The Power Of Words. A JIRA Comment Away From Being Fired
<p>I’ve covered how <a href="https://medium.com/@tsecretdeveloper/my-colleague-got-fired-for-this-1%EF%B8%8F%E2%83%A3-mistake-356da12d7636" rel="noopener">my colleague got fired</a> in a previous article. If you don’t want to read that article I’ll break it down for you. They didn’t bother going to meetings.</p>
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<p>We weren’t surprised that they were asked to leave</p>
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<p>There is something else that troubles me about the situation. It’s about how the “firee” managed their manager.</p>
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<p>In this case not even their manager. This is about their bosses boss and the relationships they have</p>
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<h1>What happened?</h1>
<p>This is a trivial situation from a <a href="https://medium.com/@tsecretdeveloper/my-colleague-got-fired-for-this-1%EF%B8%8F%E2%83%A3-mistake-356da12d7636" rel="noopener">trivial front-end developer</a>. The developer saw a message from his boss's boss on a JIRA ticket.</p>
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<p>Probably something about a wrong shade of green</p>
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<p>Alignment issues or text not displayed properly is part of a front-end developer's daily work. Our favorite (soon-to-be unemployed in this particular story) developer decided this wasn’t a good comment on the ticket. This is because they wrote</p>
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<p>Designers don’t use JIRA</p>
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<p>Which by itself isn’t a <strong><em>hanging offense</em></strong>. It shouldn’t have had any impact on their performance or how they were seen.</p>
<p>If you think it didn’t change things, you are as naive as they are.</p>
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<p>IMHO. I mean IMO because there is no need to be humble</p>
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<h1>The cost</h1>
<p>This is the personal cost for the developer in question. I remember it wasn’t specifically about this ticket, but they managed to get a poor reputation.</p>
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