><url>https://cohost.org/stillinbeta/post/1847579-that-time-i-posted-m</url></story>