Finally fired after 6 years

#1

Post by silkodyssey » Mon, Jun 06, 2016, 8:50 PM UTC

Re: Finally fired after 6 years

#2

Post by kenperkins » Mon, Jun 06, 2016, 9:13 PM UTC

Instead of asking what else he can do, or provide more value or grow into more responsibility, he sat on his hands and played League all day?

I'm disappointed it took them 6 years to act on it.

Re: Finally fired after 6 years

#3

Post by smegel » Mon, Jun 06, 2016, 9:13 PM UTC

> doing Quality Assurance work

So I am guessing if he was actually a developer to begin with his job would have been a bit harder to automate.

Re: Finally fired after 6 years

#4

Post by minimaxir » Mon, Jun 06, 2016, 9:14 PM UTC

This is blogspam of a Reddit post. Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/4km3yc/f...

Re: Finally fired after 6 years

#5

Post by bryanrasmussen » Mon, Jun 06, 2016, 9:14 PM UTC

if he did nothing but play league of legends for 6 years how good is he at it?

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-ways-to-earn-money-p...

Re: Finally fired after 6 years

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Post by minimaxir » Mon, Jun 06, 2016, 9:17 PM UTC

smegel wrote: post #3

> doing Quality Assurance work So I am guessing if he was actually a developer to begin with his job would have been a bit harder to automate.

Speaking as a QA Engineer myself, QA is as rigorous and important to the software lifecycle as development.

The continual disrespect for QA engineers is somewhat frustrating.

Re: Finally fired after 6 years

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Post by matt_wulfeck » Mon, Jun 06, 2016, 9:19 PM UTC

I feel mostly sorry, not jealous for this guy. Even though he plays it cool, I'm sure he lived in constant fear of being discovered for six years and being speechless any questioning.

Re: Finally fired after 6 years

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Post by geofft » Mon, Jun 06, 2016, 9:19 PM UTC

smegel wrote: post #3

> doing Quality Assurance work So I am guessing if he was actually a developer to begin with his job would have been a bit harder to automate.

From the Reddit post:

> I got a job as a software developer working mostly on testing software, so mostly QA work. However I actually had to write some code as well. After around 8 months I had basically automated my own job by writing some programs to do it all for me.

It certainly doesn't look like a manual QA job.

The part that surprises me is that the tests didn't change for six years. Surely after 6 years something about a codebase changes (the build infrastructure changes, a new platform shows up, the API changes, etc.) that even black-box testing would have to adapt. Did the company not care that much about the accuracy of the tests?

Re: Finally fired after 6 years

#9

Post by _rrnv » Mon, Jun 06, 2016, 9:19 PM UTC

They fired the only guy who automated all his tasks, and did it so well nobody noticed for 6 years. They are idiots. They should have assigned him to automate the hell out of everybody else's tasks and gain tons of additional work-hours for free. This reminds me of that guy several years back who outsourced all his tasks to China and was employee of the month again and again. They also found out via IT dept, checking his strange VPN traffic. And again, fired the one guy who would be a perfect Outsource Lead. Oh well, the bots are coming, automation will rule them all, and those companies who are devoted to lines of code and employee keystrokes... Well, they will become obsolete.

Re: Finally fired after 6 years

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Post by MBCook » Mon, Jun 06, 2016, 9:20 PM UTC

kenperkins wrote: post #2

Instead of asking what else he can do, or provide more value or grow into more responsibility, he sat on his hands and played League all day? I'm disappointed it took them 6 years to act on it.

Well he was 22 at the time, so that makes a bit more sense.

Honestly I've had times on one of my jobs where I just had to kill time all day and I hated it. It's one of the reason I later decided to leave.