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From a bit ago: We fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made. - https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/we-fired-our-top-talent-best-decision-we-ever-made-4c0
by shagie 4y ago
From a bit ago:
We fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made. - https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/we-fired-our-top-talent-best-decision-we-ever-made-4c0a99728fde/ https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/we-fired-our-top-talent-be... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15474893 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15474893 125 comments; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32211953 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32211953 30 comments)
> “You will never be able to understand any of what I’ve created. I am Albert F**ing Einstein and you are all monkeys scrabbling in the dirt.”
> And so our resident genius, our Dr. Jekyll, explosively completed his transformation into Mr. Hyde.
> He declared this in front of the product design team, developers, management, and pre-launch customers. One of our project sponsors had the temerity to ask when the problem crippling our product would be fixed.
And then follow up:
A team reborn after the fiery departure of its misanthropic guru - https://blog.solha.co/life-after-rick-our-team-reborn-after-the-fiery-departure-of-our-misanthropic-guru-b1fbaf3b8621 https://blog.solha.co/life-after-rick-our-team-reborn-after-...
- ARandomerDude 4y agoGreat read, thanks for (re)sharing. Amazing how much of this resonates with behaviors I've seen over the past few years.
- JohnMakin 4y agoThanks for reposting this. Sounds so eerily similar to my last principal that I wonder if it's the same guy, although I'm sure this is a common phenomenon.
- oblio 4y agohttps://workchronicles.com/prevention-and-cure/ https://workchronicles.com/prevention-and-cure/
- mike_hock 4y agoAwesome. They fired him after he'd become burned out and snapped, but were perfectly happy to let him grind away day and night for years while the rest of the team was twiddling thumbs.