What truly sucks

Post #314,772 by lincoln 9/29/09 11:57:07 AM Reply	What truly sucks is that I was brought in to convert classic ASP web pages and their supporting legacy VBScript code into .NET and C#. 3 weeks after being hired last summer they fired the director who hired me. 2 months later I was assigned to a manager out of the Toronto office, a team that was maintaining old code - the stuff that WASN'T going to be converted. All attempts to prove some of this stuff should have been kept and converted failed, as did all attempts to get onto a team working with more marketable IT skills. Numerous recruiters that I've talked to this year have told me how screwed I was because of my age and lack of "being current"; they all sympathized that I was being held responsible for the decisions of previous employers not being "current" in languages and software packages. Unfortunately, there's very little I can do about it - learning something on your own is nice, but ask anyone who has been to an interview in the past several years how much weight being self-taught is compared to having used a language at a former employer. "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Post #314,774 by boxley 9/29/09 1:47:10 PM Reply	Oh man, hope you can get going again soon
Post #314,780 by lincoln 9/29/09 2:36:23 PM Reply	haven't seen a job ad I can apply for in months; haven't had a recruiter return my phone calls or emails in over 3 months. Don't know how long I'll be able to keep my head above water on unemployment. And of course, to make matters worse, the kids bought a dog last month. So now I have another mouth to feed and its associated doctor bills which aren't covered under COBRA. "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Post #314,807 by jay 9/29/09 11:14:34 PM Reply	Claim it as experience Sorry to hear that, and that it happened in such a miserable way. As for the programming and experience thing, don't specify that you only got 2 months experience before stuck with the legacy crud. Just list the entire time you worked for the company and all the skills you used while you where there. Jay
Post #314,810 by boxley 9/29/09 11:35:12 PM Reply	agreed, they will happily lie to you, return the favor my resume have been assidiously argueing with nother for (how long has it been anyway?) and twiddled in between with work stuff :-)
Post #314,919 by Another Scott 10/1/09 11:41:19 AM Reply	Let's see... It looks like we started using z.iwethey.org on 6/29/2001 - http://web.archive.o...rd/show?boardid=1 Before that, we were on EZBoard for a while - http://web.archive.o...oard.com/biwethey (it looks like it lived until October 2006??!). Before that, we were on InfoWorld Electric. The Internet Archive has a page from December 1996, but I can't seem to find an actual forum archive - http://web.archive.o...ww.infoworld.com/ I read the InfoWorld forums regularly, but only rarely posted shortly before it went kerplunk. So, it's been a long while. :-) Cheers, Scott.

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