I'm a former Miso engineer and the founders screwed me out of 10k

Re:I'm a former Miso engineer and the founders screwed me ou... by DanBlake on Thursday May 10, 2012 @03:45PM (#3955571)

I dont agree. 99% of this time this type of stuff stays private because the employee is fearful of repercussions and as a result, new employees never get warned about the mess they are walking into. Thats why I upvoted this- It takes balls to air this publicly and thats the only thing you can do to stop shit behavior like this from happening and scare other companys into treating people right.

So long as companys think they can get away with treating you like shit, most of them will. Stuff like this stops that.

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Re:I'm a former Miso engineer and the founders screwed me ou... by justjimmy on Thursday May 10, 2012 @03:53PM (#3955620)

Employees are scared to burn bridges or take it public, because it will affect them when it comes to future job prospects. Unless your new potential employers really know your rep, HR will stay far away from you.

It's also up to the new employees to stay vigilant and find out as much as they can on their new employers – LinkedIn makes it so easy to track down ex employees of companies, just shoot them an email, introduce yourself (even easier with connections) and hopefully they can give on some valuable feedback (and hopefully they're honest!)

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Re:I'm a former Miso engineer and the founders screwed me ou... by rgrieselhuber on Thursday May 10, 2012 @03:47PM (#3955583)

I think it's worthwhile taking stuff like this public but threatening beforehand is a big no-no.

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Re:I'm a former Miso engineer and the founders screwed me ou... by inuhj on Thursday May 10, 2012 @04:07PM (#3955717)

I've had customers "threaten" me with the same. Some people get really unlucky(had a customer receive two defective products in a row and the third time we were OOS). I've never begrudged a customer for sharing their experience with others as long as its a factual account. In fact with that customer I confirmed his account of events and apologized publicly.

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Re:I'm a former Miso engineer and the founders screwed me ou... by inuhj on Thursday May 10, 2012 @03:57PM (#3955649)

If your threat is to tell your side of the story I don't see a problem with it. Ivehad customers do that with me and it's usually because their experience with my company sucked.

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Re:I'm a former Miso engineer and the founders screwed me ou... by rremoncake on Thursday May 10, 2012 @03:51PM (#3955608)

You're right. I'm definitely not proud of that.

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