Post #199,446
3/18/05 5:18:35 PM
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iwethey.employed--
Lost my gig the other day. Seems my "management style is incompatible with that of the company". Which, I suppose, means I pissed off a sacred cow somewhere, that I didn't even know about.
Company had a goal to move its firmware to a platform-independent state, surrounding the core functionality with interfaces and a hardware abstraction layer so that the core could be moved around to different platforms. At the same time, they also want to internationalize its firmware. I was the project manager for both. "Change" (as in changing how things were done, as well as what was being done) was supposed to be the buzzword.
Trouble was, that the amount of change needed to reach to goals was a bit more that some people in the organization were comfortable with. My charter was to break through that resistance. However, on my exit "interview", I was chastized for having a "confrontational" style that upper management was uncomfortable with.
Institutional inertia...ain't it grand?
Well, learned a lot about myself and (relearned) a lot about the Corporate Beast. I'm thinking that, after 30 years of engineering, I've had about enough, and will start looking elsewhere for income. (Alas...I'm too old for prostitution....)
jb4
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Post #199,447
3/18/05 5:21:10 PM
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Bummer.
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Post #199,448
3/18/05 5:23:36 PM
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:-( Hang in there.
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Post #199,451
3/18/05 5:48:54 PM
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Sorry to hear that :-(
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Post #199,452
3/18/05 6:04:07 PM
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Mail me
iwethey at mikevitale spot com
Might be able to scrape something together for you in a couple different places, depending on what you're lookin' for...
-YendorMike
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Post #199,927
3/22/05 11:55:49 AM
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Sent...
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #199,455
3/18/05 6:08:56 PM
8/21/07 12:45:45 PM
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We're hiring tech mgrs
tobl at bigbrazilianriver dot com
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Post #199,781
3/21/05 2:59:01 PM
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Re: We're hiring tech mgrs
I assume "tobl" is a placeholder for your full name?
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #199,782
3/21/05 3:00:28 PM
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TOdd BLanchard
Disk space is at a premium at his place, apparently.
That, or they're really lazy typists.
Peter
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Post #199,783
3/21/05 3:04:55 PM
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No Problem, Mate
Although I find it interesting that a place as big as his can differentiate the entire e-mail manifest with just the first two letters of first and last name. Hence, my query....
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #199,784
3/21/05 3:08:13 PM
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Who said anything about 2?
Might just be "enough to uniquely distinguish, and no more".
Peter
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Post #199,791
3/21/05 3:23:46 PM
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Pity poor Toomey Blair, since she get 'toobl' next...
or 'toblai', which is very similar to "to blaive".
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #199,889
3/21/05 11:09:44 PM
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Hex wrote: +++ Whoops! Here Comes the Cheese!
+++ MELON MELON MELON +++
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Post #200,025
3/22/05 9:36:02 PM
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Nope, its my login
There's an "onboarding" system that managers fill out for new hires - it presents you with half a dozen candidate logins based on your first and last name that are guaranteed to be unique. I have no idea what the algorithm is.
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"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #199,928
3/22/05 11:56:15 AM
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Sent...
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #199,465
3/18/05 7:36:01 PM
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Sorry to hear of it, Jay!
At least the reason wasn't that you weren't "pro-active".
Good luck with hunt for ther next gig!
Alex
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
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Post #199,484
3/18/05 11:48:20 PM
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you didnt use the polaroids? good luck :(
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Post #199,492
3/19/05 12:36:23 AM
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good luck with finding your next job
sign I have on the side of my fridge:
We can't direct the winds
but we can adjust our sails.
hope that helps.
Have fun,
Carl Forde
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Post #199,499
3/19/05 5:50:28 AM
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Condolences -
I happened to just read [link|http://crm-daily.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_title=Selling-Diversity-for-Sarbanes-Oxley-Survival&story_id=31440#story-start| this] a bit earlier; added it to the YPB file (You Poor Bastards).
A splendid example of how much a bozo must be babied, when his aim is Not to Know WTF is happening. It seems the denial is not merely large amidst the suits; apparently it is now Universal, about as predictable as golf and Armanis.
I don't like even to think about all the folks here.. within That common denominator. This small slice doesn't represent all Murican bizness, but the daily news suggests a disgusting sameness in the overall ignorance and ovine gutlessness; it appears to me that in attitudes re IT -- that phenom is most "at odds".
Those who haven't the foggiest how IT works - surely fear most, the ones who easily see through the dissembling and outright BS via which upper echelons infotain each other in perpetual pointless meetings (??)
Luck in grabbing some transitional gig, then. It is a sorry time when the only 'talent' rewarded highly is the ability to generate new obfuscations, useful mainly to conserve the incompetent Class. A little while longer.
As Shrub-I loved to say, This will not stand!
House of cards?
Ashton
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Post #199,529
3/19/05 1:12:23 PM
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Sorry to hear that. Maybe not too old in FL?
</feeble attempt to make you feel better>
bcnu,
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Eine Leute. Eine Welt. Ein F\ufffdhrer.
God Bless America.
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Post #199,536
3/19/05 2:23:07 PM
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Sorry to hear that.
Company had a goal to move its firmware to a platform-independent state, surrounding the core functionality with interfaces and a hardware abstraction layer so that the core could be moved around to different platforms. At the same time, they also want to internationalize its firmware. I was the project manager for both. "Change" (as in changing how things were done, as well as what was being done) was supposed to be the buzzword.
Trouble was, that the amount of change needed to reach to goals was a bit more that some people in the organization were comfortable with. My charter was to break through that resistance. However, on my exit "interview", I was chastized for having a "confrontational" style that upper management was uncomfortable with. Sounds like another variation of the "fix the problem without changing anything" game. Jay
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Post #199,584
3/20/05 6:32:42 AM
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Gaah. Fired for doing what was asked.
Sorry to hear it.
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Post #199,823
3/21/05 4:54:20 PM
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That sucks. :P
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Post #200,137
3/23/05 1:58:48 PM
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I'm sorry JB
I hope you find something else soon.
Luck!
Brenda
"The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself." -- Hitopadesa 600?-1100? AD, Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantr
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