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The person she told that to, Homer Hickam, had no say in the firing, expressed disappointment after, and helped her get another job after (though I do not recall if it was successful). In an era where companies are increasingly sensitive about what employees post online, she had it much much better than just about anyone else in the world fired for the same thing at least.
And really… perhaps I’m old fashioned, but posting stuff like that in the same tweet as your NASA offer was pretty poorly thought out. NASA doesn’t feel like the type of organization that wants its employees associated with messaging like that.
Yeah if they work for NASA we should be able to presume they are intelligent enough to know not to do this.
Intelligence is not really one thing. Even if the person was very intellegent, emotions play a high role in behaviour too
And it was positive emotion. It was joy for getting the job and the "suck my dick" comment I read as "let me have this". And I'm an old dude.
Was it professional or a wise idea? No, but it'd like an astronaut on their first space walk saying "Holy fuck this is amazing."