Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (May 2026)

My dad was offered a buyout when he was around my current age. It included 10 years seniority added to his pension and health insurance until Medicare kicked in. He never looked back.

Sadly, nobody is willing to pay me to go away.

I’m not quite at the point where I want to quit, but some people have turned off their brain, and it frustrates me.

They don’t think critically, let the LLM add random stuff, and then let the LLM argue for them on GitHub. When I talk to the human they have no idea. But 60s later they post a 3 page essay explaining they remembered and why x or y.

The thing is, I can tell why the LLM threw it in. It picked up on a side discussion in the comments, but we agreed in person to do something else in a different PR. Now all of a sudden it added a whole bunch of stuff unrelated to this PR.

This last week was one of my most challenging weeks in my ~20 year work life. I work in big tech, but am a relative latecomer to it (6 years). I'm a manager, and someone who was a very senior IC, a mentor, and work friend of mine, became my manager 6 months ago. It was a "boiling frog" situation that blew up spectacularly last week. I had to talk to my skip-level manager about it and the only viable solution was me leaving my team behind to go manage another team. I'm still bummed about it and taking some time off before starting the new role.

Do I want to be fired? No, because the job market sucks, I make good money, and I live in a HCOL area with a mortgage, a wife and a young kid. I need to sustain (and grow) this for another 10+ years minimum before having any kind of financial independence.

Spent most of last year on a project that got cancelled in January. Got moved to a new one that doesn't have much actual work, long stretches of waiting, scope shifting, and nothing is shipping.

I'm digging myself into a hole of self-doubt. I wish I were working on something with real users!

Of course, I'm doing interviews, but it hasn't been an easy ride. If I were fired I'd have more time for prepping, at least.

I dont have a intern , so technically i cannot be fired :(

I want to get fired from my job search. We'll have to see if SSDI (been about 6 months since applying) or a job opportunity comes through first.

I’m having problems with too many competing projects recently, so I had to reach to my boss and ask to leave most of them. It was not even the workload but the constant context switching that did it.

Currently waiting a month to check how things change, but if there is no change in my stress levels, I’ll look for a way out.

My rant for the day is having these non-deterministic agent flows that I have to evaluate with even more slop code is rapidly killing my passion for quality engineering.

Still eagerly waiting for AI to take my job.

Remodels are not a lifestyle, I'd rather built systems than dining rooms

Quiet quitting/firing/etc.. all died in 2024 dude.