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Government sanctioned harassment of software engineers

1 points by holidayacct ↗ HN
The American government has a program for targeted harassment of software engineers who they believe are yelling in frustration. I'm not talking about yelling at work (it's well within reason to fire someone for yelling at work). If enough people say you've been yelling at work or yelling in your own home they will work managerial networks and have you fired from your job. They then participate in rumor campaigns and abuse networks further to keep the person unemployed until they believe they are unemployable.

The entire purpose is to trigger PTSD in a way that prevents them from being able to think straight or causes paranoid schizophrenia. I'm not asking you to believe a single thing I'm saying, look at anyone who has worked in software engineering in the past twenty years and track down where they are now. You're going to find thousands of people who are dragged along on job searches when there were plenty of available jobs just so they could be forced out of the job market.

Once again, this is implicitly government sanctioned at every single level of the government, they all know it is happening and they actively encourage this kind of behavior.

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smt88
I think that you should discuss this with a loved one.
PaulHoule
Are you experiencing paranoid schizophrenia?
LinuxBender
In my opinion, this should be formatted as a question and the title should start with "Ask HN: ". It might help if you provide anecdotal examples and observations that brought you to this conclusion. Provide one or more hypothesis on what a government would stand to gain from this. It may help you think through the problem and form a better foundation for discussion. i.e. give people more details to go on.
pphysch
Do you have any evidence of this being a widespread phenomena?

As it stands this sounds like what someone would say who is unwilling to put in the effort to be employable in their desired field and instead wastes effort reinforcing excuses to the contrary. I've certainly heard it plenty. And this is coming from a pro-worker person.

AnimalMuppet
Well, for what it's worth, I've worked in software engineering for 30 years. I'm still in software engineering. I've never seen or heard anything like what you're talking about.

(I offer my experience, anecdote though it is, because you seem to be saying this is widespread, maybe even universal. It could be that I am misreading you.)

[dead] apolymath
I've witnessed managers yelling, but no developers in my 20+ years as a software engineer. We are naturally chill individuals, or else we'd be yelling at our computers all day every day because writing code can be extremely difficult & frustrating.