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Corey Quinn

2 Nov, 9 tweets, 2 min read

In order to help hire some of you (sales and cloud economics roles currently open!), it's me: the Worst Employee as imagined by your company's HR department and resulting policies.
duckbillgroup.com/careers/#open-…

I'm just the right blend of malicious idiot that I should be walked out as soon as I resign; I clearly didn't think to steal any company data BEFORE I resigned.

I'm simultaneously trusted with root in production and not $20 of company money.

I can be fired at any time for any reason or no reason (except based upon membership in a protected class). Here are 2 and a half pages of examples of what I might be fired for.

I'm an SDE III and need to be policed to ensure that I don't describe myself on LinkedIn with a title that another company might possibly understand.

I must be drug tested. Our board gets a pass on this apparently.

I'm a god awful employee, but you're going to discover that by phoning the three people I've put down as references.

I've stayed at each of my jobs for roughly two years, but we both pretend that this is my Forever Job.

I’ve been faking it for twenty years at big tech companies, but your FizzBuzz interview question will finally expose me as the fraud that those other companies fell for.

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So a less-snarky thread about why you should consider working at The @DuckbillGroup as a Cloud Economist.

Because if you fit the role, you definitely have other options...

duckbillgroup.com/careers/

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If you're working more than 40 hours it's a rarity and we should do something about it. We're fixing AWS bills, not SOME NONSENSE HERE. You aren't your job.

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Hello, and welcome to our company's oh-so-very-shitty Security Awareness Training. I'm Chief Cloud Economist Corey Quinn of the Duckbill Group, and I'll be delivering this training for you because I was absolutely NOT the lowest bidder for a change.

The whole point of security awareness is to protect company information. That's what they say, anyway. Here in reality we're going to reference back to the things I spew at you rapid fire and blame you for our institutional shortcomings once we get breached.

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