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Going by the way the rules were applied in the (somewhat mysterious original post) there's no reason to believe the rules are applied in this way.
by afandian 11y ago
Going by the way the rules were applied in the (somewhat mysterious original post) there's no reason to believe the rules are applied in this way.
- empressplay 11y agoThe perspective of the post is from the person who was let go though. And I don't think that from their perspective they're lying or obfuscating, but perspective is a curious thing: it's different from person to person, and by necessity it favours the person who has it.
- ebola1717 11y agoFiring employees for minor things is bad for morale & causes high turnover. Especially in software, a company wouldn't want to fire engineers arbitrarily, since it's hard to train new ones & transfer an engineer's knowledge of the codebase. That makes me really doubt his claim that this was "like jaywalking."
- empressplay 11y agoEspecially if they're shown the door immediately and thus aren't available to train up their replacement. You lose domain knowledge and have to rely on a co-worker or manager to train up a new employee which isn't ideal.