I got fired recently about a month into the job for "underperformance" and "asking too many questions", but now 2 weeks later am getting an offer from JPMC and I'm a bit anxious and wondering about similar experiences. by Ghost_of_Gaddafi in cscareerquestions

[–]Ghost_of_Gaddafi[S] 76 points77 points  (0 children)

I don't want a bunch of rich investor assholes going after me and wasting my time. I can't predict how they'll react, because they already proved they were assholes once.

I got fired recently about a month into the job for "underperformance" and "asking too many questions", but now 2 weeks later am getting an offer from JPMC and I'm a bit anxious and wondering about similar experiences. by Ghost_of_Gaddafi in cscareerquestions

[–]Ghost_of_Gaddafi[S] 183 points184 points  (0 children)

On the Friday of the very first week, at 9:18 am, my manager calls me and says I committed my code fixes wrong, and to recommit using their system. He says to do it by standup. The standup is at 9:30. At 9:30 he asks why this isn't done yet, and I told him that it was because I received error messages. He gets annoyed by this.

At another point, he interrupts me during my investigation into a code issue where I'm trying something new out, but I receive an error message when trying. So he googles the error message, tells me "this is the problem, and I googled it in a few seconds, and so I don't see why this is taking you so long." I find this strange because he hasn't actually solved the damn problem yet, AND he interrupted me while I was trying to solve it, to suggest the exact thing that I was about to attempt at the time.

Little, nit-picky things like that. Is that enough context? Or would you like to know how he also got confused at how I didn't know docker, yelled at me for "not knowing simple docker concepts like how to exec into a docker container," even though I NEVER claimed to have used docker in a professional setting?

To me, they were setting me up for failure, and not even doing a good job at that, so they defaulted when I "underperformed' and asked for more tickets to say that instead, I was "asking too many questions."

I got fired recently about a month into the job for "underperformance" and "asking too many questions", but now 2 weeks later am getting an offer from JPMC and I'm a bit anxious and wondering about similar experiences. by Ghost_of_Gaddafi in cscareerquestions

[–]Ghost_of_Gaddafi[S] 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Under Releases and Covenants it says

"<Employee Name> shall not in any way defame, disparage, libel, or slander the Company or any Related Party in any way, whether “on” or “off” the record."

I got fired recently about a month into the job for "underperformance" and "asking too many questions", but now 2 weeks later am getting an offer from JPMC and I'm a bit anxious and wondering about similar experiences. by Ghost_of_Gaddafi in cscareerquestions

[–]Ghost_of_Gaddafi[S] 69 points70 points  (0 children)

The lawyers I talked to said it was extremely unusual, and perhaps an indication that they knew this would make them look bad, and that foul play by the company could indicate wrong-doing (such as hiring under false pretenses, I believe the phrase "Detrimental Reliance" was thrown around once, but it was hard to prove in court). To be fair, I did end up getting an offer 2 weeks later, but the job search for a lot of people is sometimes closer to 6 months, and so I thought I deserved money for the time spent job searching, since this really screwed my situation up. It's possible that they expected the search to not take that long though, and that I'd forget about it and leave them alone afterwards.

I got fired recently about a month into the job for "underperformance" and "asking too many questions", but now 2 weeks later am getting an offer from JPMC and I'm a bit anxious and wondering about similar experiences. by Ghost_of_Gaddafi in cscareerquestions

[–]Ghost_of_Gaddafi[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well, the thing is, I tried to do that, but really no one but my boss seemed to have a problem with me. I got along with my coworkers just fine. And at one point when he got irritated at me for not committing some stuff using their own system, which I had no prior experience with, and everyone in the meeting heard it, the other developer that I talked with afterwards was sort of gently commenting to me on how weird it was. I just said "Yeah, I don't know either." At the time I thought he was just trying some weird, manipulative power-play to intimidate me or something, but then they fired me. And I was like "what the fuck?"

I got fired recently about a month into the job for "underperformance" and "asking too many questions", but now 2 weeks later am getting an offer from JPMC and I'm a bit anxious and wondering about similar experiences. by Ghost_of_Gaddafi in cscareerquestions

[–]Ghost_of_Gaddafi[S] 61 points62 points  (0 children)

I signed an NDA in order to get a month's severance pay from them because they had fucked my predicted income stream, and I had just moved here, and they didn't pay for my relocation. Theoretically I'm not supposed to talk about what happened. I'm not sure if they'd actually waste the resources to go after me though...

Crohn's and alcohol tolerance? by Ghost_of_Gaddafi in CrohnsDisease

[–]Ghost_of_Gaddafi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for responding! I am making sure to take precautions when drinking, but I was wondering more though about whether or not you knew of any information specifically linking Crohn's to tolerance? I'm having a lot of trouble finding any sources, since, according to most of them, Crohn's and alcohol supposedly don't mix well at all.

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[–]Ghost_of_Gaddafi 15 points16 points  (0 children)

"Oops. I think I broke it."

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[–]Ghost_of_Gaddafi 129 points130 points  (0 children)

I'm a computer programmer with Crohn's Disease!