I don't like labeling this type of situation mental illness. That suggests that it's only the individual who is ill. It seems to me that situations like this result from a sick system as much or more than from individual sickness.
The article indicated nothing specific that the company had done wrong. It even admitted that the guy was "well treated and well paid" for his hard work - he just didn't like how he was "respected".
It's astonishing me that getting paid and treated well to work hard triggers a comment that the "system is sick".
These are seen as individual problems but if these trends continue I believe they will lead to the failure of human civilization and possibly of the human species itself.
hard worker - exactly the type of concept that the machine uses to exploit the naive.
You realize that Hacker News is focused on people starting businesses, right? Why are you here?
hard worker - exactly the type of concept that the machine uses to exploit the naive.
When you get your car worked on, do you expect that the mechanic should fix your car because you're paying him to or because you give him a hug and tell him that he's a useful human being?
When you get a cup of coffee, do you expect the barista to want not only for you to pay for your double whip latte, but to also feel that you're validating her as a human being?
The guy was "well paid and well treated". Without an iota of evidence that the business was doing anything wrong besides expecting that its employees do a good job - you indite the system and ignore the probable fact that this guy had mental stability issues that were going to come out either at work, his personal life, wherever.
Yes. I go out of my way to do so. I do try to find things to praise because these people have tons of negative interactions everyday. I do my best to make my interactions with them positive.
This is absolutely typical of the problem with society.
Judge me, exclude me, push me under a bridge.
It doesn't matter what you do to me, the day will come when man will be judged by those he has judged.
Your comments here are about as appropriate as if I'd go to the golf course and go on melodramatically about how awful a sport golf is. At some point, people would ask me, "Why are you here if you don't like golf?"