Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (April 2016)
Share your information if you hate your job. Please use this format:
How much of a jerk is your boss? (0-10)
How chaotic is your environment? (0-10)
What have you done that is illegal or unethical that can be used as grounds for firing you?
What are you currently doing?
What would you like to do instead?
Readers: Please only fire people that are direct reports of yours.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 19.7 ms ] threadHow chaotic is your environment? 9 - not quite total anarchy, we have release processes after all!
What have you done that is illegal or unethical that can be used as grounds for firing you? Using the internet for non-work purposes. All of those potentially useful bytes wasted.
What are you currently doing? Responding to a HN thread.
What would you like to do instead? Respond to an HN thread from a comfy chair.
01 - we're pretty good friends.
> How chaotic is your environment? (0-10)
10 - This isn't anything that the CEO wouldn't say himself
> What have you done that is illegal or unethical that can be used as grounds for firing you?
Imposing double standards - defining strict rules about internet usage while still using the company's bandwidth for my own nefarious purposes.
> What are you currently doing?
Leaving nefarious remarks on HN
> What would you like to do instead?
Being home getting nefarious with my wife ;)
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>How chaotic is your environment? (0-10)
10+i10
>What have you done that is illegal or unethical that can be used as grounds for firing you?
I used an iPhone once, apparently that's grounds for FBI investigation
>What are you currently doing?
Typing this sentence.
>What would you like to do instead?
Eating the Indian food on my desk.
>How much of a jerk is your boss? (0-10) 10 - I'm the boss
How chaotic is your environment? 10 - Agile doesn't mean 6 week waterfall sprints. Unit tests aren't something you do manually and infrequently.
What have you done that is illegal or unethical that can be used as grounds for firing you? Everyday I stay past 6:00pm but I'm only allowed to be on the property till 6:00pm.
What are you currently doing? Waiting for an IBM source control tool to finish doing something.
What would you like to do instead? Learning Erlang & Elixir
How chaotic is your environment? (0-10) 10 No one knows whats going on or if they do it is different for each person.
What have you done that is illegal or unethical that can be used as grounds for firing you? I took home a notebook
What are you currently doing? Reading random articles on the internet since I haven't had work to do for the pass 2 months.
What would you like to do instead? Coding up a video game in C++