sabbatical
My preference would be
for you to stay at GitHub
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sabbatical
When you came back
would be totally up to you
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DEC 2014
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sabbatical
Before agreeing to your
return […] we need to chat
through some things
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FEB 2015
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Y O U
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Y O U
read the clues
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Y O U
ha, yeah that’s
when they started
to fire you
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conversation
with my manager
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conversation
with my manager
uh, plus someone in hr
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conversation
immediately became confrontational
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hr complaint
filed formal
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Y O U
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Y O U
avoid hr
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Y O U
hr exists to protect
the company, not you
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E M P L O Y E R
avoid surprises
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E M P L O Y E R
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E M P L O Y E R
pip
performance improvement plan
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flew to sf
to meet that friday
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FIRED
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you’re not going
to be happy here
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Y O U
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Y O U
chill.
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tall poppy
syndrome
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E M P L O Y E R
lockdown
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E M P L O Y E R
roll creds
and automate it
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understand
implications
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E M P L O Y E R
understand
implications
(real-world)
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E M P L O Y E R
refine
workflow
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determine
the rationale
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gossip
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truthful
be
internally
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mutually agreed
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lying
poisons
the well
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group firing
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The weird part is how much this is about
me. This is happening to me right now. I
didn't really expect it to feel so intimate,
a kind of whoa, this is my experience
right now and nobody else's.
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LOOSE ENDS
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it takes an
awful amount
of work
to stop work
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immediate
logistics
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healthcare
(for loser americans)
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severance
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90 day window
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28 hours
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Y O U
writing
get things in
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Y O U
stay on-the-record
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Y O U
know a good:
lawyer · accountant · financial advisor
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friends
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friends
don’t last
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C O W O R K E R
stay in touch
it’s cool to
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on you
it’s also kinda
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gossipis tedious
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alumni
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alumni
continue the culture
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alumni
continue the culture
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alumni
continue the culture
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alumni
continue the culture
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alumni
cultivate your
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communication
have a direct point of