| Message ID | 20210419212525.12894-1-ljp@linux.ibm.com (mailing list archive) |
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| State | Accepted |
| Commit | 4acd47644ef1e1c8f8f5bc40b7cf1c5b9bcbbc4e |
| Delegated to: | Netdev Maintainers |
| Headers | show |
| Series | [net] MAINTAINERS: update | expand |
| Context | Check | Description |
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| netdev/cover_letter | success | Link |
| netdev/fixes_present | success | No Fixes tags, but series doesn't touch code |
| netdev/patch_count | success | Link |
| netdev/tree_selection | success | Clearly marked for net |
| netdev/subject_prefix | success | Link |
| netdev/cc_maintainers | success | CCed 0 of 0 maintainers |
| netdev/source_inline | success | Was 0 now: 0 |
| netdev/verify_signedoff | success | Link |
| netdev/module_param | success | Was 0 now: 0 |
| netdev/build_32bit | success | Errors and warnings before: 0 this patch: 0 |
| netdev/kdoc | success | Errors and warnings before: 0 this patch: 0 |
| netdev/verify_fixes | success | Link |
| netdev/checkpatch | success | total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 checks, 7 lines checked |
| netdev/build_allmodconfig_warn | success | Errors and warnings before: 0 this patch: 0 |
| netdev/header_inline | success | Link |
Hello: This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (refs/heads/master): On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 16:25:25 -0500 you wrote: > I am making this change again since I received the following instruction. > > "As an IBM employee, you are not allowed to use your gmail account to work > in any way on VNIC. You are not allowed to use your personal email account > as a "hobby". You are an IBM employee 100% of the time. > Please remove yourself completely from the maintainers file. > I grant you a 1 time exception on contributions to VNIC to make this > change." > > [...] Here is the summary with links: - [net] MAINTAINERS: update https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/4acd47644ef1 You are awesome, thank you! -- Deet-doot-dot, I am a bot. https://korg.docs.kernel.org/patchwork/pwbot.html
On Mon, 2021-04-19 at 16:25 -0500, Lijun Pan wrote: > I am making this change again since I received the following instruction. > > "You are an IBM employee 100% of the time." Wow. In many countries this would not be acceptable. But I hope they pay you for your time 24x7.
On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 11:47 AM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 2021-04-19 at 16:25 -0500, Lijun Pan wrote: > > I am making this change again since I received the following instruction. > > > > "You are an IBM employee 100% of the time." I think they just want to enforce it even though their public relation affirms something differently. > > Wow. > In many countries this would not be acceptable. > But I hope they pay you for your time 24x7. Apparently they did not. I am in the US.
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 6:40 PM <patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@kernel.org> wrote: > > Hello: > > This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (refs/heads/master): > > On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 16:25:25 -0500 you wrote: > > I am making this change again since I received the following instruction. > > > > "As an IBM employee, you are not allowed to use your gmail account to work > > in any way on VNIC. You are not allowed to use your personal email account > > as a "hobby". You are an IBM employee 100% of the time. > > Please remove yourself completely from the maintainers file. > > I grant you a 1 time exception on contributions to VNIC to make this > > change." > > > > [...] > > Here is the summary with links: > - [net] MAINTAINERS: update > https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/4acd47644ef1 In the past 8 months I have received many emails from you, asking me about my current status. I am sorry that I did not have a chance to answer all of them. The most questions being asked were “Are you still with IBM? Did they restore you to the previous job?”. I think I can answer these questions now. I am not with IBM anymore. I was terminated this month. I wasn’t able to work on ibmvnic since June, even as a hobby, which you can figure out from the mailing list traffic. The last 8 months was tough for me. But I am very thankful to all of you for your kindness and support. I will be celebrating the holiday with my family for the rest of the year. I would be happy to find something worth my time (vs. arguing about the open source way of doing things with an entity). I would rather just have a break and relax myself than do something completely mundane for another company. Thank you in advance for any connections, advice or opportunities that you can offer. I have been working on open source projects for 10 years. And I believe that an entity who truly embraces open source, directs the engineering work in the open source way, but not just takes open source as a marketing strategy, will at the end greatly benefit from the open source community, either in attracting top talent or in delivering high quality code. Merry Christmas to You and Your Family! Lijun
On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 12:19 AM Lijun Pan <lijunp213@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 6:40 PM <patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > Hello: > > > > This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (refs/heads/master): > > > > On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 16:25:25 -0500 you wrote: > > > I am making this change again since I received the following instruction. > > > > > > "As an IBM employee, you are not allowed to use your gmail account to work > > > in any way on VNIC. You are not allowed to use your personal email account > > > as a "hobby". You are an IBM employee 100% of the time. > > > Please remove yourself completely from the maintainers file. > > > I grant you a 1 time exception on contributions to VNIC to make this > > > change." > > > > > > [...] > > > > Here is the summary with links: > > - [net] MAINTAINERS: update > > https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/4acd47644ef1 > > > In the past 8 months I have received many emails from you, asking me > about my current status. I am sorry that I did not have a chance to > answer all of them. > > The most questions being asked were “Are you still with IBM? Did they > restore you to the previous job?”. I think I can answer these > questions now. I am not with IBM anymore. I was terminated this month. > I wasn’t able to work on ibmvnic since June, even as a hobby, which > you can figure out from the mailing list traffic. The last 8 months > was tough for me. But I am very thankful to all of you for your > kindness and support. hi Lijun, just wanted to pop in for a sec. I am so sorry to hear about this and I sincerely hope that you are doing better now. > > I will be celebrating the holiday with my family for the rest of the > year. I would be happy to find something worth my time (vs. arguing > about the open source way of doing things with an entity). I would > rather just have a break and relax myself than do something completely > mundane for another company. Thank you in advance for any connections, > advice or opportunities that you can offer. please do! relax and don't burn yourself out. everything will be okay with time! Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you, and your family! :) best, slade
