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Andor Jakab
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Andor Jakab writes My Blog, a personal blog at andorjakab.blog.hu about career and politics. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “This is why I don't give you a job”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite the post "This is why I don't give you a job" as a viral example of European employers avoiding hiring women because of maternity leave costs. One says it made the author a minor celebrity.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- This is why I don't give you a job2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-01-07
What Hacker News says?
Sort of "meta", but interesting: http://andorjakab.blog.hu/2012/01/03/hungary_not_funny_anymo... That blogpost made me kind of like a celeb, a bloghero or something. Fact is, that single blogpost generated half a million pageviews, 91141 Facebook likes in a matter of days. It was covered on national television, I was "the blogger of the week" at the biggest local blog provider (blog.hu), a whole bunch of responses w…
Comment linking /2012/01/03/hungary_not_funny_anymore
on “This is why I don't give you a job”Submitted This is why I don't give you a job as a story · 588 points
HN discussion> It should be a law because left to their own devices companies will otherwise simply evade the problem and hire guys instead of equally qualified women. Sometimes these laws actually discourage hiring women. For example, you say: > companies only have the requirement to re-instate the person that took leave after they return This is a great example of why these laws are more complex than they appear. For example,…
Comment linking /2014/03/02/this_is_why_i_don_t_give_you_a_job
on “Why we offer parental leave”Submitted I don't give a job. Am I being antisocial? - Andor Jakab as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> I've hired half a dozen female employees in the past four years, and living in Europe, this "issue" didn't cross my mind. Maybe not for you (Is your maternity leave government paid? This isn't.), but for many european entrepreneurs this is a very big issue. See the first few paragraphs of the "This is why I don't give you a job" post, which went viral a while back (linked below). Even when leave is government subs…
Comment linking /2014/03/02/this_is_why_i_don_t_give_you_a_job
on “Why we offer parental leave”Submitted Really Simple Tax as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI guess it depends where you are in Europe. I'm glad I'm in the US and not in Hungary. http://andorjakab.blog.hu/2012/01/06/this_is_why_i_don_t_giv... Edit: I found it interesting that in http://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/releasespublications/docume... on page 58, about 58% of sampled women in Ireland are in jobs classified as "low skilled non-manual" or "elementary" compared to about 32% for men in medium-to-large b…
Comment linking /2012/01/06/this_is_why_i_don_t_give_you_a_job
on “How Google became such a great place to work”