Uber reported to the state that I was fired for "annoying a coworker."
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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."
#2Paywall 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.
Re: Uber reported to the state that I was fired for "annoying a coworker."
#3Shit, HR doesn't even exist to protect the company sometimes. Sometimes they get so cancerous that they start to operate as if the company works for them.
Hence my megacorp's most recent CEO fired the CPO, and hired a long time former company employee with no HR background to go clean house of the infestation of Vice-Vice-Vice-Vice-Vice-Vice-Vice-Vice Presidents in HR.
Re: Uber reported to the state that I was fired for "annoying a coworker."
#4Paywall 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.
i don't get a paywall when accessing (maybe ublock?) but either way:
Re: Uber reported to the state that I was fired for "annoying a coworker."
#5what could be the reason from the other side if we had to think of one?
Re: Uber reported to the state that I was fired for "annoying a coworker."
#6It 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.
His first mistake was complaining to HR about another employee griefing him. HR is always going to consider the initial complainer as "the problem."
Re: Uber reported to the state that I was fired for "annoying a coworker."
#7Paywall 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.
God forbid we support journalism that -- gasp -- costs money.
Regardless, in this instance it's someone's blog.
Re: Uber reported to the state that I was fired for "annoying a coworker."
#8This article is vague enough to be useless. No actual evidence of the convo from the author’s side. Seek an unemployment lawyer
Re: Uber reported to the state that I was fired for "annoying a coworker."
#9What made HR act in this way? They clearly felt they were protecting the company by firing this person, but they've done nothing wrong and it's unclear they posed any kind of threat to the company. Certainly the complaint about his co-worker would not be perceived as a threat.
I will give some weight to the possibility that Uber HR are utterly disfunctional, but on balance I'm left with the impression there's more to this story than we're being told.
Re: Uber reported to the state that I was fired for "annoying a coworker."
#10The fact this person could not get an attorney to represent them says a lot.