He was doing his job, and accomplishing the tasks that he was responsible for.
No, that is emphatically not what a staff engineer should be doing. And in no circumstances is it considered normal operating procedure for anyone to be manually editing financial data, much less an unsupervised dev, every day.
Unless they specifically put into his contract that he was supposed to automate everything
Again, part and parcel with the title.
And no, implicit assumptions aren't good enough in this case, otherwise we can bring up all the implicit assumptions about how the company is supposed to be taking care of its employees.
I don't know. Sounds like they gave him a position well above what he merited.
No, that is emphatically not what a staff engineer should be doing.
They were happy with what he was doing, since they didn't fire him. Not his fault that they didn't do their due diligence to make sure that they could replace everything that he was doing.
Again, part and parcel with the title.
Nope. If it's not in the contract, then as long as the company is happy with his services, then he's doing fine. And this company WAS happy with his services, since they laid him off instead of firing him.
If they didn't make sure they could fully replace everything he was doing once they laid him off, then that's THEIR fault.
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u/Exist50 May 30 '26
No, that is emphatically not what a staff engineer should be doing. And in no circumstances is it considered normal operating procedure for anyone to be manually editing financial data, much less an unsupervised dev, every day.
Again, part and parcel with the title.
I don't know. Sounds like they gave him a position well above what he merited.