Ask HN: I was hired and unhired in 2 weeks, for no reason

Re:Ask HN: I was hired and unhired in 2 weeks, for no reason by vuldin on Friday August 08, 2014 @10:58AM (#8153064)

While everyone understands there is an added level of uncertainty when taking a start up position, your situation sounds more unusual than most considering that it does little more than screws up your career and short term family plans. You can't really say you worked at this company, you've already gone through what sounds like a lengthy job search and turned down all positions that came up besides this one, made plans with your family to move to the States, and then a week after getting 'hired' you had to make other plans.

I'm not sure why you say you like the founders when they treat people like this. This is a serious blow to your life that they are responsible for.

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Re:Ask HN: I was hired and unhired in 2 weeks, for no reason by marauf on Friday August 08, 2014 @11:14AM (#8153176)

hmm .. I don't know. I feel differently. They may be nice people. But hiring and firing is a purely business decision. It might be that they needed a different skill set. Or had another candidate who was a lot cheaper. Investor money drying up, lots of things. Its a job at the end of the day and he was let go.

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Re:Ask HN: I was hired and unhired in 2 weeks, for no reason by eropple on Friday August 08, 2014 @12:16PM (#8153546)

> But hiring and firing is a purely business decision. ... Its a job at the end of the day and he was let go.

I have a serious beef with this mode of thinking. Nothing that you do to another human being is a "purely business decision." And from a practical perspective it's better, in the long run, for you too to be remembered as having owned your mistakes and done right by the people you wronged.

Of course, there is the line of thinking that, hey, this guy won't ever help me later, so I can screw him and skate. And that is entirely too common in startupland. But that speaks to the poor humanity of its thinker more than anything else.

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Re:Ask HN: I was hired and unhired in 2 weeks, for no reason by zem on Friday August 08, 2014 @02:05PM (#8154210)

agreed, "just business" is a horrible cop out, and it's sad that so many people buy into it even when they are on the getting screwed end of the equation.

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