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Show HN: Whosfiring
- toomuchtodo 10y agoNice! Email notification for new posts with an account?
- icoffee 10y agoI just got email integrated, and will add that feature :)
- Swizec 10y agoAre pink slip parties coming back too? I feel like I missed a big part of SV culture by being in high school back then. Would be cool to experience again.
- lifeisstillgood 10y agoIt's never cool to experience getting fired. The first couple of times are like gut punches, no matter how many pink slip parties there are, the voice in your head always says "if you were better in this way "they" would not have fired you" As it goes on you get less gut punched, but it's never nice. It's why companies that don't deserve it have a lot of employee loyalty
- Beltiras 10y agoI've been fired twice. Both times it was more of a relief. Once because I engaged too much in my work, took it too seriously. Other time was due to me not liking the atmosphere but having made the decision to "make it work anyways". Both times the reason given on the pink slip was cutbacks and I left both jobs with nice letters of reccommendation. Not every layoff is a bad experience.
- ianai 10y agoCall me weird but the part I wish I had been a part of was the easy money.
- p0ppe 10y agoShould this be considered Fucked Company 2.0, nine years after the original site closed? Edit: The original name was apparently also a pun (Fast Company).
- djsumdog 10y agoThat's the very first thing I thought of when I saw it. RIP Fucked Company.
- monkeyprojects 10y agoWas going to say the exact same thing. I wonder what pud is up to?
- tudorw 10y agohttps://twitter.com/pud https://twitter.com/pud
- iodbh 10y agoPlease pardon my negativity but i'm tired of this trend of taking something that span discussion on HN and making it into an app as soon as possible, then posting it on HN. It's getting out of control since the old geek jobs article on Indiehackers. There's now at least one of these posts per week and they're less and less interesting. It's not showing cool tech or a cool idea, it's just trying to capitalize on the interest here and using HN as an early marketing channel. I mean come on. This is literally an app that allows to add an element to a list because there was a succesful "Ask HN : who's firing ?" post a couple of weeks ago. Please make it stop
- a13n 10y agoThen don't participate. I actually find this idea very interesting and would love to subscribe to notifications about which companies are laying off workers or see trends about how many people are being laid off per week/month. As an investor, this is a nice data point that shows the health of the tech sector. What exactly is wrong with capitalizing on interest here? Sounds smart to me - you know you're solving a real problem and you have a free marketing channel... So many people built stuff that nobody wants.
- ianai 10y agoSeriously, uncovering data on lay offs and firings can only better people. I think HN keeps having ideas pop off like this precisely by its nature. If you go to a local automotive club there's going to be a lot of side projects on display. I would worry about HN becoming stale and (worse) irrelevant if it weren't doing these things.
- iodbh 10y agoI agree that it's smart and that's why it doesn't sit well with me : it's hacking community dynamics ( know interests and an encouraging attitude toward personal projects) into a revenue channel. A possible long-term consequence - HN slowly turning into a proto-producthunt - and a short-term one - a decrease in quality -concern me. That being said, i do see the interest of the indicator. My comment is more about the trend highlighted by this post.
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- karakal 10y agoSo this seems to be aimed at people looking for a job, in the hopes of avoiding said companie. What about all the poor folks in said companies that will fear of being let go because some disgruntled employee decided to post a fake rumor?
- freyir 10y agoAll the posted sites (so far) include a reference to a relevant news article.
- tener 10y agoMight be useful for headhunters?
- ccozan 10y agoActually we used this strategy for a company we were grounding. We just connected to some start-up community and the moment we heard a start-up banked up, we showed in the doorsteps and asked for the resumes. We had really successful hires, picking very good people. Most were happy to continue in our start-up. We had good funding and that helped.
- Illniyar 10y agoAwesome. Really need the ability to search by company name - so we can find out how a company is before joining (or while inside).
- icoffee 10y agoYes, searching will coming up as well.
- Avalaxy 10y ago> so we can find out how a company is before joining You mean like glassdoor?
- danielvinson 10y agoGlassdoor is as much an advertising/marketing site as it is anything else. It isn't that anonymous and I've seen a lot of evidence that companies can bury/delete bad reviews.
- bradknowles 10y agoAnd companies also push their employees to post good reviews on Glassdoor. Been there, seen that t-shirt.
- jameslk 10y agoThis sounds like a fantastic tool for insider trading!
- bbcbasic 10y agoNow we just need whowantstobefired.com to complete the circle
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- partycoder 10y agoYou know, it's not always a bad thing. Layoffs of course are unfortunate events and have a negative connotation. But recruiters often use these news to contact people that potentially got laid off or is at risk of being laid off, and sometimes that is of great help. Probably the website could also offer a job board?
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- eminemence 10y agoTotal fired count would be a nice addition.
- dalys 10y agoI first laughed out actually, but I think it's a good idea and I helped with a contribution. I like other people also think this would be a helpful tool for recruiters and could also be a good tool just for researching employers current or historical firings.
- sbose78 10y agoWhat is the aggregator you use for this information ?
