You know who doesn't get fired?
Story time: We had the most brilliant and insufferable devops engineer I've ever met. I don't mean just your standard grump overworked sys admin. This guy was a treasure. 1) Previously all engineers had 20% time and would work on personal projects. We had a ton of extra servers lying around and it was fairly simple to provision some space to work on an idea. His first week he went to the CTO and had 20% time axed and demanded that all provisioning go directly through him and all physical servers be nuked from orbit. 2) They got him a personal secretary. He routinely had her go 5 blocks to get him gummy bears, buy him a waffle iron and make him waffles in the office, and routinely made sexist comments. 3) Op sec. We would have media come by the office once in a while so this guy instituted a policy of "security through shame" If you didn't have 2factor auth on your email he would send you snide comments. If you didn't use full disk encryption you had to go to a mandatory course on personal security. If you left your laptop unlocked at your desk to go the bathroom it was prank emails and screwing with your settings. On the 3rd time he would confiscate your laptop and lock it in a personal safe he had under his desk for the day. 4) This guy would use our internal channels and slack to shame anyone non-technical. One time the personal assistant to a VP in another department accidentally posted a listing asking if anyone had a bed for sale to the channel for asking about restaurants in the area. 24hours of shame where he got the entire tech team to participate emailing everyone in the company if they had any food shaped furniture for sale. Apparently she broke down crying and had to go home for the day. 5) Despite the fact that we had no QA team this guy refused to deploy hotfixes even for critical launches. You got one day a week to launch code. You got one chance. If there was anything wrong it was, "roll back and try next week." Unless of course the issue was you needed a CDN cache clear or there was something wrong with the build. Then you could email him (directly after the deployment) and have him refuse to respond or believe you for about an hour before he would actually do anything.
These guys get promoted. They run things.
They fire the pushovers.
After that I got permission to work from home for a month and used the opportunity to find a new job.
How is that not the end of proof needed to a court?
Unless they are claiming he made a counterfeit badge which is silly.
There also have to be tax records on the state and federal side that a court can order them to retrieve?
The saddest part of that whole story is what I recognize as the descent into the mental state of homelessness, because once you are there, it's REALLY hard to dig yourself out to start thinking normally again. He's been at it since 1999, he's not coming back out whole, maybe ever. Story starts to have grammatical errors and paranoia at the end too, not good signs.
Because this guy is, in all probability, mentally ill. There's no evidence I can find of Chrysler actually speaking to prospective employers or lying about whatever employment history he has.
Here's (what he calls) the Oakland circuit court case judgement, an appeal of his original case: http://www.michbar.org/file/opinions/appeals/2003/120403/212...
To wit: he claimed that Chrysler lied about his employment history to a perspective employer, but the only perspective employer presented as evidence testified that she hadn't even contacted Chrysler about him.
Lacking literally any evidence of wrongdoing on Chrysler's part, the case was dismissed, and this appeals court upholds that dismissal.
He lists other "case numbers", most of which I can't turn up (no pacer access here), but I suspect it's just a litany of affirmations of the original judgement, or refusals to hear the case, or that they're simply filings of various sorts that never went anywhere. This simply looks like a persecution he is suffering in his mind.
I point it out not to be a grammar nazi, but to further a point: we all have different writing ability and/or attention to detail. The man made many more mistakes than you did, certainly, but I don't think it's necessarily a reflection of mental illness.
There's a lot of armchair mental health diagnoses in this thread, and I think they're a bit presumptuous.
http://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chronic...
It sounds like this person was dismissed from his job (he mentioned it in one of his videos), and he hasn't been able to find employment because of his mental illness.
It's sad that we don't do enough to help those with mental illness. It would go a long way to making their lives better and the rest of our lives safer.
The details he provides about proof of employment and wrong-doing by Chrysler when asked to confirm it are very clear. If those are real, we can't tell - this looks like something a good journalist would be able to uncover, and maybe help achieving some kind of closure.
There are certainly aspects of his writing that might be suggestive (the graphorrhea and rambling over minor details, irrational paranoia, etc.) of certain mental illnesses. Since paranoid schizophrenia was mentioned by the parent comment, take that for example: it's not something that comes about because of a single situation later on in life. There are clear, measurable physical symptoms in that instance such as a significant and measurable difference in grey matter. That doesn't happen because of any episode you've experienced.
What _is_ clear is he can barely write, he records videos of himself outdoors that are barely audible, and even if he won this strange case, he's clearly not employable now. More than likely his mental illness started after he became an engineer and quickly progressed.
I also feel like his case would be strengthened significantly if he simply took the time to write properly - capitalize, good grammar, etc.
Anyway if true, it's an outrage; hope he receives due compensation. If not, I don't know what to say.
