<story><title>Ask HN: Who&apos;s been hired through Hacker News?</title><text>Please comment here if you&amp;#x27;ve ever gotten hired through HN and what your experience was like.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>MichaelRo</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>mylastattempt</author><text>This is my first time hearing of &amp;#x27;moral harassment&amp;#x27;. Is that an actual phrase or is English not your native language? Reading the rest of your comment it seems the manager was just a bully, but please elaborate if that understanding is incorrect!</text></item><item><author>atum47</author><text>I was working for a big bank, facing moral harassment almost every day from a shitty manager. The thing with moral harassment is it don&amp;#x27;t happen out of nothing, it is gradual. The manager was testing the waters, every day making the insult a bit harder than the day before. One day he actually cursed me in a meeting with 14 other people and I decided I had enough. Reported him to HR and quit. After that I was working on a game, that I was going to try to make a living out of. I was decided not to go back to work for a while. Then, on HN I saw those to topics - who wants to be hired and who is hiring. I selected 6 openings that seems interesting to me and send an email. 4 wrote me back. 3 gave me a coding challenge. 1 Hired me. Been working with them for almost 3 years now. Great company. Really nice people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atum47</author><text>&amp;gt; They would be permanently traumatized by the level of aggression in other jobs&lt;p&gt;Started working when I was 15. First in a printing company, later on factory floor. Lots and lots of funny inappropriate jokes. Not even once insulted by a superior or a colleague.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; privileged to be able to walk away&lt;p&gt;Some people will take abuse for money, I don&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; delicate snowflakes&lt;p&gt;Bully me in an environment where it&amp;#x27;s OK for me to punch you in the face and find out how much of a snowflake I really am</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: Who&apos;s been hired through Hacker News?</title><text>Please comment here if you&amp;#x27;ve ever gotten hired through HN and what your experience was like.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>MichaelRo</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>mylastattempt</author><text>This is my first time hearing of &amp;#x27;moral harassment&amp;#x27;. Is that an actual phrase or is English not your native language? Reading the rest of your comment it seems the manager was just a bully, but please elaborate if that understanding is incorrect!</text></item><item><author>atum47</author><text>I was working for a big bank, facing moral harassment almost every day from a shitty manager. The thing with moral harassment is it don&amp;#x27;t happen out of nothing, it is gradual. The manager was testing the waters, every day making the insult a bit harder than the day before. One day he actually cursed me in a meeting with 14 other people and I decided I had enough. Reported him to HR and quit. After that I was working on a game, that I was going to try to make a living out of. I was decided not to go back to work for a while. Then, on HN I saw those to topics - who wants to be hired and who is hiring. I selected 6 openings that seems interesting to me and send an email. 4 wrote me back. 3 gave me a coding challenge. 1 Hired me. Been working with them for almost 3 years now. Great company. Really nice people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>water-your-self</author><text>You are paying for may labour, not my mental health. As soon as you think you can mistreat me I am walking. 10 times out of 10, no negotiations.&lt;p&gt;Taking away the value I produce is the consequence of your actions.</text></comment>