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Re:I Got Fired from Amazon as a Software Development Engineer by jleyank on Friday November 12, 2021 @12:36PM (#29202128)
“Being an engineer who wasn’t happy with a situation like this, I gave my manager a piece of my mind. She brought gender into the equation and said that I couldn’t speak to a girl like that, so I decided to hang up the phone.”

If this is an accurate description of what went down, including verb tenses, it’s bad for multiple reasons: leave gender out, don’t refer to oneself in the 3rd person and watch what you say as nobody should willingly be an asshole.

Perhaps the lesson is also that we have to aggressively cya. With records of the no answers and the like, it reduces the who said what bs. And maybe, we have to train people to act professionally vs. putting up with bs.

Re:I Got Fired from Amazon as a Software Development Engineer by hirundo on Friday November 12, 2021 @02:47PM (#29203741)
Giving someone a piece of your mind or hanging up on them, regardless of the provocation, is a risky move in any job. It's an essential job skill to be able to phrase and rephrase issues with sufficient neutrality, and to practice that religiously. Being calm and responsive -- the opposite of hanging up -- is difficult when you feel you are being insulted. But it's the correct strategic move, even if you're updating your resume at the same time.
Re:I Got Fired from Amazon as a Software Development Engineer by cmiles74 on Friday November 12, 2021 @02:50PM (#29203772)
In my opinion, these two quoted sentences are doing pretty much all the work in this article. I'm kind of surprised this article is on the front page, given the lack of detail.