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Perhaps I'm too cynical now, but to me this post reads as a troll trying to get a rise out of people.

ericbarrett 6y ago
It couldn’t have been more precisely tuned to generate outrage, I agree. And yet I’ve seen almost exactly this situation play out before. In my case it was a storage company who didn’t appreciate the senior engineer who worked with all the SAN providers. Whoops!
- selestify 6y ago
  For every fake story, there’s a real one out there that’s spiritually equivalent.
  - andrewflnr 6y ago
    This is dangerously close to the "but isn't it crazy that I could have believed it?" fallacy or, more broadly, justifying making up stories to push an agenda because it's "spiritually equivalent" to a real one. Please don't. Truth still matters.
    - selestify 6y ago
      That’s fair. I think the morals of such stories are still worth considering, though. Or is there harm in such moralistic stories that I’m missing?
      - andrewflnr 6y ago
        They're fine if they're explicitly tagged as fables rather than facts.
  - hhas01 6y ago
    Oh, you have to go down that rabbithole. https://notalwaysright.com/engineering-a-problem/61642/ https://notalwaysright.com/engineering-a-problem/61642/ Trust in notalwaysright.com/all to suck up even more of your life than the orange site already does. Also, clientsfromhell.net and askamanager.org. And I’m certain the Daily WTF, Acts of Gord, and BOFH need zero introduction here. Good luck in trying to distinguish if it’s day or night—never mind what’s true or false—by the time you’re done with that little lot!
- spoopyskelly 6y ago
  > It couldn’t have been more precisely tuned to generate outrage Some mention about Code of Conduct type stuff would have added another good outrage angle.
rualca 6y ago
> Perhaps I'm too cynical now, but to me this post reads as a troll trying to get a rise out of people. Might be. I don't know. What I do know is that once I had a job where my supervisor was highly abusive to the point she criticized me for having left the office during an afternoon due to a close relative dying. This was a research job, where the closest milestone was scheduled to be in 3 months. In that job I had a fixed-term employment contract structured in a way which it was automatically extended for 6 months when it expired. Thus I waited out my contract, looked for another job and presented my resignation. Well, that didn't sat well with my supervisor. She started complaining that we had work to do and I couldn't just leave because I owed her at least six to eight months work. Even though she was aware I was no longer an employee, mind you. She demanded I continued working for her in spite of the resignation while a) not being paid, and b) while working another full-time job. She even demanded (not asked, demanded) that I should ask my new employer for a 1 year delay so that I could continue doing her work. Well, I left anyway and still she continued trying to contact me periodically about stuff at the job up to a year or two after I left. I'm talking about stuff from high level technical issues to passwords to an old windows 7 desktop that was sitting around. So, I personally don't see Gust's story as outlandish.
- nullsense 6y ago
  Yikes. What a nutjob.
Lammy 6y ago
I wondered this too as soon as I got to “(It’s just code, after all)”.

It couldn’t have been more precisely tuned to generate outrage, I agree. And yet I’ve seen almost exactly this situation play out before. In my case it was a storage company who didn’t appreciate the senior engineer who worked with all the SAN providers. Whoops!

selestify 6y ago
For every fake story, there’s a real one out there that’s spiritually equivalent.
- andrewflnr 6y ago
  This is dangerously close to the "but isn't it crazy that I could have believed it?" fallacy or, more broadly, justifying making up stories to push an agenda because it's "spiritually equivalent" to a real one. Please don't. Truth still matters.
  - selestify 6y ago
    That’s fair. I think the morals of such stories are still worth considering, though. Or is there harm in such moralistic stories that I’m missing?
    - andrewflnr 6y ago
      They're fine if they're explicitly tagged as fables rather than facts.
- hhas01 6y ago
  Oh, you have to go down that rabbithole. https://notalwaysright.com/engineering-a-problem/61642/ https://notalwaysright.com/engineering-a-problem/61642/ Trust in notalwaysright.com/all to suck up even more of your life than the orange site already does. Also, clientsfromhell.net and askamanager.org. And I’m certain the Daily WTF, Acts of Gord, and BOFH need zero introduction here. Good luck in trying to distinguish if it’s day or night—never mind what’s true or false—by the time you’re done with that little lot!
spoopyskelly 6y ago
> It couldn’t have been more precisely tuned to generate outrage Some mention about Code of Conduct type stuff would have added another good outrage angle.

rualca 6y ago

> Perhaps I'm too cynical now, but to me this post reads as a troll trying to get a rise out of people. Might be. I don't know. What I do know is that once I had a job where my supervisor was highly abusive to the point she criticized me for having left the office during an afternoon due to a close relative dying. This was a research job, where the closest milestone was scheduled to be in 3 months. In that job I had a fixed-term employment contract structured in a way which it was automatically extended for 6 months when it expired. Thus I waited out my contract, looked for another job and presented my resignation. Well, that didn't sat well with my supervisor. She started complaining that we had work to do and I couldn't just leave because I owed her at least six to eight months work. Even though she was aware I was no longer an employee, mind you. She demanded I continued working for her in spite of the resignation while a) not being paid, and b) while working another full-time job. She even demanded (not asked, demanded) that I should ask my new employer for a 1 year delay so that I could continue doing her work. Well, I left anyway and still she continued trying to contact me periodically about stuff at the job up to a year or two after I left. I'm talking about stuff from high level technical issues to passwords to an old windows 7 desktop that was sitting around. So, I personally don't see Gust's story as outlandish.

nullsense 6y ago
Yikes. What a nutjob.

Lammy 6y ago

I wondered this too as soon as I got to “(It’s just code, after all)”.