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Uber reported to the state that I was fired for "annoying a coworker."
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Re: Uber reported to the state that I was fired for "annoying a coworker."
#62Re: Uber reported to the state that I was fired for "annoying a coworker."
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sometimes to me it feels like HN posts come from a different universe to mine. $10 million to answer emails on weekends seems insane. I would gladly do it for 2x the minimum wage where I live. The situation on the market is really, really desperate, especially on the lower end.
It isn't literally "answer 1 email on a Saturday occasionally" though. I've done that for a lot less. The expectation is to work 7 days/week and/or be available to work anytime. I appreciate that this is the reality for many jobs with lower pay - especially retail and fast food. Software and software-adjacent jobs are not like that though. Professionals in this field have, for the past quarter century, had better opp…
I am in software. It's just that the bargaining power of juniors and new grads has fallen through the floor, but companies are still not willing to hire any of us. I would even work the full 7 work day/week schedule (despite all its negative effects) for CA$100k - which was once considered to be just an okay rate for a mid-level dev. I bet that many people I know would also take that offer.
Re: Uber reported to the state that I was fired for "annoying a coworker."
#64Re: Uber reported to the state that I was fired for "annoying a coworker."
#65This article is vague enough to be useless. No actual evidence of the convo from the author’s side. Seek an unemployment lawyer
I am hesitant to share company DMs for obvious reasons.
The advice to seek legal representation is still probably your best course of action. If you're clearly in the right and have a paper trail showing it, you have a chance. Of course, the first thing your lawyer will advise you to do is take down the Medium post.
Re: Uber reported to the state that I was fired for "annoying a coworker."
#66Paywall links shouldn't be allowed on Hacker News. It's not possible to subscribe to every service that could be theoretically be submitted. We're not all on $350k SV wages either. That said it's hard to gauge this story as it's a one sided affair, author maybe 100% in the right but that can't really be determined.
It's 350k now? I need to catch up
Re: Uber reported to the state that I was fired for "annoying a coworker."
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
It isn't literally "answer 1 email on a Saturday occasionally" though. I've done that for a lot less. The expectation is to work 7 days/week and/or be available to work anytime. I appreciate that this is the reality for many jobs with lower pay - especially retail and fast food. Software and software-adjacent jobs are not like that though. Professionals in this field have, for the past quarter century, had better opp…
I am in software. It's just that the bargaining power of juniors and new grads has fallen through the floor, but companies are still not willing to hire any of us. I would even work the full 7 work day/week schedule (despite all its negative effects) for CA$100k - which was once considered to be just an okay rate for a mid-level dev. I bet that many people I know would also take that offer.
Your willingness to work 7 days a week might just have a correlation with companies not hiring as many people
Re: Uber reported to the state that I was fired for "annoying a coworker."
#68Wait, did you really email Uber's legal team about this without doing it through your lawyer?
Re: Uber reported to the state that I was fired for "annoying a coworker."
#69It seems like this employee was in a no-win situation. If he engaged in the non-work-related conversation the co-worker was trying to initiate, he would have been fired. If he ignored the co-worker, they would have found a reason to fire him. Instead, he responded saying he was advised to keep communication to just work topics... and he was fired. The company was clearly planning on firing him for any possible reason…
That's not true at all. I don't like HR departments, and I think they're the scum of the corporate world, especially the latest batch of HR geniuses to slither out of whatever business school swamp spawns them.
But their job is to protect the company. If you report behavior that presents a liability for the company, HR will take it seriously. I know people who've been fired through these processes.
What you shouldn't do is report frivolous complaints. A lot of people misunderstand HR the same way they misunderstand the legal system in America. They use it in place of having a grown-up conversation. Like judges, HR people will have little patience with matters that could've been resolved by putting on your big boy or big girl pants.
Re: Uber reported to the state that I was fired for "annoying a coworker."
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> they serve the interests [...of] the incumbents Yes. The employees. That's the point. > while [...] ignoring the larger consequences like the whole company Good. That is, again, the point - to advocate for the employees when their interests are in opposition to those of the company. You say they're counterproductive - sounds like they're working exactly as intended.
>You say they're counterproductive - sounds like they're working exactly as intended. it can lead to the whole company or industry to be destroyed, so while it may protect the specific incumbents it puts the whole industry/country in jeopardy. in aggregate these things can work against favour. if everyone ends up doing this the system can't work
Can you name a time it's destroyed an industry?