@Nanos We managed to get him to agree to a meeting the same day and we did a demo of our feature... The demo was very buggy and he made the call himself to cancel the deployment.

Thanks for the advice. He ended up listening and the deployment has been cancelled :)

Same thing here

@localpost That's why I ask. I don't know how active the moderators/admins are.

@mansur85 Belgium

Well, this rant has aged poorly... 2 other people are also fired and a third one will be fired when they legally can fire him (sick leave)

@mansur85 An other colleague informed her 30 minutes later and she was fired an other 1h30 after that.

Her job is related to how much sales is happening and they fired a few sales people (or they left) and the backlog has also disappeared so she was no longer needed. The backlog was done partly by a jobstudent that they asked to fire himself (he didn't). See previous rant for more info.

She was no longer needed :(

@Oktokolo We had a suspicion that this would happen so nearly every dev has taken a local dump of the lastpass.

But sadly, we don't have access to all folders. The person that should have access is on holiday and the other one didn't take one and lost it.

I contacted support and they have just reset the password and forwarded it me. We don't have any idea for what else that account is used for.

@Oktokolo It's been a month already ^_^

Awaiting patiently...

@localpost of course not

@Demolishun Let's just that the Karen was well fed :)

@nururururu No idea. The hotel costs would be paid by the company.

The mobile home is his own private property and I guess he wanted a reason to use it :)

What book is that

Status update....

He had a talk with the HR again and they looked at what is legal possible again and they compromised and his last day is 1 week later instead of 2.

So that is now his 5th change when his last day is :')

@We3D I probably also do a very bad job explaining it :)

The goal that the law wants to accomplish is that you don't fall without an income after you got fired.

People found a way to exploit it and we ended up with a very botched system :D

@CoreFusionX The reason is so that you don't fall without an income. You get legally 1 day off per week to interview.

But going on sick leave & holiday doesn't count towards that period. You'll still have to work 6 weeks actively. No matter if you take 0, 1 or 2 weeks of sick leave/holiday. You'll have to work 6 weeks.

The company can decide to pay you for 6 weeks but not have you come in and not do any work. They'll have to pay for that period. The employee & company can also decide on 3 weeks (let's say, you have a different job already lined up).

The period of 6 weeks also scales up with how long you work for that company.

If you decide to leave yourself, different laws apply.

@We3D Sorry to hear that from you...

@wojtek322

Since he had already (in January) planned holidays for June. That now felt in his "notice period" so the law says he has to work for 6 weeks. But he confirmed with HR & the C-level (that fired him). They also confirmed it was 6 weeks from him receiving the letter. Which is for him different with his holiday. So now he has to work 2 weeks more.

The HR person said if he leaves early on his previously last day, he would not be able to get his unemployment benefits. He has no new job aligned.

He got fired for financial reasons and there is not enough work for his seniority (junior). He has 1 year work experience so good luck finding a new job quickly... And he got fired when everyone from college / uni will be graduated.... So it will be very hard for him to land a new job.

Would you rather hire a fresh junior or someone that got fired after 1 year...

At this point, just pay him out for the last 2 weeks... They already caused enough stress on him.

@We3D He got fired in person and the next day, he got the letter with a specific date (6 weeks later). This letter was not valid for legal reasons so they corrected it and he got a new letter the new week. They also removed the date and said 6 weeks from now.

For some reason, this letter was also not legally valid so he got an other one a week later. Since his previous letters were not valid, his "notice" period (or whatever the correct term is) didn't start. It only started from his third letter which was now legally binding....

A coworker got fired for "not fitting anymore in the company DNA". He still did great work. His replacement does a less good job but "fits" in the company culture. The boss is happy with his decision :o

Oh, I forgot the best part.

We had a company-wide meeting where the managers said that we need to have more efficient email communication. 10 min after the meeting, we got an email about what has been said in the meeting with the extra point regarding the "food ordering" channel.

Oh, the irony.

The meeting lasted for 30 min, 28 minutes was about more efficient email communication. 1 min about the CTO resigning and 1 minute of greetings & people leaving.

@benj Ye, back in college I had to make a few but haven't done back-end coding since i graduated.

But I should be fine I think. It's just scary to apply for back-end jobs :D

@We3D It's hard to learn said stuff if there is no one anymore to discuss potential problems with.

@We3D Sadly not. I got a minor pay rise back in January (after my salary has been adjusted for inflation).

I'm technically still a Junior (working here for 2 years if you include my unpaid internship (which is the norm here)). But my tasks are senior level since well... I'm the full front-end team now. The last colleague in the front-end team was even more junior than I am

Tbh, we are currently in the notice period with them.

Their back-end project was a 'disaster' according to my boss. The front-end work was not a lot better. :D

Apparently, implementing translations in a fresh project (browser extension) would take them 10 days of work. My boss called it bullshit and our junior did it in less than 4 hours.

@nanobot Yes, you are correct. I'm bad with names.

I've never liked the taste so never 'learned' it to drink... So never :)

@spongessuck

My brother pays 550 for a one-bedroom apartment. It is 20 min WALKING from the city center.

I currently have less than 2y experience and I'm paid 2.2k netto (excluding company car, fuel car and other extras OP mentioned). I also live in the region (in Flanders) with slightly lower IT wages.

@electrineer I'm not sure. I'll ask the boss.

They also have written the back-end code for that feature and my boss 'jokingly' said that he is depressed after reviewing it.

@happygimp0 Nothing new broke. It was very successful. But then again, the majority of the merge requests were very minor changes (3 bigger ones)