- willyyr 10y agoThis could be useful. Looking forward to see how you iterate. Some features i would like to see in the future: - email notification similar to haveibeenpwned e.g. for company email - company logo (e.g. using Clearbit logo api) - fields for amount of jobs cut, main location/area - some way for people who are impacted to confirm the cuts (e.g. via company email domain) similar to upvotes maybe - related firings of the same company - company search
- pibefision 10y agoOne of the reason of firing people is to align the company with a new goal. Most of this companies are firing because they want and they need new roles in the organization, and are going to contract new people soon. It should not be a negative thing.
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- bartl 10y agoEven if they plan on hiring new people it's still interesting to see what kind of people they fire. If you think you match their profuile, don't even bother to apply.
- michaelt 10y agoUnfortunately a company has no way to signal this, because failing companies usually send the same signals.
- walshemj 10y agoin most countries firing = fired for cause what you are talking about is redundancy
- DennisAleynikov 10y agoQuick note: on mobile, the footer is statically placed on the page and covers some stuff. Interesting.
- codedokode 10y agoSorry, but I am going to comment on a technical implementation rather than the content of a site. The site shows blank page without JS enabled. I did not understand why one would need one megabyte of minified Javascript to display a list of 10 items. Probably it is because the developers were too busy learning trendy JS frameworks and do not know about HTML and server side page generation (in PHP this could be done much easier without JS frameworks and API). And to make page load even slower after loading a megabyte of Javascript they make an additional API request to load a list of links. Hey, you could just send this list as a HTML file from the start. Also it looks like they do not know about HTML <script> tags and encode configuration as a value of a <meta> tag. The page has small white padding below footer.
- 1945 10y agoEnable gzip
- codedokode 10y agoI can bet uncompressed 10 Kb HTML file still would load faster.
- mamadrood 10y agoThat meta configuration looks like ember.js
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- Mandatum 10y agoReally needs a commenting feature.
- icoffee 10y agoI guess it's not obvious, but you can comment on the site.
- SFJulie 10y agoIt would be fun to add the possibility to know who hire while they fire. As coders we have intrinsically an asymmetry of information that is weakening us in our capacity to negotiate our wedges. Every piece of small data (hence information) that can help us is good news.
- benkarst 10y agoA better version can be created in 5 minutes with Thymble: https://github.com/bkarst/thymble https://github.com/bkarst/thymble. Clever idea though.
- chunkyslink 10y agoHave you got a demo working of this? What specifically were your reasons for using rails for it?
- benkarst 10y agoThe working demo is linked on the github (http://www.thymble.org/ http://www.thymble.org/). I have several years experience using Rails so that would be my primary reason. Rails 5 has the ability to use Actioncable (a framework for handling websockets) which would be useful for notifications and chat.
- chunkyslink 10y agoThank you and well done. It's very nice.
- motles 10y agotoo early and seems to be more like a joke I'll visit once than something useful in a job search
- happywolf 10y agoSuggestion: Ability to filter by region (APAC, NA, EMEA, etc.) would be awesome.
- rizkyabdilah 10y agoTry to register then post a notice, it will appear on homepage, great!
- kp25 10y agoAdding moderation, would be a really good addition. Right now, there are lot of junk descriptions posted over there.
- vtsingaras 10y agoGetting spammed at the moment...
- canni 10y agoSomeone is playing pen-testing on the site, filling it with loads of crap :P
- bencollier49 10y agoChrist, what a mess.
- ffjffsfr 10y agoIt is defaced now. Some troll logged in and started posting spam. I'm really not sure why this is on front page of HN? This is just random messages board without any verification. Anyone can sign in and post message anonymously saying: "company foo is firing". There is no way to know if 'foo' is actually firing.
- jajern 10y agoThere was a small discussion recently (last week maybe?) about having a site similar to the old fuckedcompany. I'm guessing that's why it made any traction.
- canni 10y agoLooks also much alike a password gathering honey-pot :)
- petecooper 10y agoHeads up and/or warning: front page is littered with spam, swearing and some racist terms. Consider it NSFW (for now) if your workplace filters for those things.
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- akhatri_aus 10y agoWhat will the business model be? Extortion? This is one of those services that kind of bring the worst out of us.
- ud0 10y agoSite is down
- ud0 10y agosite is down
- walshemj 10y agosite is being spamed with dodgy links avoid
- icoffee 10y agoThis was a project built over the weekend to learn some new things. I learned I need to add moderations to the posts :) I may bring it back as time permits, but wanted to say thanks.
- dudisbrie 10y agoNice work for a weekend :-) Moderation may not be the top priority if the idea is good enough. Worry about the UX first, then aesthetic.
- andrewvijay 10y agoAmazing resource! I got to know a lot of companies that are firing at will.
- cdevs 10y agoSite title alone was enough to make me smile today, thanks / hilarious to see on hacker news
- d99kris 10y agoThere's also https://www.thelayoff.com/ https://www.thelayoff.com/ which I think might be similar. It suffers from pretty poor quality user postings though.
- webtechgal 10y agoHave been trying for 3+ hours, has been down for me. Is it just me or for others too?
- alvil 10y agoSomeone is pretty nervous from this site :)
- Yhippa 10y agoF'd Company: 2016 Edition
- pascalxus 10y agoIt's got some potential, but it needs a name change or product change. I don't like the misuse of the word "firing" which has become incredibly prevalent. To fire someone means there was a performance issue. most of the things listed on that site are just lay offs, not actual "firings". It would be good to know which companies actually "fired", vs which ones "laid off". there's a big difference.