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> "Professional embarrassment" isn't really much of a punishment. That really depends on the profession. If you're a line cook at Waffle House and you get fire
by gnfargbl 3y ago
> "Professional embarrassment" isn't really much of a punishment.
That really depends on the profession. If you're a line cook at Waffle House and you get fired for coughing on the eggs, then that's probably not career-ending. If you're a software developer who deletes the production database and causes a week of downtime then that's worse, but likely still not terminal. On the other hand, this guy's income depends to a large extent on convincing his clients that they will be represented competently. Being known primarily for breathtaking incompetence will probably have a pretty significant effect on his future income.
- JohnFen 3y ago> Being known primarily for breathtaking incompetence will probably have a pretty significant effect on his future income. Perhaps so, but most people won't ever know the he's breathtakingly incompetent. It's certainly not a career-ending thing. For an error of this scale, I think that a strong argument can be made that he should choose a different career.