this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2025
49 points (100.0% liked)
chat
8348 readers
85 users here now
Chat is a text only community for casual conversation, please keep shitposting to the absolute minimum. This is intended to be a separate space from c/chapotraphouse or the daily megathread. Chat does this by being a long-form community where topics will remain from day to day unlike the megathread, and it is distinct from c/chapotraphouse in that we ask you to engage in this community in a genuine way. Please keep shitposting, bits, and irony to a minimum.
As with all communities posts need to abide by the code of conduct, additionally moderators will remove any posts or comments deemed to be inappropriate.
Thank you and happy chatting!
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
i have seen this happen so many times -- it hasn't happened to me because i've never worked at such a small startup before, but i knew a guy who was at a startup when it was just 20 people and he was still there when they made it to 1800 people, and then one day they just fired him with no notice saying he just wasn't good at his job
I'm in a weird position in that literally everything we use from project management to design process to in house software was entirely designed by me and is maintained by me.
The owners of the company are almost 70 and have never run a company, so I had to step up and make things work because they wouldn't.
Ofc I did all that on my own because they couldn't follow or understand any of the requirements of the job. Now that is been running smoothly thanks to me for years they think that it just works because they had done meetings and paid an IT firm to install viruses on our computers that I had to fix.
Luckily the staff will knows what I've done, and agree that I should just let it crash and have them hire me on as an outside consultant lmao