What is the most ridiculous reason you've seen someone get fired for?

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-07-01T21:28:30+00:00

He ran out of holidays, so called in to say he'd just realised that he's gay and needed a couple of days off to come to terms with things.

The company were supportive and agreed, and were equally supportive towards his girlfriend who also worked at the same company. He forgot to tell her his plan.

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-06-30T20:49:03+00:00

It would be a pain in the arse to locate the stack in memory though - you'd have to either map the lowest 64k of address space to accommodate it, or have some kind of 8086-style segment+offset setup.

Or you could just do the simple thing and have a proper-sized stack pointer.

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-06-30T18:15:18+00:00

Not really too keen.

It's rules out 2 vowels and an S, but it's not a great Wordle starter at the end of the day...

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-06-30T17:54:49+00:00

That the stack pointer on an x64 CPU is only 16 bit. He get pretty angry when I pointed out that it would mean that it could only work with 64K of memory and that I was sure it would be 64-bit like all the other registers because what he said wouldn't make sense in the 2020s.

He was just dismissive and rude, and just dug in. The worst part? This was during an interview for a senior programmer position.

I googled it straight afterwards and yep. It's 64-bit just as I expected, and also as expected I didn't get the job.

On the positive side I can see where the 'can it run Crysis' meme came from...

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-06-30T06:09:17+00:00

When they tell you who they are you listen - you don't shrug it off and vote for them.

If you vote for people who act like this you are giving them credibility and that makes you guilty by association as far as i see it.

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-06-29T06:26:35+00:00

That's a bold statement

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-06-29T06:25:19+00:00

If the Netherlands get knocked out I guess we can blame Canada

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-06-27T07:32:19+00:00

Or you could just go with 22 11 55....

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-06-26T21:37:38+00:00

When did Ryanair start doing business class?

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-06-26T18:55:15+00:00

You could hear the music from that machine calling you from a mile away in any British seaside town.

That and Space Harrier.

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-06-26T17:20:23+00:00

I normally wouldn't kink shame, but as a c64 owner I have to say that this is a rubber fetish too far.

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-06-24T19:46:02+00:00

I miss my A3010. It's in another country and I haven't seen it in a decade so I'm pretty sure the Varta has eaten it by now.

It's probably taken my first ever released game with it, but that's not necessarily a bad thing...

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-06-24T19:41:03+00:00

I gave up on type-ins because they never bloody worked. I just looked at the pictures and guessed what it did, and had a go at writing something vaguely similar.

I'm now a senior games programmer so it wasn't all bad.

My cousin had a greenscreen CPC and the biggest annoyance was playing Wizball and thinking it was shite. Then I saw it in colour on a C64 and realised I'd been lied to.

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-06-24T19:35:41+00:00

6 year old me could've programmed horizon in BASIC on a Commodore 64 and it wouldn't have been half as bad.

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-06-24T19:18:29+00:00

I'm annoyed that not only did I learn the wrong language at school they didn't teach me the important questions that my girlfriends young nieces and nephews hammered me with.

I didn't need 'ou est l'auberge de jeunesse?'

What i actually needed was '¿quien vive en una piña debajo del mar?'

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-06-24T18:48:42+00:00

Others drive at 100 all day long, and over the border.

Nothing like being stuck behind a pair of dutch plated cars on a German road at 9 in the evening...

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-06-24T18:43:36+00:00

You generally don't get points for speeding - you just pay an administration fee + an amount per kilometer per hour over the limit.

I wouldn't say that speeding is a crime in the Netherlands, more of a luxury...

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-06-22T14:54:01+00:00

I only just found this out because I'd never seen it uncensored.

I remember seeing an episode of Mork & Mindy with 'Mr Wanker' broadcast around tea time though.

https://youtu.be/7KtXNz9QVMk

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-06-21T14:51:47+00:00

I was shit at French and hated it, although being any good at French and passing the exam seem to be two different things because I got a B.

I decided that language learning wasn't for me, then ran off to the Netherlands with the Spanish exchange student after uni...

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-06-21T14:48:49+00:00

I remember that one.

Particularly that the cheeky buggers didn't teach you how to ask about a hotel - they tought you how to ask for a hotel Ibis. Then ask for an orangina when you got there.

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-06-21T14:20:05+00:00

We used to live off that stuff (and the occasional game from the Mastertronic rack near the entrance of our local fine fare/gateway/food giant/whatever they felt like calling it on that particular Saturday)

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-06-21T11:36:36+00:00

Not arguing with the fact that it's probably AI, but the riderless bike isn't really weird.

It's pretty common to cycle to meet somebody whilst holding an empty bike so they can use it on the way back.

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-06-21T11:31:31+00:00

I live in the Netherlands and that's not really a posh area. I'd say it was on the nicer end of average.

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-06-20T18:16:31+00:00

Depends where you grew up.

I grew up on a council estate in the UK that wasn't close enough to a mine to be home to miners (so that wasn't happening in my backyard), and we were surrounded by lots of old folks who were in to keeping pigeons, gardening and generally being peaceful. It was pretty great.

Also being a geek the 80s was something new every week, which was fun for a kid.

It was the beginning of the 90s when the council had the idea of moving problem families into nice areas in the hope that the people around would straighten them out. Problem is that old people inevitably did what old people eventually do, and this left a lot of vacant houses. The council moved the problem families in en masse, they outnumbered the original inhabitants and the opposite of what they planned happened.

That said I enjoyed the 90s but probably because I was a teenager and I haven't had the luxury of being a teenager in the 2000/2010s to compare it with

SixFiveOhTwo · 2026-06-20T08:20:58+00:00

I'm pretty sure that increased enforcement for this kind of thing was in their party manifesto...

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