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What does it feel like to be fired from Facebook?

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Re: What does it feel like to be fired from Facebook?

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Post by hoopism »

If you are considering writing a post like this ask yourself: "Am I comfortable telling people the cause". If the answer is no then you shouldn't write a post like this.

I know he mentions that it's for "privacy reasons"... but any rational person is going to conclude that you are not disclosing the reason because it reflects poorly on you and undermines your gripe.

Now if you are comfortable disclosing the cause, then perhaps there is some value to be gained in raising the issue. But not disclosing is a no-win situation... right or wrong you will be perceived to be in the wrong.

EDIT:

Funny that I get downvoted, yet most comments are basically "Clearly this person did something worse than they realize..."

Re: What does it feel like to be fired from Facebook?

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Post by fulafel »

littletinman wrote: post #3
GFK_of_xmaspast wrote: post #2

I gotta wonder what that anon guy did to get fired.

This is another one of those "I got fired but I won't tell you why" posts. There was another post on here not too long ago about a guy, who for very vague reasons, got fired from Google. I don't understand why you wouldn't disclose why you got fired if you are going to write a post about how you feel after getting fired. It doesn't help anyone else because we don't know what mistake you made that we should avoid. It…

> I don't understand why you wouldn't disclose why you got fired if you are going to write a post about how you feel after getting fired.

He wrote "I won't go into what it was to protect my identity and that of all involved." So the person thinks it would be easy for Facebook or his former coworkers to identify the case if he told us what specific policy violation (s)he was fired for.

Re: What does it feel like to be fired from Facebook?

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Post by empressplay »

It's unlikely Facebook would fire anyone without the complainant having enough of a case to be legally actionable. Thus, it's safe I think to assume that there was a pattern of unsolicited advances towards an individual. I admit this is conjecture, but it's a common story and as such makes a valid theory for what happened here.

Re: What does it feel like to be fired from Facebook?

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Post by empressplay »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #9

At a previous job, I had a Sys Admin who once wrote a guy up because he used telnet instead of SSH to connect to a client's server. All I could think while reading the article was, "He must've used telnet..."

shoulda fired whoever left telnet running on the client's server first?

Re: What does it feel like to be fired from Facebook?

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Post by ska »

It seems a little bizarre to me to think of being fired as being very meaningfully company specific.

How is the answer not: "Largely like many other places of a similar size and structure"? In a place with a particularly interesting corporate structure or decision making process it might be unusual, but Facebook?

Re: What does it feel like to be fired from Facebook?

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Post by empressplay »

forgetsusername wrote: post #8

> For instance, on harassment: telling a coworker of either gender that you like their clothes can be reported as harassment What a terrible society we're developing for ourselves.

Generally when there's a termination it's because there's a pattern, not a one-off thing.

Edit: People who get fired want to believe that they did one "stupid" thing and it was "unfair" they were fired. Hiring a new person and training them up isn't exactly cheap, easy or straightforward. I realise there are exceptions but logic would tend to suggest that in most cases businesses don't fire people for one-off mistakes.

Re: What does it feel like to be fired from Facebook?

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Post by empressplay »

littletinman wrote: post #7
[deleted] wrote: post #4

[deleted]

To one extreme, this could be a case of "an unsolicited pat on the rear" being perceived by the offender as "a high five" and to the offended "a disturbing invasion or personal space." On other extreme it could be he "chucked a tennis ball and it broke an office window." Everyone's perception these days of the extent/effect of any offense seems to broad that without details... what's the point of articles like these?

The hiring process is so onerous that I don't think it's believable when someone says they were fired over a single incident. Generally there's a pattern of counter-productive behaviour.

Re: What does it feel like to be fired from Facebook?

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Post by afandian »

empressplay wrote: post #16
forgetsusername wrote: post #8

> For instance, on harassment: telling a coworker of either gender that you like their clothes can be reported as harassment What a terrible society we're developing for ourselves.

Generally when there's a termination it's because there's a pattern, not a one-off thing. Edit: People who get fired want to believe that they did one "stupid" thing and it was "unfair" they were fired. Hiring a new person and training them up isn't exactly cheap, easy or straightforward. I realise there are exceptions but logic would tend to suggest that in most cases businesses don't fire people for one-off mistake…

Going by the way the rules were applied in the (somewhat mysterious original post) there's no reason to believe the rules are applied in this way.

Re: What does it feel like to be fired from Facebook?

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Post by branchless »

littletinman wrote: post #3
GFK_of_xmaspast wrote: post #2

I gotta wonder what that anon guy did to get fired.

This is another one of those "I got fired but I won't tell you why" posts. There was another post on here not too long ago about a guy, who for very vague reasons, got fired from Google. I don't understand why you wouldn't disclose why you got fired if you are going to write a post about how you feel after getting fired. It doesn't help anyone else because we don't know what mistake you made that we should avoid. It…

I read it more as a log of the process rather than a call to judge. Human nature is to want to know "did he deserve it", but read as a tale of process that info isn't necessary.
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