Googler... ex-Googler

> Googler...

Whole things reads like someone leaving a cult.

It's ok to be sad about leaving a job but your identity shouldn't be so tied up in it that you're crying in a blog post online.

We all lose jobs and we all get on with it. Obviously they're talented and will land fine somewhere.

I'm not trying to be mean but it's bad that a person can get upset to this point around a job. The corp isn't caring.

I disagree. This person apparently had a great time working this job and I imagine it’s difficult to end up with the responsibilities they had without being intrinsically motivated. It’s perfectly alright and valid to be sad about losing the ability to express that part of yourself to make a living. The whole point of the post is that yes, the company doesn’t give a damn about anything but the bottom line, but the author did.

I'm fine with "Googler". Google employs 180,000 people. There are cities half that size with their own demonym.

> This person apparently had a great time working this job and I imagine it’s difficult to end up with the responsibilities they had without being intrinsically motivated.

I think you can have a great time and build good relationships with teammates while still realizing you are a cog in the machine.

The way author writes the blog, you'd think they were working on the first Moon flight or the Manhattan project, whereas the reality is they were working on some CSS spec at Google, which tens of thousands of other people have been doing for probably 2 decades now.

It's routine maintenance work on existing stuff.

You're criticizing people for caring so much because you think the best that employment can be is transactional money in exchange for competent work?

Wouldn't you want to hire and nurture people who cared so much about what they were working on and who they worked with, as the author seemed to be?

(Not that you'd want them to be upset if it ever had to end, but you'd want the goodness part to happen? Better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all?)

> Wouldn't you want to hire and nurture people who cared so much about what they were working on and who they worked with, as the author seemed to be?

From the companies perspective: absolutely! If I can get people who will put in 10x for 1x of pay, nothing like it!

From employees perspective: Care for your work like a good construction worker does. They don't cut corners, speak-up when they spot issues and put in their body and mind. But they don't come back to the site at 11PM to take one more look at it (I do sometimes because solving the programming problem is fun, not because my corporate overlords will pat me on the back). It is indeed important to make sure that the building is strong but remember that you don't own it.

Not to disrespect you, but I don't think your opinion on the value of their work is relevant, the author's is.

Sure, and water is wet.

Yet the blog was posted in the public domain, so saying what is and isn't relevant is...irrelevant.

It's in a public forum, up for discussion. End of story.

Of course you're free to discuss. You're belittling the author's expression of grief because their job was 'routine maintenance' of 'some CSS spec (...) which tens of thousands of other people have been doing for probably 2 decades now' and I'm saying they're entitled to their grief regardless of how you feel about the job's content.

Yes, they're a cog, as almost all of us are, and it would have been better for their own sake to realise that, but losing something you enjoy still sucks.

>your identity shouldn't be so tied up in it that you're crying in a blog post online

If a personal blog isn't the right place to express distress when being fired, what is a personal blog even for?