true, once I became skilled, the law firm I worked for didn't want me anymore and did what they could to try and force me to quit. They also said that programmers are a dime a dozen because so many are out of work, and they could easily replace me. Just that my replacement wouldn't have the same skill-set that I have. Programs that took me a few months to develop, are being re-written for DotNet and it has taken them over a year now with no results. If they had a problem with me taking months to develop a large complex program, how can they tolerate the people they hired to replace me taking over a year to convert them? I gave them full documentation, every program was well commented, and I used their naming convention on variables. It shouldn't take them a year to convert over to DotNet. Unless DotNet programming is a lot harder than I think it is? My source is a coworker I used to work with who told me what was going on there.

Is this inability to convert a lack of skill? Or is it something else? I think that if I had DotNet training and I was given a year to convert those apps that I would be able to do it, given my past skills. I was dinged in a performance review for taking months to get a program done instead of weeks, how are they keeping these people who are taking over a year on a single program? It just goes to show how unfair they've been, favoritism apparently still exists there.

But management doesn't understand or respect skill, the only thing they apparently understand are those brownnosers who kiss up and work extra hours for no extra pay to cover up their mistakes and inability to get things done on time. I could have been one of the brownnosers, but I had too much self-respect and dignity for that. Plus I had to keep time for my family.