You know what really sucks...?

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eeve
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You know what really sucks...?

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I got hired at a new company about 4 months ago when their previous lead programmer left. I've spent the last 4 mo. working furiously on a large internal project that will do everything from invoicing to ticketing to contact management to washing dishes. It's pretty cool. A few days ago I got notice that they're laying me off due to slow sales in the dev. dept. They can't afford to keep me on doing only internal projects. They have another developer who can handle the few projects that do come in.

So.. I put all my sweat into this big app... which went live only recently... and I won't get to see it in action: how it performs... if everyone likes it... etc. All the work... and no feedback positive or otherwise.

This really sucks.

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Ps.. I'm not really a newbie. Just forgot my username!
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Re: You know what really sucks...?

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eeve wrote:I got hired at a new company about 4 months ago when their previous lead programmer left. I've spent the last 4 mo. working furiously on a large internal project that will do everything from invoicing to ticketing to contact management to washing dishes. It's pretty cool. A few days ago I got notice that they're laying me off due to slow sales in the dev. dept. They can't afford to keep me on doing only internal projects. They have another developer who can handle the few projects that do come in.

So.. I put all my sweat into this big app... which went live only recently... and I won't get to see it in action: how it performs... if everyone likes it... etc. All the work... and no feedback positive or otherwise.

This really sucks.

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Ps.. I'm not really a newbie. Just forgot my username!
Thats horrible, half of the 'fun' of programming is the completion, the thrill, the feedback.

Hope you find something a little more permanent... or at least able to see things through.
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They can't afford not to keep you on staff when the whole thing breaks 1 week after you leave :twisted:
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
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pickle wrote:They can't afford not to keep you on staff when the whole thing breaks 1 week after you leave :twisted:
this is true....not to say that your programming isn't good and it will fail, but inevitabely there will be problems and no one can support software better than its creator.

sorry that happend to you, bum deal...
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Post by pickle »

What I meant was, sabotage it so it breaks in a week - not that your code sucks. Guess my devilish subtlety was too subtle to be funny :)
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pickle wrote:What I meant was, sabotage it so it breaks in a week - not that your code sucks. Guess my devilish subtlety was too subtle to be funny :)
it went right over my head, but I'm not a good stick with which to measure...guess I should've noticed the little devil guy :lol:

/needstowatchmoreSeinfeldtounderstandhumoragain 8O
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that sucks man
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pickle wrote:What I meant was, sabotage it so it breaks in a week - not that your code sucks. Guess my devilish subtlety was too subtle to be funny :)
that would be awesome to do, just throw in

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if ($current_date*$one_week > $your_layoff_date)
{
    trigger_error("Extream Code Error! Why did you fire your best programmer you fools!?!?", E_USER_ERROR);
    die();
}
throw that in randomly and change all the variable names so they would have to go through and look at every line of code instead of just doing the find replace. that would be so awesome
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Post by malcolmboston »

ah man, thats lame, really feel for you.

im currently building a huge site that you will all know of soon as theres a massive £3m marketing campaign coming in the near future, im lead programmer and if i got fired because the project is nearly done i wouldnt be responsible for my actions.....

the way i look at it, they see "ah, hes done our multi-million pound web-site, we dont need him anymore, lets save a little money and lay him off"

if it ever happens to me, there'll be plenty of errors coming up on the site and seeing as im head-coder and by far the most skilled with PHP there, they'd have to get in a 3rd pasrty to sort it out :lol:

So if you ever seen on the news "XXXXXX site goes down!!!" (sorry, cant mention it when in development stage, thats a sackable offence in itself) then you know i got laid off :wink:
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