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I'm a senior dev with 25 years experience. This happened to me at Blackfire.io. All of my reviews were glowing from day one and my boss loved me until suddenly

I'm a senior dev with 25 years experience. This happened to me at Blackfire.io. All of my reviews were glowing from day one and my boss loved me until suddenly one day, he calls me at an odd time of day looking shaken, to tell me that my performance has been bad since the day I started (a year prior). When I pressed for specifics, all I could get him to say was "You haven't been stepping up enough." (despite the many innovations I added, including one that changed the turnaround time for a specific task from a full day to an hour). When I asked how I could improve, he said "We'll talk about that later." 2 weeks later I was fired. It was an illegal firing under EU law, but I wasn't in the mood to go through the annoyance of the legal system so I just moved on. This was about a month after I balked when the company tried to take ownership over an open source project of mine (which they never ended up using because it also by necessity has very dangerous code to be able to do its thing).

pg_1234 4y ago
If it is an illegal firing, even if you move on, can't you at least sue them for lost pay? Always make them pay.
sschueller 4y ago
Don't ever let these people get away with this illegal shit because they will do it again. In some countries it is enough to report them and provide a little paper work. The rest the government will do. Uber owes almost a billion in non paid social security and worker expenses in Switzerland. They are now finally going to be forced to pay. Any other company thinking they can pull the same scam will think twice now.
- glaucon 4y ago
  > Uber owes almost a billion in non paid social security and worker expenses in Switzerland I totally agree with your basic point, but can the amount you've mentioned be true ? I'm assuming you referring to "almost a billion" USD. Tesla sold ~5,000 cars in Switzerland last year. The European HQ is in Netherlands and manufacturing/assembly is split between Netherlands/Germany, so I'm assuming that Swiss employees are essentially sales/service. For a hundred cars a week how many of them can there be ?
  - sschueller 4y ago
    It was estimated at half a billion in 2019[1]. Drivers are missing all social security payments, pension, overtime, weekend rate, etc. etc. [1] https://www.20min.ch/story/uber-soll-fahrern-eine-halbe-milliarde-schulden-646772268209 https://www.20min.ch/story/uber-soll-fahrern-eine-halbe-mill...
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pg_1234 4y ago

If it is an illegal firing, even if you move on, can't you at least sue them for lost pay? Always make them pay.

sschueller 4y ago

Don't ever let these people get away with this illegal shit because they will do it again. In some countries it is enough to report them and provide a little paper work. The rest the government will do. Uber owes almost a billion in non paid social security and worker expenses in Switzerland. They are now finally going to be forced to pay. Any other company thinking they can pull the same scam will think twice now.

glaucon 4y ago
> Uber owes almost a billion in non paid social security and worker expenses in Switzerland I totally agree with your basic point, but can the amount you've mentioned be true ? I'm assuming you referring to "almost a billion" USD. Tesla sold ~5,000 cars in Switzerland last year. The European HQ is in Netherlands and manufacturing/assembly is split between Netherlands/Germany, so I'm assuming that Swiss employees are essentially sales/service. For a hundred cars a week how many of them can there be ?
- sschueller 4y ago
  It was estimated at half a billion in 2019[1]. Drivers are missing all social security payments, pension, overtime, weekend rate, etc. etc. [1] https://www.20min.ch/story/uber-soll-fahrern-eine-halbe-milliarde-schulden-646772268209 https://www.20min.ch/story/uber-soll-fahrern-eine-halbe-mill...

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