Comment by mahranch | Hacker News Reader

Comment by mahranch | Hacker News Reader

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And I really hate to be cynical since as you say, her conclusion is decent, but where she says:

> "PS: I left that job a few months later — one of the best decisions I've ever made!"

I would bet my first born and my entire life savings that she didn't leave voluntarily.

A good portion of my previous job was doing salary negotiations and personnel management. What I would bet the farm on, and would do so without hesitation, is that they gave her the raise, then immediately began looking for her replacement. Once they found a suitable candidate, they either canned her or found reasons to ding her on performance reviews, being late, etc, which would be justification to fire her with cause. I know because it's pretty much the operating manual for anyone who was in my position. Why pay someone double when you can find another sucker to work for half the pay? Even if it was 3/4 pay, it's still a savings and when we're talking tens of thousands of dollars, it's enough.

She was fired from her job and/or shown the door after asking for (and getting) her raise. I guarantee it.

Your glee in the baseless speculation that a woman was a) naive and b) lying to cover up some perceived indiscretion, is unsettling.

It's another example of the challenge women face in our industry, not to mention the overall culture of shame around firings.

Did the parent poster change their post? I ask because nothing in their post indicated to me that they were focussed on this person being a woman, that they were naive or that there was a suggestion of an indiscretion.

That is not to say that the parent poster and their employer/company does not sound sociopathic, just that we needn't bring sex warfare into this.

I have to say though, if the parent is being truthful (i.e. not trolling), it is a pretty sad state of affairs and pretty disappointing. If you ever find yourself working with/for such actors, start looking elsewhere. There are plenty of great employers/people in the world that you needn't waste your time working with scrooge-like caricatures.

He said:

> "Why pay someone double when you can find another sucker to work for half the pay?"

I see no mention of a "woman". Just because the person of interest was a woman, that doesn't make the comment sexist. Where I work (not in America), women get the exact same treatment as men. And when a women / lady gets a bad code review, she doesn't attribute it to being sexism and threaten to sue. She has the common sense to acknowledge her mistakes and improve upon feedback.

From my perspective (again, I'm not American), sexism is becoming a poor excuse for getting preferential treatment. And that's absurdly ironic.

> when you can find another sucker to work for half the pay?

Who says you can? People who will do that are rare, and often aren't as good as people who expect something closer to market.

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