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The Digital Pink Slip: GitHub Edition

The Digital Pink Slip: GitHub Edition
That moment when your access to the company's GitHub repo gets revoked before HR even tells you you're fired. Nothing says "your services are no longer required" quite like git pushing you out of the organization! The digital equivalent of finding your desk contents in a cardboard box. Bonus anxiety: frantically checking if you committed that side project code before losing access forever.

The Digital Pink Slip

The Digital Pink Slip
When your GitHub access gets revoked before HR even calls you. Nothing says "surprise career transition opportunity" like finding out you're fired through a Git permission error. The modern equivalent of coming to work and your keycard doesn't work anymore. At least they didn't just git push --force you out of existence entirely!

The Commit History That Ended A Career

The Commit History That Ended A Career
Ah, the GitHub contribution graph that spells out "F*CK" in bright green squares. Classic career suicide by commit history. Pro tip: Your manager doesn't appreciate artistic expression in version control, especially when it takes months of carefully timed commits to execute. Next time maybe try writing unit tests instead of profanity with your work account? That résumé is gonna need updating faster than a npm dependency.

The Mustache Revenge: Corporate Amnesia At Its Finest

The Mustache Revenge: Corporate Amnesia At Its Finest
Revenge is a dish best served with a fake mustache. This programmer got fired, then immediately got recruited by the same company that axed him. Instead of declining, he chose chaos – showing up disguised with an assortment of fake mustaches. The absolute madlad even had the interview manager compliment his "glorious facial accoutrement" without realizing they were interviewing the same guy they just fired. Corporate amnesia at its finest. Ten years in the industry and I've seen layoffs followed by panic hiring, but this takes it to an art form. The real punchline? HR departments are so disconnected they can't even recognize their own recently terminated employees. Classic case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand just fired.

Digital Detox: Unexpected Side Effects

Digital Detox: Unexpected Side Effects
The classic bait-and-switch of workplace expectations! That blissful moment when you decide to implement a "healthy email boundary" only to discover your company had a slightly different interpretation of work-life balance. The parenthetical "(I got fired)" hits with the precision of a production bug that only manifests after deployment to 10,000 users. It's the digital equivalent of ignoring your AWS billing alerts until your credit card spontaneously combusts.

When You Still Have Slack

When You Still Have Slack
That awkward moment when IT forgets to revoke your Slack access after firing you, and now you're lurking in the shadows like Goku plotting his revenge. Time to watch your ex-coworkers panic when you drop the "I can see all your messages about the production server being down" bomb. Nothing says professional closure like witnessing your replacement struggle with the codebase you deliberately left undocumented. Digital ghost mode: ACTIVATED .