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Not technically "firing" I suppose but all of the dev org in Atlanta and SF, including myself, were laid off at athenahealth last week. Something like 120 peopl
by frogstomp19 10y ago
Not technically "firing" I suppose but all of the dev org in Atlanta and SF, including myself, were laid off at athenahealth last week. Something like 120 people. Sucks.
- planteen 10y agoSorry to hear that. :(
- tbrooks 10y agoWhat about the Austin office?
- dabernathy89 10y agoI've been seeing job listings for the Austin office repeatedly for the last few weeks, so it'd surprise me if they were cutting staff there.
- frogstomp19 10y agoStill alive! They consolidated to Watertown (Boston), Austin, and India.
- withdavidli 10y agoThe entire org?? Why? I recruited for a company that started a few innovation centers around the country. Part me now wonders why they needed all those devs. This was around 3 new centers that hired about 70-100+ each in mostly non tech hubs. The way tech advanced in the last 3 years I'm sure most of their work is or fastly becoming obselete.
- debacle 10y agoProbably using a new platform and/or being bought.
- kristianp 10y agoWhat's the difference between being fired and laid off?
- Dobbs 10y agoBeing fired generally means you did something wrong wrong. Laid off means the company is getting rid of people to reduce costs or due to removing the position, for example due to change of strategy. One generally implies personal fault, the other implies side-effect of business.
- rezashirazian 10y agoYou are laid off when the company is downsizing, has no need for your services or cannot pay your wages. You get fired when you fail to perform adequately at your job.
- joatmon-snoo 10y agoTechnically none, but "fired" tends to refer specifically to when there was some specific employee conduct, e.g. failure to fulfill responsibilities, which forced the company to let the employee go. "Laid off" is a broader term that doesn't carry the same negative connotation and is more appropriate when, say, a company is strapped for cash and lets go of someone to free up money in the budget.
- tehwalrus 10y agoIn the UK, "getting fired" or "getting the sack" means you were incompetent (or commited misconduct) and are sent home. For incompentance, they can only do this after a "performance review" (they have to give you 3 months to improve, I think). "Laid off" is called being "made redundant". The company can do this much more easily to a bunch of people, but it generally has to pay them ~6 months salary and can't hire new people at the same time, for the same job(s). Any employer being more aggressive than this will probably be taken to an employment tribunal. In the States, I've heard you guys use the terms synonymously, but it always sounded a little weird. Your employment law is awful for employees though, by comparison.
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- nikhil417 10y agoWow. I interned at athenahealth Summer 2015 in SF. Hope things work out for you. Did you work on Epocrates?
- frogstomp19 10y agoI was working on pop health, which is based out of Austin, but I'm in Atlanta. Job market is pretty good though and they're still employing the Atlanta people through December 30th, so I should be good. I'll just likely have to walk from the (pretty meh) severance... Nobody is hiring in late December.
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- daveloyall 10y agoDo you know anybody who might be interested in wiring Apache Camel up to be a Rhapsody replacement? The NEDSS Base System has an expensive dependency on Rhapsody, but all it does is grab incoming HL7, do some transformations, and dump the result into a NBS table. (For the uninitiated: State Health Departments are generally the users of NEDSS Base System... Rhapsody is a graphical ETL tool.)
- karmajunkie 10y agoJust out of curiosity, any reason you're using Camel for that instead of Mirth? I've been out of the healthcare sector for a few years but at one time was doing essentially that same thing to build out the state biosurveillance network in TX. Mirth was a great fit for it at the time, I'd imagine it still is.
- daveloyall 10y agoI haven't started yet. Just putting feelers out. I haven't evaluated Mirth. It seems like a consumer oriented product. The marketing around it is so deep that I can't find a list of it what it's not good at... Camel appears to be basically a library. As a programmer, I find that appealing.
- karmajunkie 10y agoI'd take a closer look at mirth. It's highly capable, and I never had any major issues with it. You have a number of options for integrating with it, and I imagine those have expanded since last I looked at it. Email is in my profile, feel free to drop me a line, I kind of miss my public health work :)
- pjungwir 10y agoI could do this. I'm not from Atlanta, but two other developers and myself have a small company, Columbia Ops, that has done a lot of HL7 work. Usually we use Mirth, but we could do it in Camel instead if you prefer something lighter. My email is in my profile.
- farmdawgnation 10y agoWhoa what?! They were recruiting me pretty hard at one point. Feeling glad that I didn't bite. :/ Sorry to hear that.