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As a fellow YC founder, just wanted to pipe in to say this whole thread really isn’t a good look. Whether or not the employee was right or wrong, it’s probably
by cj 4y ago
As a fellow YC founder, just wanted to pipe in to say this whole thread really isn’t a good look.
Whether or not the employee was right or wrong, it’s probably best to just leave and accept the conversation where it is.
Edit: changed “your employee” to “the employee”
- tptacek 4y agoThis person was not my employee. Even if I had been at the firm at the same time, he still wouldn't have been my employee. It bothers me that they've continued to claim over the years that they were "fired for narcolepsy". The NCC I'm familiar with paid multiple people for years who weren't able to deliver work because of health issues, and did so without blinking. There's not a lot that I especially like about NCC management, but their handling of health and disability issues would have been at the bottom of my list of complaints.
- cj 4y agoEdited my comment to say “the employee” instead of “your employee”. Either way, this thread really isn’t a very good look for you or the person you’re responding to. Sometimes not engaging is better than engaging. (And here is when I myself will stop engaging…)
- thaumasiotes 4y ago> It bothers me that they've continued to claim over the years that they were "fired for narcolepsy". The NCC I'm familiar with paid multiple people for years who weren't able to deliver work because of health issues, and did so without blinking. Maybe they've got special policies on health. I am not impressed with NCC Group's firing policies. I was fired because, as far as I can see, I was recruited to the bug bounty team with an offered perk (work from anywhere), I said I wanted the perk, they said no problem, my boss was promoted, and the new boss didn't want to allow the perk. He made repeated comments to the effect that he wasn't comfortable having me on his team after I'd made a request that he wasn't willing to grant immediately. He also told me that, if the worst came to the worst, I would be transferred back to active consultant status rather than being fired, which didn't happen.
- tptacek 4y agoI am certainly not sticking up for NCC's policies about firing, or even Matasano's.
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- nr2x 4y ago
- tptacek 4y agoI'm fine with that. I'm not writing here to make myself look better, just to correct the record. Some pathological shit happens at US security consultancies; it's just (in the main) not the stuff this person is talking about. Again: I have never worked with this person, despite their claims and implications to the contrary. Further, I went way out of my way not to be a people manager (and still do). Nobody reports to me; that's not a thing I'm good at, as I'm probably making evident.