I agree with that. But my answer was for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25118437 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25118437 > So a method call fire()

I agree with that. But my answer was for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25118437 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25118437 > So a method call fire() on an object Employee is more "object oriented" than having HREmployeeService.fireEmployee(employeeId) Which doesn't make sense - ignoring the "to set field employedTo directly on EmployeeDAO" because that is unrelated.