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How did PagerDuty screw you? By firing you?

• bb88 8y ago
  Yeah. Probably because he had 2% of the options, and they wanted to claw it back from him.
  • kbyatnal 8y ago
    I don’t think firing gets rid of vested options, right?
    • bb88 8y ago
      Right, but OP said he was fired before he had options vested. So he took 2% options at a 50% pay cut, but then got fired and that screwed him out of the 2% options before he could vest. Welcome to the valley.
• expathacker 8y ago
  Ugh, I shouldn't post while 1/2 awake on 12 hour flights. PagerDuty fired me before I was vested. I was 1/2 evangelist, and 1/2 "DevOps" but took the 50% pay cut so that I could focus more on evangelism, I don't really like tech work anymore, I don't feel like my contribution is significant enough just being a grunt. During AWS Re:invent I signed us some major customers, but we had a bad outage, so they fired me for the AWS outage. Really. I think it was an excuse, and pg, or some other YC advisor told them to fire me and take back the stock options. After I pointed out how jacked up this was, they offered to bring me back as a contract evangelist, but I hold grudges.