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Re:Ask HN: Are you ok? on Thursday September 12, 2019 @12:11PM (#20953163)
Nope. I was fired 9 months ago for insisting that leadership disclose a credential leak to affected customers. The company is one that publicly touts itself as being an ethical, progressive, transparent organization. Turns out if a disclosure doesn't improve the image they're attempting to market, those values go right out the window.

The whole experience has left me jaded on working with for-profit tech companies, and put me in a pretty rough mental state all around. I feel disgusted with myself when I consider working for another vc backed org, so now instead of making a healthy west coast engineer salary, I make minimum wage in a bar, and am teetering on the edge of homelessness.