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Only once have I had a job where I was interviewed by a HR person. The whole interview made me feel uneasy, but I took the job anyway. I should have trusted my
by exDM69 13y ago
Only once have I had a job where I was interviewed by a HR person. The whole interview made me feel uneasy, but I took the job anyway. I should have trusted my instincts and rejected the job, on the grounds that they put HR people to interview engineers with silly questions.
The job, and the working environment in particular, was horrible and I didn't stay after my probation period.
On the other hand, I was put on a dead end project and the company, despite being a rather small one, was like a big corporation where you can hide without doing anything and still get paid.
I actually read a few thousand pages of Intel programming manuals and wrote not one but two toy operating system projects and got paid for it!
- jacquesm 13y agoThere was an article posted about someone that worked for a large corporation and they forgot about him but continued to pay him for years. At the time I thought it was a hoax, after your story I'm not so sure. https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/ https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6087935 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6087935
- Blahah 13y agoIt was a hoax, but there are plenty of true stories in the same vein. What sets the parent's true story apart is that the protagonist did something productive with the time he had been given, whereas in the story you linked, the guy spends his days wasting away.
- JonnieCache 13y agoHere's another fun one, which was also posted here: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Firing-Offense.aspx http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Firing-Offense.aspx
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