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Leaving Google

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67 pointsthewarpaint22 comments

I get the attitude regarding it’s February & he probably eeked out one last bonus; but there’s some funny stuff there:

* https://skyenet.dev/robots.txt * coincidence that it was posted at 4:20 * https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...

… maybe it’s all fake, too.

I am curious what kind of work privacy engineers do?

> Yours in calendrical heresy,

Can anybody explain this signoff?

It appears to be something related to the sci-fi book "Ninefox Gambit", based on a really cursory google search.

Not having read the book I can't really speculate further.

I confirm that (read the book, as well as another from the same author).

Yours in a world where nothing functions properly.

how did this end up here? there is no blog in the address, i dont know the person, a google search doesnt show anything from the domain. So either the author or someone with direct communication posted it (for what reason?)

Somebody has got a big ego. Another one from the series "I am a very important person"

Tokenistic "Google sucks" blog post?

not a blog

Also, how did this end up in the front page of HN? This doesn't have much information compared to other periodic "Leaving Google" type posts.

Googlers traditionally resign in February after collecting in January their annual bonus for the previous year.

This is a great strategy for many employers. Also, if they'll let you max your 401k match for the year in January, grab that, too.

> What are you doing next?

> I'm going to motorcycle around Washington. I'm going to camp in the Hoh Rainforest once the weather warms up. I'm going to swim 100 miles (over the span of several weeks). After all that, we'll see.

I feel like I can relate to this about as much I can relate to an Oscar winners speech.

Amazingly this self righteousness sets in after cashing the bonus check. Hypocrisy anyone ??

More hubris from the company that thought it could maintain ethics over the corruption of holding power. What fools.

Is everyone at google really insecure? Do they not realize that normal mortals do not feel the need to announce to the world that they left a job?

It's an (as far as I can tell) unlinked page on their personal website. You have no idea who the intended audience is - I suspect it's not "the world", but people they know and who might be interested in the why.

Yeah I want to double down on this,

This reads like a personal goodbye that somehow got published here.... probably not for the world

It was posted by the author on Twitter, so it was absolutely for the world:

https://twitter.com/invtym/status/1227321408469909504

I get the sense that this person is probably a nightmare to work with. I don't necessarily disagree with many of their opinions, but the sense of self-importance is off the charts. Realistically, this person is probably a peon in a massive company and had very little impact.

Curious where you read a "sense of self-importance" from these few lines?

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