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Google Fired Me
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#42You were probably already "gone" once HR contacted you in June. HR's job is to protect the company, at no point were they concerned with improving your work relationship with the other employee. However, they were concerned with making sure you couldn't sue Google for wrongful termination. They gave you 6 months notice, followed up with you a few times, tied up any lose ends and then let you go.
While I do think you were already gone, it sounds like you handled things horribly during this 6 month period. You should have cut off all contact with the other person and started job hunting.
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#43Okay, yes, unrequited love hurts. A lot. But still... you acted stupidly. You were told that you weren't supposed to contact her. Doesn't matter if that's fair or legal or whatever. It's simply a bad idea to "bring up the HR issue" when walking home alone. And your conversation was probably very short mostly because it was extremely uncomfortable for her. Shortly after that you're wondering what's happening now. Inst…
And they thought it was a good idea to go to the holiday party after being fired and escorted out...
That was probably the most mind-boggling thing in the entire post. How could they possibly imagine that was an appropriate thing to do? (And, for that matter, how could someone else at Google think it was appropriate to offer a ticket under the circumstances?)
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#4433 points in 43 minutes and not on the frontpage.. would be nice to get a word from the mods why this post is taken off.
It probably wasn't mods, it doesn't take a lot of users flagging an article before it falls off the front page. It's also got a fairly high comment / point ratio, which also causes it to fall faster.
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#4533 points in 43 minutes and not on the frontpage.. would be nice to get a word from the mods why this post is taken off.
It's probably flagged by people who want to save the author from himself. Seriously, he sounds like a stalker in that post and would be well advised to take it down asap.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is why you should party or at least socialize widely in college. To get all that weird socially awkward shit over with before you're in the workplace and it impacts yours or another's career.
:-) I agree 100%. I missed that chance by isolating myself and spending every free minute in front of the computer.
Well, many people did.
The older we get, the harder it becomes to realize when you're wrong. Life isn't about always being right, it is about learning what is right. Met people of 23 who got it, met people of 37 who don't.
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#47If HR tells you "if XYZ happens, you're fired" it's time to look for a new job.
Yes. "Performance Improvement Plans" are also the kiss of death. When it looks like you're about to be placed under one, fairly or not, you should attempt to find other employment ASAP.
"Performance" can be seen as your ability to play ball with bullshit things and people at work. Outdated inefficient systems you're expected to use instead of building something new, for example. So you apply some resistance, apply initiative, and get smacked down for your efforts.
Or when you're supposed to work with someone who is an expert at sticky note presentations or motivational bullshit-speak, but literally nothing else. So you distance yourself from them and they complain to your boss that you're not keeping them in loop. Now your "communication skills" takes a hit.
If you never get in trouble at work, be worried. You might just be a boring sod who does what you're told, never takes risks and could easily be replaced. But then again, just do what you feel is right. In my case, I didn't want to die from boredom, so stirring the pot (as respectfully as possible) was required.
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#48My advice to fired guy, take a fucking hike and remove said walls of text.
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#5033 points in 43 minutes and not on the frontpage.. would be nice to get a word from the mods why this post is taken off.
Users flagged it. That's nearly always the answer to this perennial question.
In fact it would be flagkilled (i.e. marked [flagged] and closed to new comments) several times over, except the software doesn't do that when the thread has many comments.