Re:A conflict with a manager ended with me being disallowed ...
by moritonal on Monday June 20, 2022 @11:37AM
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It used to be very easy to link my profile to my LinkedIn but it does seem that links broken, but yes, I am a quite senior dev having worked in both startup & corporate as an employee & as a contractor.
Maybe I should have beeen more obvious, but the way I phrased OP's actions was to show how the Manager saw it, and sold it to HR. The crux of this is that the dev was enjoying the benefits of being a contractor but wanted the perks of being an employee. A contractor is meant to be a simple resource for a company (although it's is absolutely Spotify's fault for abusing the contractor position with things like teaching Interns as a contractor (which I think is illegal in some countries?)).
To be more clear, my stance is that the employee would make a great employee, but is a bad contractor which is why Spotify blacklisted them (although it'd be interesting to know if they could apply as an employee now).
Though I agree that there could've been a better way to handle it (OP states it), your tone sounds almost like you’re that bad manager. As a manager you’re as much a cog as anyone else, and you need to be accountable downwards and upwards. A good company understands that.
Ideally it should’ve been that OP just quietly switched teams or found another job.
But I’m glad that this got posted. I don’t want to work at a company that I don’t have an opportunity to criticize their internal structures with valid rational reasoning. Being fired is ok, but being marked as bad cultural fit is clearly a retaliatory move, which is not just bitter from the company but also from the HR department at Spotify, especially that no one asked OP’s colleagues.
This seems like a thing in Swedish medium/big tech companies, at least from what we read about Klarna last month.