Ask HN: Founders, what is the worst experience you had with developers?

Re:Ask HN: Founders, what is the worst experience you had wi... by travelbuffoon on Saturday October 20, 2018 @04:34PM (#18265287)

Mine wanted to get paid. Can you imagine it? Building the best product ever just wasn't enough.

P45's all round and the issue was solved, permanently.

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Re:Ask HN: Founders, what is the worst experience you had wi... by azhenley on Saturday October 20, 2018 @04:37PM (#18265310)

For non-UK readers: according to Wikipedia, P45 is slang for firing an employee.

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Re:Ask HN: Founders, what is the worst experience you had wi... by edwinbalani on Saturday October 20, 2018 @04:45PM (#18265360)

Yep - in reality it's the number/code of the HMRC (tax authority) form you get when you leave a job.

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Re:Ask HN: Founders, what is the worst experience you had wi... by rdiddly on Saturday October 20, 2018 @04:45PM (#18265359)

Thanks... so kind of like how we would say 'pink slip' in the US.

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Re:Ask HN: Founders, what is the worst experience you had wi... by alexbilbie on Saturday October 20, 2018 @04:46PM (#18265370)

A P45 is the official document you receive when you leave employment (fired or not), it isn’t slang for anything though you may be threatened with a P45

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Re:Ask HN: Founders, what is the worst experience you had wi... by azhenley on Saturday October 20, 2018 @04:50PM (#18265397)

"The term is used in British slang as a metonym for termination of employment." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P45_(tax)

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Re:Ask HN: Founders, what is the worst experience you had wi... by kurtisc on Saturday October 20, 2018 @08:06PM (#18266142)

You seem to be telling someone who lives in London how British slang is used because you read about it a few minutes before on Wikipedia.

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Re:Ask HN: Founders, what is the worst experience you had wi... by quickthrower2 on Saturday October 20, 2018 @09:39PM (#18266366)

Fellow Brit here. Born, bred and then f'd off elsewhere. I'd argue P45 is slang for being fired.

Its slang because P45 has nothing directly to do with being fired. It is a tax document related to changing employment.

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Re:Ask HN: Founders, what is the worst experience you had wi... by lewisflude on Monday October 22, 2018 @09:51AM (#18274613)

I agree (born and live in London). I've never heard P45 used as slang, maybe you could use "given a P45" to suggest someone was fired though.

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Re:Ask HN: Founders, what is the worst experience you had wi... by kurtisc on Sunday October 21, 2018 @05:41AM (#18267314)

Something to do with acquiring a P45 as a noun, yes. P45 isn't itself a verb that means firing as I infer the OP to be saying.

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Re:Ask HN: Founders, what is the worst experience you had wi... by collyw on Saturday October 20, 2018 @05:21PM (#18265553)

So you didn't pay them?

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Re:Ask HN: Founders, what is the worst experience you had wi... by noobermin on Saturday October 20, 2018 @06:44PM (#18265888)

I'm pretty sure this post is sarcastic.

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Re:Ask HN: Founders, what is the worst experience you had wi... by collyw on Monday October 22, 2018 @06:20AM (#18273455)

Ahh I see now. Sarcasm isn't always obvious in text form.

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