Why didn't he seek a (temporary) job in the service industry? Even flipping burgers would be better than being homeless. His story and writing style makes me believe he's a smart guy but possibly he unintentionally offends everyone he meets and either doesn't realize it or can't understand why.
Engineer claims he has been blacklisted by Chrysler for 17 years
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Re: Engineer claims he has been blacklisted by Chrysler for 17 years
#12Perhaps I am not understanding his situation properly. If Chrysler refuses to acknowledge that he worked there, why couldn't he apply for jobs without mentioning his experience at Chrysler?
Re: Engineer claims he has been blacklisted by Chrysler for 17 years
#13I think we've all seen a good engineer get fired because he's a pushover.
You know who doesn't get fired?
Story time: We had the most brilliant and insufferable devops engineer I've ever met. I don't mean just your standard grump overworked sys admin. This guy was a treasure. 1) Previously all engineers had 20% time and would work on personal projects. We had a ton of extra servers lying around and it was fairly simple to provision some space to work on an idea. His first week he went to the CTO and had 20% time axed and demanded that all provisioning go directly through him and all physical servers be nuked from orbit. 2) They got him a personal secretary. He routinely had her go 5 blocks to get him gummy bears, buy him a waffle iron and make him waffles in the office, and routinely made sexist comments. 3) Op sec. We would have media come by the office once in a while so this guy instituted a policy of "security through shame" If you didn't have 2factor auth on your email he would send you snide comments. If you didn't use full disk encryption you had to go to a mandatory course on personal security. If you left your laptop unlocked at your desk to go the bathroom it was prank emails and screwing with your settings. On the 3rd time he would confiscate your laptop and lock it in a personal safe he had under his desk for the day. 4) This guy would use our internal channels and slack to shame anyone non-technical. One time the personal assistant to a VP in another department accidentally posted a listing asking if anyone had a bed for sale to the channel for asking about restaurants in the area. 24hours of shame where he got the entire tech team to participate emailing everyone in the company if they had any food shaped furniture for sale. Apparently she broke down crying and had to go home for the day. 5) Despite the fact that we had no QA team this guy refused to deploy hotfixes even for critical launches. You got one day a week to launch code. You got one chance. If there was anything wrong it was, "roll back and try next week." Unless of course the issue was you needed a CDN cache clear or there was something wrong with the build. Then you could email him (directly after the deployment) and have him refuse to respond or believe you for about an hour before he would actually do anything.
These guys get promoted. They run things.
They fire the pushovers.
Re: Engineer claims he has been blacklisted by Chrysler for 17 years
#14and a copy of my Chrysler contractor ID badge How is that not the end of proof needed to a court? Unless they are claiming he made a counterfeit badge which is silly. There also have to be tax records on the state and federal side that a court can order them to retrieve? The saddest part of that whole story is what I recognize as the descent into the mental state of homelessness, because once you are there, it's REAL…
Grammar and sentence structure are bad everywhere. Might even be a form of dyslexia. No wonder nobody believes he can design a valve system.
Re: Engineer claims he has been blacklisted by Chrysler for 17 years
#15Re: Engineer claims he has been blacklisted by Chrysler for 17 years
#16I do feel bad for this guy, because I feel that the majority of what he says is true, but it just can't be true that an employer saying he didn't work somewhere that he did is effective "blacklisting". I have worked a few places and received several job offers that I declined, and don't know of one case where my previous employer was contacted. I was told by HR at a fortune 200 company that I worked for as a mechanical engineer that they would not confirm or deny to anyone that I ever even worked there. I think that contacting previous employers doesn't happen much because so many people would lie. If the prospective employee was a charismatic fool, the previous employer could gloss over incompetence. If he was a great worker, but the previous employer was sore about him leaving, they could embellish on any shortcomings. Sir, if you are reading this, let go of the past and look inside for what needs to be fixed.
Re: Engineer claims he has been blacklisted by Chrysler for 17 years
#17and a copy of my Chrysler contractor ID badge How is that not the end of proof needed to a court? Unless they are claiming he made a counterfeit badge which is silly. There also have to be tax records on the state and federal side that a court can order them to retrieve? The saddest part of that whole story is what I recognize as the descent into the mental state of homelessness, because once you are there, it's REAL…
descent*
I point it out not to be a grammar nazi, but to further a point: we all have different writing ability and/or attention to detail. The man made many more mistakes than you did, certainly, but I don't think it's necessarily a reflection of mental illness.
There's a lot of armchair mental health diagnoses in this thread, and I think they're a bit presumptuous.
Re: Engineer claims he has been blacklisted by Chrysler for 17 years
#18Re: Engineer claims he has been blacklisted by Chrysler for 17 years
#19and a copy of my Chrysler contractor ID badge How is that not the end of proof needed to a court? Unless they are claiming he made a counterfeit badge which is silly. There also have to be tax records on the state and federal side that a court can order them to retrieve? The saddest part of that whole story is what I recognize as the descent into the mental state of homelessness, because once you are there, it's REAL…
descent* I point it out not to be a grammar nazi, but to further a point: we all have different writing ability and/or attention to detail. The man made many more mistakes than you did, certainly, but I don't think it's necessarily a reflection of mental illness. There's a lot of armchair mental health diagnoses in this thread, and I think they're a bit presumptuous.
"hacker" news... don't do it the "right" way... just hack away and claim you're done.
a bunch of idiots.
Re: Engineer claims he has been blacklisted by Chrysler for 17 years
#20I think we've all seen a good engineer get fired because he's a pushover. You know who doesn't get fired? Story time: We had the most brilliant and insufferable devops engineer I've ever met. I don't mean just your standard grump overworked sys admin. This guy was a treasure. 1) Previously all engineers had 20% time and would work on personal projects. We had a ton of extra servers lying around and it was fairly simp…
Out of all of the asinine startup job postings looking for "rock stars", this guy is truly one. Awesome.