{"id":276,"date":"2009-01-02T09:44:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T16:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/?p=276"},"modified":"2009-01-02T09:44:19","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T16:44:19","slug":"job-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/02\/job-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyone who has read this blog for any length of time knows I don’t usually talk about work except to share things that I have learned or discovered while doing said work. This post, however, is a break from that tradition, as I am no longer employed. I was laid off in the latest round of RIF (reduction in force, a more polite way of saying downsized). I am back in the market and finding that there are a few things that make it tricky. As I pointed out in this post<\/a> none of the code I have worked on recently belongs to me.<\/p>\n

Which means that for those who desire code samples I need to do one of three things: either hand over old or unfinished code, write something entirely new, or get permission from my previous employer to share samples of some of the work where I was the only (or at least principal) developer. While the first is not appealing and the second will be ok once I have to time actually build something new or finish something I started back when, the third would be the simplest, at least if I felt that I would get the ok. But seeing how the last day went, I am not so sure. I walked some of the remaining developers through the code and documentation for a project I had headed up, and was on hand to put out fires. I was expecting to be answering questions right up to 5:00 PM. But at 3:30 PM my email account was disabled and shortly after that my Jabber account. While that was not unexpected, the lack of a final message from any of my current bosses was. No thanks, no sorry about the lay off, no good luck, nothing. I did get the farewells, sorry and thanks for everything you’ve done (as well a written LinkedIn<\/a> reccomendation) from my former boss last week, and I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

I don’t know, maybe I am just being overly sensitive. Or maybe I just expect too much from people. But would it really have been that hard to send an email to all the departing employees? Meh. I’ll get over it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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