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<h1 style="text-align: center;">Congratulations, You've been fired!</h1>
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<li>&nbsp;] by Dan Lyons @nytimes.com - Lyons is a writer who transitions into a career as a software developer working for a trendy startup company named Hubspot. This is a brief insight into his experience working there</li>
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<h2>[WHY]</h2>
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<li><strong>] READ THE FULL ARTICLE</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/opinion/sunday/congratulations-youve-been-fired.html?r=0" target="_blank">http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/opinion/sunday/congratulations-youve-been-fired.html?_r=0</a></li>
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<h2>[WHEN]</h2>
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<li>] 2016-04-09</li>
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<h2>[EXAMPLE]</h2>
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<li>]&nbsp;HubSpot was founded in 2006 in Cambridge, Mass., and went public in 2014. It&rsquo;s one of those <strong>slick, fast-growing start-ups that are so much in the news these days, with the beanbag chairs and unlimited vacation &mdash; a corporate utopia where there is no need for work-life balance because work is life and life is work.</strong> Imagine a frat house mixed with a kindergarten mixed with Scientology, and you have an idea of what it&rsquo;s like.&nbsp;</li>
<li><strong>]&nbsp;Tech workers have no job security. You&rsquo;re serving a &ldquo;tour of duty&rdquo; that might last a year or two, according to the founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman,</strong> who is the co-author of a book espousing his ideas, &ldquo;The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age.&rdquo; Companies burn you out and churn you out when someone better, or cheaper, becomes available. &ldquo;Your company is not your family,&rdquo; is another line from Mr. Hoffman&rsquo;s book.</li>
<li>]&nbsp;UNFORTUNATELY, working at a start-up all too often involves <strong>getting bossed around by undertrained (or untrained) managers and fired on a whim.</strong> <strong>Bias based on age, race and gender is rampant, as is sexual harassment.</strong> The free snacks are nice, but you also must tolerate having your head stuffed with silly jargon and ideology about being on a mission to change the world.&nbsp;<strong>Wealth is generated, but most of the loot goes to a handful of people at the top,</strong> the founders and venture capital investors.</li>
<li>]&nbsp;&nbsp;The &ldquo;business development representatives,&rdquo; who were really glorified telemarketers, were paid around $3,000 a month, which works out to $18.75 per hour, if you work 40 hours a week, though many worked more.&nbsp;Grinding out phone calls, trying to make a number, hooked to a machine that watches you work &mdash; this is progress? &nbsp;</li>
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<h2>[REFERENCE]</h2>
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<li>]&nbsp;SRC=HN(669)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11463434" target="_blank">comments</a>(423)</li>
<li>] * Dan has been making the rounds with this article, and a series of similar artilces promoting his new book&nbsp;&ldquo;Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble.&rdquo; Here are some other variants of it&nbsp;</li>
<li>&gt; ]&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-comes-age-bias-tech-companies-dont-even-bother-lie-dan-lyons" target="_blank">When It Comes to Age Bias, Tech Companies Don&rsquo;t Even Bother to Lie</a>&nbsp;(linkedin.com),&nbsp;SRC=HN(245)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11430596" target="_blank">comments</a>(186) &nbsp;</li>
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