Man, that's crazy. You can go to big boy jail for that, haha.
When I quit Amazon, they ran to my desk and unplugged my dev machine, since they thought I was going to leave a software "time bomb". I thought that was the stupidest concern in the world, but maybe it does actually happen.
It was maybe his second gig. A lot of us are still little monsters at that point. Not to say that’s okay, but just to say I wasn’t that surprised. What I was surprised by was that I didn’t think he had that kind of animosity. Pretty good at hiding his feelings.
I never understood that “shut them out” reaction for people giving notice. Getting laid off, maybe. But I pick the time and place where I hand over my 2 weeks. I have all day or even a few days to do it, but I have known for a month or three that this was coming, I’ve known for days when it was likely to come, and I’ve known for hours or even days that it was happening today.
You don’t think if I was going to do something shitty that I would have done it first? You guys are really underestimating my intelligence, or at least my ability to plan. But then that’s probably part of why I’m leaving.
Also they say that liars think everyone else is lying, thieves think everyone else is stealing. So I wonder what this says about the paranoid person? Are they a danger to the company?
When I quit Amazon, they ran to my desk and unplugged my dev machine, since they thought I was going to leave a software "time bomb". I thought that was the stupidest concern in the world, but maybe it does actually happen.