On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 11:26 PM Slade Watkins <slade@sladewatkins.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 12:19 AM Lijun Pan <lijunp213@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 6:40 PM <patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > > > Hello: > > > > > > This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (refs/heads/master): > > > > > > On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 16:25:25 -0500 you wrote: > > > > I am making this change again since I received the following instruction. > > > > > > > > "As an IBM employee, you are not allowed to use your gmail account to work > > > > in any way on VNIC. You are not allowed to use your personal email account > > > > as a "hobby". You are an IBM employee 100% of the time. > > > > Please remove yourself completely from the maintainers file. > > > > I grant you a 1 time exception on contributions to VNIC to make this > > > > change." > > > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > Here is the summary with links: > > > - [net] MAINTAINERS: update > > > https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/4acd47644ef1 > > > > > > In the past 8 months I have received many emails from you, asking me > > about my current status. I am sorry that I did not have a chance to > > answer all of them. > > > > The most questions being asked were “Are you still with IBM? Did they > > restore you to the previous job?”. I think I can answer these > > questions now. I am not with IBM anymore. I was terminated this month. > > I wasn’t able to work on ibmvnic since June, even as a hobby, which > > you can figure out from the mailing list traffic. The last 8 months > > was tough for me. But I am very thankful to all of you for your > > kindness and support. > > hi Lijun, > just wanted to pop in for a sec. > > I am so sorry to hear about this and I sincerely hope that you are > doing better now. > > > > > I will be celebrating the holiday with my family for the rest of the > > year. I would be happy to find something worth my time (vs. arguing > > about the open source way of doing things with an entity). I would > > rather just have a break and relax myself than do something completely > > mundane for another company. Thank you in advance for any connections, > > advice or opportunities that you can offer. > > please do! relax and don't burn yourself out. everything will be okay with time! > > Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you, and your family! :) > > best, > slade Thanks for so many of you supporting me and giving me advice during the holiday season. I would like to share with you one piece of good news, that is my unemployment benefits was approved by the Texas Government. It was no easy job since I was fired. And usually a fired worker does not get unemployment benefits. The reason for the decision from the Texas Government is crystal clear “Our investigation found that your employer fired you for a reason that was not misconduct connected with the work.”.[1] If it was not misconduct, what was the reason? You can figure it out. This company plays the “at will” game to the extreme extent.[2] By firing me before Dec 15, it does not need to match my whole year’s 6% 401K,[3] it does not need to pay for the rest 2 weeks of December, when workers are usually laid back and enjoy the holidays. And of course the company knows I have a 1-year-old child to support, lacking unemployment benefits would be a disaster to my family. What a company it is! I hope, by sharing my own experience with you, it will help when you pick an offer in the future. Happy New Year to You and Your Family Lijun — [1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JY8f1QLkvlOsQjgPQKDf_RSKEFt7h108 [2] US workers do not actually sign a contract. It is an “at will” offer. Employee and employer can fire/terminate each other at any time with any reason. It looks fair to both sides, but in fact employees are usually much weaker in front of employer, in terms of the resources they own. [3] https://www.ibm.com/us-en/employment/benefits/assets/2019_Benefits_and_HR_Programs.pdf IBM matches 401K after one year of service, if you are on active payroll on Dec 15. You may think you should get your first year’s 401K at the end of your first year. The fact is you don’t get it. For example, I was hired in Jan 2019, I thought I would have 401K matched in Dec 2019. But IBM actually started considering 401K matching from Jan 2020. So in my case I only got Year 2020’s 401K matched at end of Dec 2020. I was fired before Dec 15, 2021, so I did not get the money for year 2021. Given the example above, you know exactly how good the 401K policy is.
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 95e6766718b0..933a6f3c2369 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -8526,7 +8526,6 @@ IBM Power SRIOV Virtual NIC Device Driver M: Dany Madden <drt@linux.ibm.com> M: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.ibm.com> R: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.ibm.com> -R: Lijun Pan <lijunp213@gmail.com> L: netdev@vger.kernel.org S: Supported F: drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.*
I am making this change again since I received the following instruction. "As an IBM employee, you are not allowed to use your gmail account to work in any way on VNIC. You are not allowed to use your personal email account as a "hobby". You are an IBM employee 100% of the time. Please remove yourself completely from the maintainers file. I grant you a 1 time exception on contributions to VNIC to make this change." Signed-off-by: Lijun Pan <ljp@linux.ibm.com> --- MAINTAINERS | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)