I really hate it when I try to be careful with disclosing information of my employer in a rant on Reddit but the CTO who fires me go there and replies in full detail in an attempt to shame you. http://archive.is/sfP00

Because I have bigger balls (or a small brain, depending how you see it) I'll leave the post on but with my response to his comment on my thread as anybody may dig my Reddit account before hiring me for a job.

And yes, he is the same guy I refer in this past rant https://devrant.com/rants/1089376/...

It fucking sucks that the CTO will sleep safe and sound and I can't do much than looking for another job and contribute to FLOSS projects while I build new stuff to improve my skills all this while money is running out. I'm glad I'm living with my parents after this shit hit the fan, less stuff to worry about, but this is not life.

That's one sexy secretaria, amigo.

Well let's get the obvious out of the way first:

-You should always show the utmost respect to your superiors, regardless whether you disagree with them or if they are flat out wrong. If they can't be reasoned with (presented in a respectful manner) when something is wrong, then that place isn't the place for you and you should move on.

-If you ever want to bitch about a CTO or anybody that is technical, the last place to do it is on Reddit. Probably not even here either. It's just asking for trouble.

-If you have anything that may be considered offensive in any way, don't have it plastered somewhere public, especially not repos on a place like GitHub/bitbucket. Why? Because someone technical will find it.

From reading the back and forth, I don't really blame the CTO. When he hired you, yes there was more frontend work than you thought. But maybe he thought that you showed the skills to be able to learn what was necessary? To blame someone for hiring you into a situation you think you weren't ready to handle speaks poorly on your own self-confidence in your abilities. Sounds like he saw the potential in you that you weren't/aren't seeing.

Regarding your dismissal, yes it happened days after your review that you thought was overall positive. Maybe this incident wasn't brought to his attention until after he wrote your review? Maybe from the CTO's perspective, your negatives were weighing down your worth to the company's cost? If you wrote stellar code, this incident with your superior probably would have resulted in a slap on the wrist. But according to them, it wasn't, so that probably played more of a factor than you thought. Of course they would use your code even if it was buggy, because they paid for it and it's cheaper to fix than recode.

As for his reply on Reddit, you were trashing him, and he defended his actions. No point in getting pissed over someone defending themselves.

Feel lucky he didn't include anything sexist on your record and move on.

@codePolitics your comment is absolutely haram!!!! /s

@JMoodyFWD Since all was WFH and communications happened on Slack, I can tell you as a former Amazon Customer support associate that in written communications (chat or email) comments can look disrespectful when you didn't meant to be rude to the reader. When you sound disrespectful to a client you immediately know by the feedback they leave. In this case and for this job, with my female senior, I was unaware of any rude behavior towards her until my head was clean cutoff.

Indeed, it seems that such issue was brought to him after he wrote the performance review. I cannot wrap my mind for why she decides to bring the issue to the CTO instead of talking to me first on the first sight of trouble. My conclusion is that she really disliked to work with me.

@JMoodyFWD All code that I delivered and was merged into master branch was good, and if something was off, I fixed myself. I even make it easy for my senior to review my merge request by generating a micro CHANGELOG with the commits and gitchangelog, how much machista my attitude can be? I don't know.

I was trashing the guy, but for the public it was a unknown person from random unknown company, what pisses me more is the fact that the CTO comes along two months later and he shares in full detail something I should have been aware from reading my performance review or by talking with my senior.

And, yeah, whatever one does will always have the risk to look offensive to others so I don't really mind illustrating one of my Emacs packages with beautiful woman with tick thigh. Anyone will find a way to call me for stating in public my political inclinations, my religious belief or, in general, my likes and dislikes.

I cannot cater it to everybody and neither I can look into the future to guess what thing I say or have done will cause me troubles, thus is best for me to behave on the most respectable manner I can think of in accordance with my own conscious.

If I were accused of being sexist, that would be just the cherry on top of the cake @JMoodyFWD

But it would be just a number in a statistic chart of how men are accused of things without giving them an opportunity to defend themselves, just as the current political climate in America almost demands it.

I do recruitments and fucking hate social medias !!

So... you got fired, bitched about it online and then got hissy when the guy called you out on (what is arguably) some pretty problematic behaviour?

We all have our bad days. Some of us get fired (god knows I’ve been through that ringer a few times), and yes, we all love a good rant and to bitch.

The guy’s response was kinda cogent though, and there’s always two sides to these things.

I’d recommend a period of introspection, examine what his feedback was, as there’s usually no smoke without a little fire...

And yeah, probably don’t complain on such a prominent forum like reddit, especially if people like colleagues can link your online presence to your IRL identity.

@grubbering I know because I saw your nickname on a comment in another rant. The "web 2.0" fucking sucks indeed.

@Brolls I got "hissy" because I was never notified by anybody the real reason of my dismissal and finally I get to know it on a public forum.

Two sides of a story, indeed, but I never got to expose my side given the "main reason" for my dismissal. I've been reflecting for the last two months on the basis what my dismissal stated, I thought of the CTO from time to time as if he was my girlfriend lol mostly because he cut my access to company's resources without any previous notification the next morning after deciding to fire me.

But yes, I had gave this matter a handful of thought. This new development don't bring something new to the table than a guy flexing his muscles on how he could damage my career for being a machista.

@shackra the web 4.0 will crush them ;)

@Bitwise I don't believe in luck, but I have to say I'm very lucky to get crush my own pride as a man and nothing/somebody else as result of all this.

I always thought "someone had it rougher than me" but I never thought someone had it that rough as you.

Thank you for your comment and for your advices.