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Re: Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?

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Post by timwaagh » Thu, Oct 03, 2019, 4:00 PM UTC

Waterluvian wrote: post #72

I don't want to be fired. I absolutely love my job and the people I work with. But I can just smell that we are about to hit a sticking point with how I don't do on call (it was never mentioned in the interviews or part of my contract) and I don't respond to work after 5pm. If it does come to that sticking point I'm trying to figure out how to be the most assertive and diplomatic. I.e. How do I convey that I badly wa…

If you are worrying about keeping your job you are not in a position to set terms at all. You must be willing and somewhat eager to lose it.

Re: Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?

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Post by benbristow » Thu, Oct 03, 2019, 4:06 PM UTC

perl4ever wrote: post #181

reificator wrote: post #115

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> What's are the arguments against version control here (if any)? * I don't understand it * You're overcomplicating things * We're not using any of that free shit here * It doesn't say Microsoft or IBM * The last guy we hired that tried to use it was smarter than I was so anyone else who tries is a threat to my leadership. (because everyone knows you can only manage people who have a strict subset of your own knowled…

I'm not sure what the answer is for version control, but I refuse to accept it's Git. I don't understand how it became so popular - did nobody say "wait, there might be a reason why Linus is known for cloning an OS and not coming up with a brilliant design for one from scratch?"

Git is great. Lightweight, scales effortlessly, learning curve isn’t too bad, decentralised by design and because it’s so widely adopted it works pretty much everywhere.

What else are you gonna use? SVN? shudder

Re: Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?

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Post by JamesBarney » Thu, Oct 03, 2019, 4:06 PM UTC

spag1024 wrote: post #555

paulcole wrote: post #209

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HIPAA is absolutely to be trifled with. Look up who is actually fined and face actual consequences from HIPAA violations. It is 99.99% big universities, hospitals, and insurance companies. Everyone else gets (at most) a slap on the wrist and has to promise not to do it again. Once in a while they’ll fine a small family practitioner $25k for not shredding papers properly but it’s a total joke. HIPAA Compliance Service…

Agreed. The organization would likely get fined for a breach, not the engineer. I work a senior IT role in Healthcare and I've seen what breaches look like. I've never even heard of someone going to prison, let alone for what this story tells.

Yeah to go to prison you have to really screw up, in a way that is malicious and willful. Though the CEO driving over to his MLM buddy with a thumbdrive of PHI might do it.

Re: Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?

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Post by reifnir » Thu, Oct 03, 2019, 4:07 PM UTC

mbarronj wrote: post #655

sbfeibish wrote: post #623

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"I thought throwing myself from my apartment window." You got it backwards. You think of throwing your manager out the apartment window.

The best Defenestration is a good Offenestration

Stealing that!

Re: Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?

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Post by cuddlecake » Thu, Oct 03, 2019, 4:07 PM UTC

hobofan wrote: post #688

systematical wrote: post #610

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How did you know I am suffering from insomnia lately?

> I'm tired.

I can relate to that.

Re: Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?

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Post by thorwasdfasdf » Thu, Oct 03, 2019, 4:08 PM UTC

dav1app wrote: post #403

On my last job, a new manager called me for a meeting on Friday 4PM. I spent the whole month on an extremely stressful project. The meeting was about an app that integrates credit card payments, billets and bank account on a terminal that is going to be available to the general public. The deadline? 11PM of the same day. Final version. From 0 to 100% in 6 hours. I said that it was impossible. He said that I was incap…

The problem is. People think that when you don't live up to unrealistic expectations that it's their own fault, when really it's just egregriously poor management. In my experience, whenevever someone isn't meeting expectations, it means 95% of the time the problem is the manager. the solution as you found, is to leave and find somewhere else that values your hard work.

Re: Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?

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Post by hluska » Thu, Oct 03, 2019, 4:09 PM UTC

throwaway58129 wrote: post #64

I didn't know this format was a thing and am so very excited to discover it. I hope you folks enjoy reading horror stories. I got a job as a Software Engineer in my current company 4.5 years ago; friend-of-a-friend sort of thing. The company had an apparently disastrous piece of software that was their main LOB. They had gone through pretty much every local consulting agency - at least once, on a few occasions they h…

I shouldn’t find anything this horrific this entertaining. But, I’d get cable for this show!! :)

Re: Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?

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Post by Grangar » Thu, Oct 03, 2019, 4:19 PM UTC

shifto wrote: post #701

Grangar wrote: post #654

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I can neither confirm nor deny before I get another gig, I don't want to burn any bridges prematurely just in case. What company are you thinking of?

The one in the Zaltbommel area. I don't want to be too specific either, I know a few folks over there. :)

Nope, that's not it. You're saying I should avoid Zaltbommel then?

Re: Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 03, 2019, 4:20 PM UTC

toop43 wrote: post #336

nexus2045 wrote: post #311

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I’m currently prepping for these kind of questions and “online assessments” as well. I have accepted that my worth as a developer is in most part going to be dictated by how diligently I can game this glorified IQ test. There are common patterns to these questions and I’ve found that they get more predictable after having done 50-100 of them, with very careful attentiveness to what your mind is coming up with to solv…

So I recently switched up my approach on leetcode.com to optimize for this naturally. What I was doing initially was: I sorted their entire problems database for the most frequently asked questions. Started at the top, and worked my way down. The problem with this method is that each question can be quite different from the last. Your first question might be an arrays / sliding-window question. The next is a dynamic…

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Re: Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?

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Post by Random_Person » Thu, Oct 03, 2019, 4:23 PM UTC

abledon wrote: post #714

Random_Person wrote: post #679

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It's not that I don't have work. I have plenty of things I could be doing on a daily basis. It's that there is no direction. No plan. No priority. I just show up and do whatever I do and go home. Once a week, I send a report to my supervisor of my activities for the week. My projects are entirely separate from the other developers here, so it's not really an option for me to go sit with them and co-work because we do…

How does your company make money? Thats the priority. Make whatever they have to do.. to make money.. easier. Also, bring up Silo-effect with your supervisor and let him know you wanna go meet the other team, go take a cookie tin or some beer or whatever to the other team and introduce yourself and hang out 30mins in the morning or something just to get a feel for what theyre doing/pain poitns etc... ask questions to…

We don't. We are a state agency. Apathy is rampant.