Re:What's It Like To Be Fired?
by notJim on Friday July 15, 2011 @10:50PM
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A lot of this really doesn't add up to me:
> "My boss the previous week had told me what a great coder I was"
> "You cannot use the employer who fired you as a reference."
Why couldn't he use his boss as a reference?
> "if you get fired, you become a persona non grata."
I find this hard to believe. How would people even find out about it? And is there no one in "the tech community?" (as if there's only one) who knows that people are human and make mistakes? Surely he would have friends in the community who would see the whole picture.
> "I know there’s no techie blacklist but the only 2 jobs I could find were as a spam engineer or in a totally different industry."
Again, I find this difficult to believe. If he was really a great coder, and came clean with his mistakes, possibly presenting a plan for why he wouldn't make them again, I don't see any reason an employer wouldn't take a risk on him, provided he's got chops.
It seems like most of what this article says would only be true if you were fired very prominently from a high-profile role, or if you had an egregious lapse in judgment that lead to serious problems at your company.
> "My boss the previous week had told me what a great coder I was" > "You cannot use the employer who fired you as a reference."
Why couldn't he use his boss as a reference?
> "if you get fired, you become a persona non grata."
I find this hard to believe. How would people even find out about it? And is there no one in "the tech community?" (as if there's only one) who knows that people are human and make mistakes? Surely he would have friends in the community who would see the whole picture.
> "I know there’s no techie blacklist but the only 2 jobs I could find were as a spam engineer or in a totally different industry."
Again, I find this difficult to believe. If he was really a great coder, and came clean with his mistakes, possibly presenting a plan for why he wouldn't make them again, I don't see any reason an employer wouldn't take a risk on him, provided he's got chops.
It seems like most of what this article says would only be true if you were fired very prominently from a high-profile role, or if you had an egregious lapse in judgment that lead to serious problems at your company.