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Re: Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?

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Post by throwaway29488 »

throwaway76576 wrote: post #26
throwaway29488 wrote: post #2

Not with the job in particular, just want to take a break from tech especially from being a programmer. Tired of staring at a screen for 80% of my awake time and constant puzzle solving. Sick of people in this industry making you feel you're not smart enough, that you're not enough no matter how many times you prove yourself in past work.

Same. Have been thinking about taking a 6-month sabbatical from all things tech, but then worried I might just become so obsolete and out of touch that I'd rather suck it up.

yup I have the exact same worry, I have a little side business unrelated to tech that is profitting about 500-1k depending on the month. Considering taking a leave to work on that fulltime but also worried when I come back I'd just become completely out of touch.

Re: Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?

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Post by throwaway7137 »

Getting told by my director that the product manager thought it was rude when I answered a question by sending them a link to the answer in the relevant documentation.

I guess this is why nothing else at this company is documented, because why write things down when you can waste multiple people's time repeating things.

Re: Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?

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Post by ChuckNorris89 »

_bxg1 wrote: post #11
anon4lol wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not. They should do what I do -- silently "crop dust" the other cubicles as I drift past on my way to an unimportant meeting. But seriously, I have a cubicle-mate that goes through a box of tissues every two days. He is constantly grunting and blowing his nose. He also spends 15 minutes brushing and flossing in the bathroom twice per day. I say 15 minutes, because he has his phone propped up with a timer. Every…

I had a similar experience with a mechanical keyboard so loud I could hear it through my Bose noise-cancelling headphones. Fortunately a spot opened up in a different room and I jumped on it.

OMG, you must be a colleague from my old team. :)

My ex boss bought a mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX Blue switches(the loud clicky ones) that would penetrate my noise cancelling headphones and gave everyone in our shared office 'Nam PTSD flashbacks.

Nobody dared to complain to him about that. Still wondering if he did that on purpose to troll us or he was just really indifferent about the others in the office.

Re: Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?

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Post by commandlinefan »

120bits wrote: post #23
0xDEFC0DE wrote: post #20

After 8 hours total interviewing at one company, I kinda feel like I was hired and fired in a single day

WOW! That would very exhausting.. is this norm these days to have full day interview sessions?

A couple years ago I had TWO full-day interview sessions with a single company. That I had to take time off of my then-current job to attend. After a one-hour phone screen. Who ended up not hiring me anyway.

Re: Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?

#45

Post by ChuckNorris89 »

commandlinefan wrote: post #44
120bits wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

WOW! That would very exhausting.. is this norm these days to have full day interview sessions?

A couple years ago I had TWO full-day interview sessions with a single company. That I had to take time off of my then-current job to attend. After a one-hour phone screen. Who ended up not hiring me anyway.

Unless the position was for serious fuck you money and I really needed it, there's no way in hell I would tolerate 2 full day interviews.

I'm also guilty for spending lots of after work days studying for jobs I really wanted and getting rejected but at least I didn't burn any of my precious vacation days.

Re: Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?

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Post by codelemur »

crimsonalucard wrote: post #39
bitwize wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I once worked one desk over from a bloke who did CrossFit in the middle of the day, and for some reason had to hang up his damp, sweaty, reeking gym things on the substructure of his desk to dry when he got back. I had to lay down a protective Lysol force field to protect myself. Oh, and this was at $LARGE_SEARCH_ENGINE_COMPANY, who treat contractors as subhuman scum, not even entitled to a laptop so they can work in…

Large search engine company??? Altavista? Excite.com? Duckduckgo?

Probably AskJeeves

Re: Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?

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Post by _bxg1 »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #43
_bxg1 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had a similar experience with a mechanical keyboard so loud I could hear it through my Bose noise-cancelling headphones. Fortunately a spot opened up in a different room and I jumped on it.

OMG, you must be a colleague from my old team. :) My ex boss bought a mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX Blue switches(the loud clicky ones) that would penetrate my noise cancelling headphones and gave everyone in our shared office 'Nam PTSD flashbacks. Nobody dared to complain to him about that. Still wondering if he did that on purpose to troll us or he was just really indifferent about the others in the office.

There's something about the sound of clacking keyboards that's more intolerable to me than nails on a chalkboard. It's pretty inconsiderate to use a mechanical one in a shared office

Re: Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?

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Post by faissaloo »

anon4lol wrote: post #7
oldsklgdfth wrote: post #4

My office mates audibly fart throughout the day and act like it's normal. Pretty sure it's not.

It's not. They should do what I do -- silently "crop dust" the other cubicles as I drift past on my way to an unimportant meeting. But seriously, I have a cubicle-mate that goes through a box of tissues every two days. He is constantly grunting and blowing his nose. He also spends 15 minutes brushing and flossing in the bathroom twice per day. I say 15 minutes, because he has his phone propped up with a timer. Every…

Sounds like OCD or at least severe germophobia.

Re: Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?

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Post by commandlinefan »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #45
commandlinefan wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A couple years ago I had TWO full-day interview sessions with a single company. That I had to take time off of my then-current job to attend. After a one-hour phone screen. Who ended up not hiring me anyway.

Unless the position was for serious fuck you money and I really needed it, there's no way in hell I would tolerate 2 full day interviews. I'm also guilty for spending lots of after work days studying for jobs I really wanted and getting rejected but at least I didn't burn any of my precious vacation days.

I fell prey to the “sunk cost” fallacy - after the first full day when they asked me to come back, I thought: a) it would be a shame to “waste” that first full day of interviewing by saying no now and b) surely nobody would be a big enough asshole to ask me to take two full days off of work to interview with them only to reject me after the second day, so surely this second day is just a formality.

Apparently I was wrong.

And no, it was just a regular programming job, nothing special.

Re: Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?

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Post by preordained »

oldsklgdfth wrote: post #4

My office mates audibly fart throughout the day and act like it's normal. Pretty sure it's not.

As an experiment, you should let one rip at an opportune moment. Should be enlightening whether they carry on as if this is indeed normal or try to gaslight you about your strange behavior...
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