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My best employee quit because I wouldn’t let her go to college graduation

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Re: My best employee quit because I wouldn’t let her go to college graduation

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post #18

It's an obvious joke, isn't it, why is everybody falling for it? Plus it says she's the employee with the lowest seniority, but worked 6 years there, that's hardly believable, the whole thing is hardly believable.

Maybe the people who think this is just some troll should read a bit of /r/raisedbynarcissists

What makes you think that there aren't a metric ton of trolls there as well?

Re: My best employee quit because I wouldn’t let her go to college graduation

#52
post #18

It's an obvious joke, isn't it, why is everybody falling for it? Plus it says she's the employee with the lowest seniority, but worked 6 years there, that's hardly believable, the whole thing is hardly believable.

If you read more stories on that site, you'll see that they all have a remarkably consistent writing style, which suggests they are, at best, heavily edited. Its not beyond belief that some, even many, of them are completely fabricated.

Re: My best employee quit because I wouldn’t let her go to college graduation

#53
post #23

My partner, a developer, got fired (well, the job offer was retracted after a very well performed internship) for kindly questioning two points of the contract: one about unlimited unpaid overtime, and second one about losing all intellectual rights to ANYTHING done/written/created ANYTIME and ANYWHERE (including things not related to company's business and/or technology in own spare time, holidays and so on). I told…

IANAL, but, for the _California_ readers, I'm fairly certain a contract with a clause like 'losing all intellectual rights to ANYTHING done/written/created ANYTIME and ANYWHERE' will NEVER hold up in California court, assuming said projects are done with the employee's own time + materials.

...Which is also a strong reason why you should always avoid using/making/doing anything personal on your employer's laptop/equipment.

Re: My best employee quit because I wouldn’t let her go to college graduation

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post #23

My partner, a developer, got fired (well, the job offer was retracted after a very well performed internship) for kindly questioning two points of the contract: one about unlimited unpaid overtime, and second one about losing all intellectual rights to ANYTHING done/written/created ANYTIME and ANYWHERE (including things not related to company's business and/or technology in own spare time, holidays and so on). I told…

IANAL, but, for the _California_ readers, I'm fairly certain a contract with a clause like 'losing all intellectual rights to ANYTHING done/written/created ANYTIME and ANYWHERE' will NEVER hold up in California court, assuming said projects are done with the employee's own time + materials. ...Which is also a strong reason why you should always avoid using/making/doing anything personal on your employer's laptop/equi…

Neither would it hold up anywhere in continental Europe but I've heard some inconclusive things about UK in this regard. Well that's common law for you. As much as lawmaker is incompetent he is no competition to a brain dead judge.

Still the behaviour of the company after she raised concern clearly shows she is better off not working there.

Re: My best employee quit because I wouldn’t let her go to college graduation

#57
post #18

It's an obvious joke, isn't it, why is everybody falling for it? Plus it says she's the employee with the lowest seniority, but worked 6 years there, that's hardly believable, the whole thing is hardly believable.

Maybe the people who think this is just some troll should read a bit of /r/raisedbynarcissists

Aka /r/teenagers

Re: My best employee quit because I wouldn’t let her go to college graduation

#59
post #18

It's an obvious joke, isn't it, why is everybody falling for it? Plus it says she's the employee with the lowest seniority, but worked 6 years there, that's hardly believable, the whole thing is hardly believable.

> employee with the lowest seniority, but worked 6 years there, that's hardly believable

That was my gut reaction too. It's essentially a call center.

Also, I have a hard time believing that the type of person/manager that would handle a situation in such an inhumane manner (the sociopathic boss) would paint themselves in such an obvious bad light. Two different personality types.

It would have been slightly more believable if the girl (orphan?, dozens of foster homes, homeless, best employee by far, graduates against all odds by working nights, made-for-tv Lifetime Sepcial...) had written it.

Re: My best employee quit because I wouldn’t let her go to college graduation

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post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe the people who think this is just some troll should read a bit of /r/raisedbynarcissists

What makes you think that there aren't a metric ton of trolls there as well?

Just go to /r/raisedby/r/raisedbynarcissists
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