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by MichaelCrawford
4207 days ago
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I just looked at the Jobs page on the site of an actual employer - not a job board post - where they had photos of them all getting drunk. I have had some experiences with alcoholics I do not wish to repeat. A recent employer was a raging alcoholic, I mean to the point that there were hundreds of beer bottles in the recycling bin, one-liter bottles of expensive hard liquor presented on display in the break room. The only room in the whole office that wasn't totally trashed, held a pool table that no one ever actually used, that had several of the kinds of mirrors that liquor distributors give to bars. I didn't clue in to this right away. However the guy bet the farm on a technology without looking into whether that technology actually worked. When I had not gotten it working after just two hours, he started raging at me about how it was all my fault that it didn't work. This for a technology I'd never heard of, and would not touch with a hot rock now that I have experience with it. I finally packed up my stuff, broadcast a terse, angry letter of resignation to the entire company, to the effect that I don't work for alcoholics, then walked out with no advance notice at all. |
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> When I had not gotten it working after just two hours, he started raging at me about how it was all my fault that it didn't work.
This is how most mid-sized non-technology companies operate when it comes to making technical decisions. If you have a couple of months to spare (the guy is verbose), I recommend reading the Gervais Principle[0].
[0] http://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/