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A lot of missing details here, funny the headline makes the boss seem heartless for doing something so unprofessional when the text reveals it's because the author pestered him while he was on vacation.
Surely the article was in satire? If nothing else, pestering the boss while on vacation is a bad sign.
slack isn't fit for purpose. the missing messages will eventually show up but long after the negative impact has been realized.
Damn what an insufferable person the author seems to be. I get it, what happened sucks for you, but maybe grow up.
You could have gotten paid for a few more weeks (and maybe even secured a severance) had you been patient and let the official layoff notice come to you.
Learn and move on.
Even the introductory sentence has the puzzling statement “one of my jobs” which raises a lot of questions. Was this person over-employed? Was this part-time contracting situation?
This is just anger bait.
A lot of missing details here, funny the headline makes the boss seem heartless for doing something so unprofessional when the text reveals it's because the author pestered him while he was on vacation.
to be fair, slack not delivering messages is a very typical failure mode in my experience. slack isn't fit for purpose. the missing messages will eventually show up but long after the negative impact has been realized.
I've used it full time for years and never had a "didn't you get that message?" situation in a DM
The author comes across as unsympathetic because he seems to have a near-total failure to model the world. He can model one resentful aspect of it, but not the rest. > He said he was letting me go because my department was the most expensive in the agency, and that last month the company closed in the red for the very first time. He told me, very sadly, that he even had to take out a loan to pay his mortgage, and tha…
Either this person was a part-time contractor, where being cut during down times comes with the territory, or they were overemployed with multiple jobs, which comes with a tendency to do sub-par work and communication from being overcommitted.
If a senior engineer who's supposed to be independent and who knows that messages me on a personal number while I'm on vacation, I probably wouldn't fire them immediately, but that person is unlikely to be considered a high performer.
Totally different situation for a panicking junior, which is a situation that means I've done something more wrong.
The author comes across as unsympathetic because he seems to have a near-total failure to model the world. He can model one resentful aspect of it, but not the rest. > He said he was letting me go because my department was the most expensive in the agency, and that last month the company closed in the red for the very first time. He told me, very sadly, that he even had to take out a loan to pay his mortgage, and tha…
The manager/owner failed to manage in any number of ways (graceful exits, cash flow, task assignment), and then brought his personal problems to a firing (you should not - ever - mention your own financial issues while firing an employee from your Hawaiian vacation).
You are right that business is transactional, but there is the underlying notion of goodwill (which accountants can and do put on the balance sheet). It is the reason why we tell our old employer that we are leaving in two weeks instead of ghosting them the day our new job starts. It is the reason that you don’t fire people over text from a Hawaiian vacation. You don’t want to be the employee with the reputation for giving no notice, and you don’t want to be the employer with a reputation for firing people heartlessly. The employer in this case significantly reduced the goodwill part of their balance sheet to save a few weeks of salary for this guy. Do you think the other employees won’t read this? What will the morale hit among other employees cost the business? Would you stay at a business where the owner is firing people like this while admitting to personal financial problems?