Comments | aisa0: we've fired a partner in crime

aisa0

we've fired a partner in crime

Jul 25, 2006 12:04

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aisa0 July 25 2006, 20:34:01 UTC

he won't be directly replaced, but regardless right now we need customer facing it/systems admin folks. windows people mostly.

iirc, you're more database-type stuff? i don't exactly recall, though i suppose i could get off my tuff and read the cover letter i promised i would. ;)

cryptosporidosi July 25 2006, 21:35:05 UTC

I do/have done windows support and I'll be looking something when my lab time ends. I'm going to have some time before I can find exactly the right place for more grad school.

aisa0 July 25 2006, 22:40:00 UTC

when does lab time end? i'd like to talk to you more, maybe get a resume, see if there is any interest.

you living in abq now or in los alamos?

houdini_cs July 26 2006, 01:01:57 UTC

Is this the one that came in just a bit ago, or one of the other two?

aisa0 July 26 2006, 15:17:16 UTC

no, the two stories aren't the same people. this one had been here since late last year. the guy we recently hired is still around.

craigpost July 26 2006, 15:24:14 UTC

Well it always sucks when people get fired, but not as bad as when they DON'T get fired. Be glad to work for a company that can let people go without reams of paperwork. We aren't terrible here, but we certainly have to start "building a case" a couple months in advance.

aisa0 July 26 2006, 15:29:13 UTC

agreed. working in an environment where letting people go is relatively easy is fairly important to me.

we did all right at prediction company. the only thing we really failed at was operating at scale--over time hiring more people brought the average skill level down. we should have let go of more people than we did, except that would have made us smaller than we needed to be at that point. so seh.

but "building a case" sounds kind of funny to me, because i'm not used to seeing secrets be terribly well kept. how would you like to know you were going to be axed in two months? it would change my attitude, but i wouldn't leave until they did it for me. ;)

cybercerberus July 31 2006, 06:10:50 UTC

I actually think being able to fire people without proof of why you're doing it should be utterly illegal. All it does is allow corporate greed to take precedence over human interest, and create abusive situations like the one that happened to my Dad, who after 30 years at what is now Sprint, was let go for no real reason a few years before his retirement so they could bring in some "new blood".

A leftist like yourself should know better.