Thursday, October 13, 2005

IBM fires employee over blog comment

Gaurav Sabnis, a sales executive at IBM, had to pay a heavy price for writing about a Delhi based Management institute in his blog. It cost him his job at IBM.

The institute served a legal notice and then they put pressure on Gaurav’s employers IBM - saying they would burn the IBM laptops they use on their campus.

This is what Gaurav has to say:

I have resigned from IBM. The decision is entirely my own and I was not asked by IBM to resign, nor was I pressured in any manner by any executive from IBM. I took the decision in view of some really bizarre threats that were apparently made by IIPM to IBM.
IBM last year sold 1,500 laptops to IIPM . That pressure, Gaurav says, led him to quit.

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