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6 Bizarre Ways Software Developers Get Fired
Whether they’re hacking their own companies or playing League of Legends for 40 hours a week, these developers all have one thing in common — a death wish for their careers.
Coders are the only people who signed up for a career trying to automate itself out of existence. We have a death wish — for our jobs.
That’s why there are so many stories on the internet about us getting fired for avoidable and hilarious offenses.
If you hate your job and want to go out with a bang, here are six ideas from developers who have come before you. Think of it as standing on the shoulders of giants … and then jumping to your death.
6. Print anime porn until you melt the company printer.
Imagine you’re at work, and you think, “I’d like to see somethin’ dirty…with tentacles.”
Most people would let that thought pass until after-hours. But not this guy. Instead, he found some anime porn and sent it to the company printer. But there was a problem — the normal paper was dull, with no sparkle.
So he replaced the normal paper with transparency paper which the laser printer promptly melted.
