I’ve covered how my colleague got fired in a previous article. If you don’t want to read that article I’ll break it down for you. They didn’t bother going to meetings.
We weren’t surprised that they were asked to leave
There is something else that troubles me about the situation. It’s about how the “firee” managed their manager.
In this case not even their manager. This is about their bosses boss and the relationships they have
What happened?
This is a trivial situation from a trivial front-end developer. The developer saw a message from his boss's boss on a JIRA ticket.
Probably something about a wrong shade of green
Alignment issues or text not displayed properly is part of a front-end developer's daily work. Our favorite (soon-to-be unemployed in this particular story) developer decided this wasn’t a good comment on the ticket. This is because they wrote
Designers don’t use JIRA
Which by itself isn’t a hanging offense. It shouldn’t have had any impact on their performance or how they were seen.
If you think it didn’t change things, you are as naive as they are.
IMHO. I mean IMO because there is no need to be humble
The cost
This is the personal cost for the developer in question. I remember it wasn’t specifically about this ticket, but they managed to get a poor reputation.