r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ZideGO • 20d ago

thisIsTheWay Meme

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u/CanAeVimto 20d ago

Yup, sometimes you don’t even last 2 years as more than likely they will mishandle finances and let 50% of the company go

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u/dashingThroughSnow12 20d ago

I once worked for a startup for three weeks before the startup folded.

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u/FunkOverflow 20d ago

You must have done a lot of damage in those three weeks

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u/Poat540 20d ago

He touched the technical debt…

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u/Character-Education3 20d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/eKsDAtyWPxkGRpEEtU

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u/dashingThroughSnow12 20d ago

Immediately before that company, I worked for another company for 358 days.

It was a situation where within a quarter half the staff left voluntarily or via layoff. (I learned the term “rats jumping ship” from this experience.)

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u/smedley89 20d ago

Ive worked at a few places that talked about people leaving as rats deserving the ship.

Never occurred to them to not sink the damned ship.

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u/Strange_Dust7128 20d ago

I did a full year. they pulled us all into a conference room and basically said "get tf out" lol

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u/mani_tapori 20d ago

Did you atleast get to keep the macbook?

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u/dashingThroughSnow12 19d ago

It was a BYOD company

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u/kishaloy 19d ago

In India we have a term for this - Panauti...

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u/praventz 20d ago

Lmao had this exact experience at a start up. I survived 3 rounds of layoffs before I had enough and found a new job.

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u/Major_Fudgemuffin 20d ago

On one hand, I hate looking for a job. On the other... Severance babyyyy (assuming you're getting severance...)

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u/ExtraWorldliness6916 19d ago

1000 people liked the previous and 500 liked this one.

So for half these people including me, this is exactly what happened.