Atlassian ordered to reinstate engineer sacked over Slack clash with leadership

According to the report, Cannon-Brookes told attendees pushing back on the changes to “go somewhere else” if they wanted to “nark,” using an Australian term the judgment described as referring to someone “overly frustrated and annoyed, often in situations where you have no right to be.”

Unterwurzacher then posted a message referencing unverified claims that Cannon-Brookes had dialled into the meeting from the headquarters of the Utah Jazz, the NBA team he part-owns, writing: “What’s up Outragers? Just dialling in from my NBA team’s headquarters to yell at the people whose careers I’ve just pummelled, wyd?”

Was it protected activity?

US National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law Judge Susannah Merritt found Atlassian had terminated Unterwurzacher for her “protected concerted activity.”

It cited the company’s own communications to her at the time of dismissal, noting a “pattern of acrimonious communications for which she had been coached.”

Atlassian had argued the comment crossed a line by personally targeting Cannon-Brookes rather than criticising the substance of the restructuring.