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I made the terrible mistake this week of using the strategies in this article as a way to provide to my employer my resignation, and unfortunately it didn't wor
by hellofunk 10y ago
I made the terrible mistake this week of using the strategies in this article as a way to provide to my employer my resignation, and unfortunately it didn't work as I'd expected.
- trevor-e 10y agoAh, the classic "try to get fired" move and they promote you instead!
- thinkpad20 10y agoBoy, that's just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him.
- NotSammyHagar 10y agoOur entire society seems to be based on Office Space and Idiocracy
- danbmil99 10y agoThat's because the premise of the article is completely wrong. There's a venerable tradition on Wall Street of generating unmaintainable code and not sharing your knowledge with anyone else. If you're lucky enough for the code you're writing to be mission-critical, you can write your own check and never get fired.
- ygjb 10y agoI won't say which, but one of my previous employers had a policy of only using frameworks and libraries that were invented at the org to reduce the likelihood of employees developing transferable skills. I learned about the policy after I wrote a detailed write-up of a specific bug class that was affecting all of our apps, and recommending switching libraries, and sent it to the leads of all of the development teams across the org. Learning this was a contributing factor in my leaving the place :/
- pdkl95 10y agoTwo question from the "hacker" variant[1] of the old usenet/gopher-era "purity test": 00F0 Is your job secure? 00F1 ... Do you have code to prove it? [1] http://www.mit.edu/people/mjbauer/Purity/hackpure.html http://www.mit.edu/people/mjbauer/Purity/hackpure.html