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> We need to stop demonizing people for doing their job, successfully. Even when their job is to actively hurt you, your family, and those around you?
by nequo 4y ago
> We need to stop demonizing people for doing their job, successfully.
Even when their job is to actively hurt you, your family, and those around you?
- chairmanwow1 4y ago[flagged]
- bitsavers 4y agoIt is long past time for people to consider that working for public companies might not be in their long-term personal best interest.
- nequo 4y agoAre private companies better?
- joshuamorton 4y agoWhether or not it is my "right", firing me absolutely hurts me and my family, and and advocating for it does too. Nothing about that is a mischaracterization.
- nequo 4y agoI did not say it’s a right. If it was, we’d be talking about this in court, not in HN comments. What I said was that it hurts you if you get fired and thus it hurts your family. There is a lot of research on the negative effects of layoffs on those who are laid off. Also, not everyone is affected in the same way. For example, a US citizen or someone on a green card will need to find a new job. But someone on an H-1B is legally tied to the company that employs them. They cannot just switch jobs. But if they’re fired, they must uproot their lives, cut social ties, leave the country, and find a new job in a completely different economy. Sure, an employer has the right to fire its employees. But by firing them, the employer also has a causal effect on their well-being. And the employees are in their right minds to protest that.