Ask HN: Who Are You Firing? We see the monthly who’s hiring thread, but who are you about to fire? And if not you directly who do you think is about to be fired? Let’s keep names out of this but I’d love to hear all of your rants. |
Ask HN: Who Are You Firing? We see the monthly who’s hiring thread, but who are you about to fire? And if not you directly who do you think is about to be fired? Let’s keep names out of this but I’d love to hear all of your rants. |
While it does suck to work with someone who needs to be fired, losing a job can be financially and emotionally devastating. It can tear families apart and lead to suicide.
Why dance on the grave, even if it's anonymous?
> Let’s keep names out of this but I’d love to hear all of your rants.
My distaste is that the responses would just be punching down.
I've never seen (and struggle to imagine) the value in hearing stories about incompetence. Most people have little trouble recognizing it
in others. Many people, at least in my experience, myself included, have great difficulties seeing it in themselves. Reading about why you'd fire somebody (that I can identify with because of a few lines of context) can lead to questioning my behavior and/or attitude.
I don't think incompetence is rant-worthy, really. "This programmer I hired can't program, so I fired him", that's not news. "This programmer I hired can program but he doesn't share his knowledge, so he's becoming a bottleneck and single point of failure, and I cannot afford to have that, so I'm going to fire him if he doesn't change" is something else.