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Not in a negative sense, it was an ultimatum of attention focus.

jrflowers 2y ago
I remember when my neighbor’s boss gave him an amicable ultimatum of attention focus when he was splitting his time between smoking weed and serving ice cream. He wasn’t fired but simply given a set of choices about his future at Cold Stone
- hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
  Surely, he could do both if he applied himself and limited intake of weed and ice cream. PS: It's not advertised, but YC participants smoke a lot of bowls.
  - jrflowers 2y ago
    At the end of the day he was simply more passionate about gravity bong rips and surf rock than he was about dairy and a parting of ways occurred. The fact that the conversation was instigated by his boss should in no way be construed as a firing, but simply a focus of attention ultimatum that led to an ideal outcome for all parties
    - hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
      Haha and sigh. Telle est la vie de l'herbe. Contrast this with my former hippie nudist neighbors and their hydroponic weed but made millions selling electronic arcade games. Moderation and priorities, or less productivity, employment, and/or more addiction.
    - lucubratory 2y ago
      Just want you to know that your comments have been seen, appreciated, and belly laughed at even if a lot of other people apparently struggle with the concept of "fired".
      - hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
        Semantics and context. The discriminant is effect on reputation if it was for cause or not. It wasn't, it was for focus.
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- asveikau 2y ago
  There's literally a Twitter reply saying that normies only understand firing to mean you lose a job against your will, and this is something so much more sophisticated than that. It reads as parody.
  - hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
    Poe's law happens. And the beauty and horror of English is that individual words have ambiguous, authoritative meanings while also often having additional personal, subjective meanings. I vote we replace English with German and are only allowed to write sentences constructed through a grammar construction UI. ;@)
- gwern 2y ago
  I remember working a part-time job as a dishwasher where my manager demanded I stay until 1-2AM to get it right according to her and indefinitely 'fully focus' on my dishwashing duties instead of my other obligations, like to 'sleep'. I declined. Even though she and I both described it as being fired, as did everyone I ever described it to, I guess we were all just mistaken! Really, if we had been more sophisticated, we would have understood I wasn't fired, I simply 'voluntarily resigned to spend more time with my family'.

I remember when my neighbor’s boss gave him an amicable ultimatum of attention focus when he was splitting his time between smoking weed and serving ice cream. He wasn’t fired but simply given a set of choices about his future at Cold Stone

hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Surely, he could do both if he applied himself and limited intake of weed and ice cream. PS: It's not advertised, but YC participants smoke a lot of bowls.
- jrflowers 2y ago
  At the end of the day he was simply more passionate about gravity bong rips and surf rock than he was about dairy and a parting of ways occurred. The fact that the conversation was instigated by his boss should in no way be construed as a firing, but simply a focus of attention ultimatum that led to an ideal outcome for all parties
  - hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
    Haha and sigh. Telle est la vie de l'herbe. Contrast this with my former hippie nudist neighbors and their hydroponic weed but made millions selling electronic arcade games. Moderation and priorities, or less productivity, employment, and/or more addiction.
  - lucubratory 2y ago
    Just want you to know that your comments have been seen, appreciated, and belly laughed at even if a lot of other people apparently struggle with the concept of "fired".
    - hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
      Semantics and context. The discriminant is effect on reputation if it was for cause or not. It wasn't, it was for focus.
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asveikau 2y ago
There's literally a Twitter reply saying that normies only understand firing to mean you lose a job against your will, and this is something so much more sophisticated than that. It reads as parody.
- hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
  Poe's law happens. And the beauty and horror of English is that individual words have ambiguous, authoritative meanings while also often having additional personal, subjective meanings. I vote we replace English with German and are only allowed to write sentences constructed through a grammar construction UI. ;@)
gwern 2y ago
I remember working a part-time job as a dishwasher where my manager demanded I stay until 1-2AM to get it right according to her and indefinitely 'fully focus' on my dishwashing duties instead of my other obligations, like to 'sleep'. I declined. Even though she and I both described it as being fired, as did everyone I ever described it to, I guess we were all just mistaken! Really, if we had been more sophisticated, we would have understood I wasn't fired, I simply 'voluntarily resigned to spend more time with my family'.