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So if I get this right. An organisation told an engineer to fire someone. He built some software that told him to fire himself. He then fired someone else ba
by ionwake 6y ago
So if I get this right.
An organisation told an engineer to fire someone.
He built some software that told him to fire himself.
He then fired someone else based on Role & Salary parameters.
Then gives advice on treating people like adults when firing them.
Does anyone else find this whole thing macabre and absurd?
( I'm not being negative - Im not against the great / funny article and an attempt at a novel approach, the whole thing just seemed completely unethical dystopian and useless -
highlighting what a hard problem this is to solve - I would do no better - infact I would have been the problem - I think I just wouldn't fire anyone ).
- Jabbles 6y ago> He then fired someone else based on Role & Salary parameters. No, these were parameters to the software he wrote.
- ionwake 6y agoYep I wasn't saying it wasn't.
- barthvr 6y agoI don't see where in the article it is stated that he should fire himself ?
- ionwake 6y agoReread - look closely - he says he was on the list.
- itsdrewmiller 6y agoYou're misreading the article. He put himself on the list of people to optimize, but admitted he is sufficiently biased about his own skills that he wasn't realistically going to end up as one of the cuts.