I have a small team of developers working under me. And we were working on building a new product for our startup. The engineer who was building the tool had been working on it for 2 months and regularly giving us fake status updates. During this time we even sponsored him to come to our country from Peru. Now after 2 months of living here, he just came up yesterday and says that he is leaving for a much better company (FAANG). And he says that he didn't complete anything on that tool in last 2 months. I realise that I have also dropped the ball here by not checking out the demo and I shouldn't have just believed him. But we are working in very small startup so there is a huge load divided among us. I am not sure what are my options now. I know I can't stop him from joining that company. Can we as the company take legal action here? Edit for clarification as this post is getting viral - He had worked for us since few months and we had launched few features together. This incident happened with the most recent feature release after he landed here. I’ve realised that I’m a shit manager. I should move my focus back to coding.
Just wish that he is joining Amazon 😈
First, sorry that you are in such a situation. Hopefully, things get better soon. Not sure, but I think 2 people haven’t done their job so legal action can’t be just be on one.
I think you just move on and learn from it. I think pursuing this further might end up reflecting poorly on the company. He wont be able to use you for a rec and if you happened to cross paths with him or in the future and if someone reaches out to you about him, well then you can be honest
Let it be
Honestly..you went 2 months without checking on the work? That itself is unforgivable. You don’t have a legal recourse here. This wasn’t a consulting/deliverable based gig. Just learn from your mistake and move on.
OP should stop worrying about this engineer and start worrying about getting fired himself for so clearly dropping the ball.
@Google - it doesn’t matter what sort of a gig it is - consulting or not — constitutional rights of a person say that they can’t be forced to do anything !!! Whoever FORCES someone to do something is subject to legal action in our great country !! So , You can ask for their resignation or that person can resign but u can’t FORCE anyone to do anything, even if you are zucky of fbook or Amz owner .. no one can violate anyone’s constitutional rights by FOrcing them to do anything / you might tell them that here we as a team are looking for so n so but it’s the constitutional right of the person — whether they choose to do it or not !!! Anyone who violates their constitutional right by FORcing them to do something via any gig - consulting, full time , contracting - is subject to legal action
You got got. https://youtu.be/rQ6N-sb7SVQ
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Ah, the old "trust, but verify"...
He would eventually request green card, if I were you, wouldn’t give him the experience letter needed to apply for permanent residency. Just to give myself some satisfaction. Will teach the rest of the team to lie.
For 2 months? Dont think so
That’s too harsh. Recuperating the amount lost by company because of 2 months would be the extreme case here.
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