Just some red flags. No big deal. Just ignore them

Re:Just some red flags. No big deal. Just ignore them by qeternity on Saturday May 23, 2020 @05:00AM (#23281326)

What? How are those two remotely collectively exhaustive? Let's give her the benefit of the doubt and presume this company really has some issues. Another approach would be to accept that companies can't cater generic HR processes to every single employee, complete the "bullshit" tasks as best she can (as she will likely be required to many times again throughout her life) and then raise the issue with the appropriate team at a later date. People encounter these things with comical frequency when starting a new job that it's basically a meme...however most people manage to get things sorted out.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Just some red flags. No big deal. Just ignore them by isoskeles on Saturday May 23, 2020 @05:40AM (#23281556)

Collectively exhaustive? I'm just summarizing the two direct replies I've gotten, both of which are making assumptions about what her behaviors must have been on her first day. They're diametric opposites, silently sulking or loudly whining.

I think the OP can be criticized at a basic level of being overly negative as well as being a personal rant rather than anything particularly insightful for HN. Rachelbythebay had a bad experience at some job and feels like the onboarding experience was a big red flag--that doesn't offer us much to learn. And that's fine, I can see a criticism of the post like that and half-agree. Maybe it's not for HN, and that is her own personal blog, so it fits that she might write posts on her blog that can miss the mark here.

Making assumptions about her exact behaviors beyond what was written in the article, that's just weird to me. It's an odd defensive position you're taking in which you don't like the post so you have to defend the company by making shit up.

"She must have been sulking silently!" Interesting, tell me more about this moody, sulking woman. What else did she do wrong?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Just some red flags. No big deal. Just ignore them by qeternity on Saturday May 23, 2020 @05:48AM (#23281599)

> GROAN.

> After another hour of this, I had enough.

> I wound up camped like a refugee

I'm not assuming anything. She spells it out right there in TFA. This is the definition of sulking.

> Interesting, tell me more about this moody, sulking woman.

Not sure why you're so intent on this gender strawman. Just because she's a woman does not absolve her of bad behavior. I never said she was moody. I don't know her in the least bit. What I do know is that she handled this situation poorly, but is undoubtedly emboldened by people like you who will trip over yourself to play the gender card.

[ Parent | on HN ]