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I 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…
I 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…
Wouldn't have to worry about firing me, I'd quit.
After that I got permission to work from home for a month and used the opportunity to find a new job.
I 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…
Unfortunately I think this person seems mentally ill. I have a friend who in his 30s became a paranoid schizophrenic and although he was very articulate, he had major flaws in his logic and behaved erratically. He also filed many lawsuits and was litigious as well. It sounds like this person was dismissed from his job (he mentioned it in one of his videos), and he hasn't been able to find employment because of his me…
Don't you think there is a good chance his mental illness is actually a result of being consumed by such an awkward situation? The details he provides about proof of employment and wrong-doing by Chrysler when asked to confirm it are very clear. If those are real, we can't tell - this looks like something a good journalist would be able to uncover, and maybe help achieving some kind of closure.
Unfortunately I think this person seems mentally ill. I have a friend who in his 30s became a paranoid schizophrenic and although he was very articulate, he had major flaws in his logic and behaved erratically. He also filed many lawsuits and was litigious as well. It sounds like this person was dismissed from his job (he mentioned it in one of his videos), and he hasn't been able to find employment because of his me…
Don't you think there is a good chance his mental illness is actually a result of being consumed by such an awkward situation? The details he provides about proof of employment and wrong-doing by Chrysler when asked to confirm it are very clear. If those are real, we can't tell - this looks like something a good journalist would be able to uncover, and maybe help achieving some kind of closure.
What _is_ clear is he can barely write, he records videos of himself outdoors that are barely audible, and even if he won this strange case, he's clearly not employable now. More than likely his mental illness started after he became an engineer and quickly progressed.
and 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…
Because this guy is, in all probability, mentally ill. There's no evidence I can find of Chrysler actually speaking to prospective employers or lying about whatever employment history he has.
Here's (what he calls) the Oakland circuit court case judgement, an appeal of his original case: http://www.michbar.org/file/opinions/appeals/2003/120403/212...
To wit: he claimed that Chrysler lied about his employment history to a perspective employer, but the only perspective employer presented as evidence testified that she hadn't even contacted Chrysler about him.
Lacking literally any evidence of wrongdoing on Chrysler's part, the case was dismissed, and this appeals court upholds that dismissal.
He lists other "case numbers", most of which I can't turn up (no pacer access here), but I suspect it's just a litany of affirmations of the original judgement, or refusals to hear the case, or that they're simply filings of various sorts that never went anywhere. This simply looks like a persecution he is suffering in his mind.
Unfortunately I think this person seems mentally ill. I have a friend who in his 30s became a paranoid schizophrenic and although he was very articulate, he had major flaws in his logic and behaved erratically. He also filed many lawsuits and was litigious as well. It sounds like this person was dismissed from his job (he mentioned it in one of his videos), and he hasn't been able to find employment because of his me…
Don't you think there is a good chance his mental illness is actually a result of being consumed by such an awkward situation? The details he provides about proof of employment and wrong-doing by Chrysler when asked to confirm it are very clear. If those are real, we can't tell - this looks like something a good journalist would be able to uncover, and maybe help achieving some kind of closure.
There are certainly aspects of his writing that might be suggestive (the graphorrhea and rambling over minor details, irrational paranoia, etc.) of certain mental illnesses. Since paranoid schizophrenia was mentioned by the parent comment, take that for example: it's not something that comes about because of a single situation later on in life. There are clear, measurable physical symptoms in that instance such as a significant and measurable difference in grey matter. That doesn't happen because of any episode you've experienced.
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Wouldn't have to worry about firing me, I'd quit.
I stuck it out until he confiscated the personal laptop of an engineer who had permission to use it on network. After that I got permission to work from home for a month and used the opportunity to find a new job.
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I stuck it out until he confiscated the personal laptop of an engineer who had permission to use it on network. After that I got permission to work from home for a month and used the opportunity to find a new job.
Do you know if (m)any of your coworkers also quit?
I had been with the company for four years at that point and I knew a lot of other old timers. Overnight it went from a flat organization with a progressive expectation that "No one is going to tell you what to do. You are here because you kick ass and we expect great things." to a strict hierarchy with several layers of management and influence.
Everyone who had been there as long as I had was equally unhappy with the new direction. This was all done under the guise of, "Getting the budget under control." when we all clearly saw the budget was fatter than ever. Where we had a diversity projects and research going on before, now we had 1 or 2 large money making projects. Where we had an expectation that we needed to be competitive and lean and every aspect mattered before, now they were hiring more and more management instead of workers.
We were doing so well that many former co-workers contacted me and other old timers during this time and we warned them off. Many simply didn't renew their contracts because they saw the writing on the wall.
Only one other person outright quit and that was really heartbreaking to watch. He had just transferred from California and the bullying was so bad he told me he was going home to stay with his sister and start going to therapy. He couldn't stand the idea of working in tech anymore.
and 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…
http://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chronic...