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I'm in the process of cleaning up my resume to send out today. * My responsibilities as a programmer have constantly been increasing. Every year I become the

by parfe 16y ago

I'm in the process of cleaning up my resume to send out today. * My responsibilities as a programmer have constantly been increasing. Every year I become the maintainer of more projects as others quit. * We fired a sys admin and now I'm outright doing his job in addition to my own. Management was slow to get a job posting up and has not brought people in to interview. I feel like my breadth of abilities are being abused to save money. At this point I can't be a good programmer and a good sys admin. * I asked to telecommute one day a week and the response was actually laughter. After speaking to someone high up the policy was changed and now I need to "Justify why it would be good for the department." Which is literally impossible. There is a key set of words I need to discover that would actually activate the policy, like it's a game or something. Now I'm questing for a new employer. * I'm working with consultants from a Big Name Firm currently modernizing our X. These consultants send conflicting information and documents which aren't even internally consistent and then bill us while I work with them to clean up their bullshit. These people are earning 5x my pay and can't do their job. Then I was asked to work while I was on vacation this week to check up on the consultants progress. And sure enough they fucked up. * Salaries are frozen even though we are profitable. * A majority of my coworkers have no will to learn. I can dictate pseudo code to them to help with an issue and they will actually start typing the pseudo code into the editor and then be confused when it doesn't work. And a week later they will have a very similar issue with no ability to make the mental connection to the work done a week earlier. Whew, nice to actually type all that out.

edw519 16y ago
"Justify why it would be good for the department." Which is literally impossible. There is a key set of words I need to discover that would actually activate the policy, like it's a game or something. Now I'm questing for a new employer. You just answered your own question: key set of words = "Now I'm questing for a new employer." better key set of words = "I quit."
- parfe 16y ago
  Oh I was well aware what I should say once my "not having to drive is akin to a small raise" was shot down as "being good for you, not for the department" I don't want to bluff though, so at this point I'm just moving on. If I'm required to throw a tantrum and threaten to quit to get what I want I'm happy to find work elsewhere. Oh, and I just remembered. The only training we were ever offered came in an excel spreadsheet with over 1000 courses offered by some training firm. We were told to email back "Three of four choices" and if there was enough interest in one of the courses it would be paid for. There was no possible way for any single course to be chosen definitively by the staff with so many choices. But at least management got to feel good about "offering training, but there wasn't enough interest."
pchristensen 16y ago
Send me your resume and portfolio. I'm recruiting for my company outside of HR because we need more awesome people with initiative. The month since I started at Groupon has been the best month of my career. Mtn View or Chicago, your pick.
- parfe 16y ago
  I was only ranting in what I thought was an appropriate thread, but thank you very much for replying. I appreciate the good will on HN. Keep in mind, I may just be declaring myself Parfe, King of Idiots but when I'm happy with my resume I'll definitely be in touch.
  - prpon 16y ago
    There will always be things you want to tweak in your resume to showcase your skills in the best possible light. I would say, get any resume with all your skills in it and float it around....starting with Groupon. Goodluck.
  - pchristensen 16y ago
    Acknowledging that you're an idiot is the first step :) It means that whether you're good or not, you know enough to know that you can never stop working at it, and that's a good trait to have. If you like, I can review your resume privately and let you know an idea of your chances, as well as make any recommendations to help make yourself more attractive to good tech employers.
    - parfe 16y ago
      Thank you.

by parfe 16y ago

edw519 16y ago

"Justify why it would be good for the department." Which is literally impossible. There is a key set of words I need to discover that would actually activate the policy, like it's a game or something. Now I'm questing for a new employer. You just answered your own question: key set of words = "Now I'm questing for a new employer." better key set of words = "I quit."

parfe 16y ago
Oh I was well aware what I should say once my "not having to drive is akin to a small raise" was shot down as "being good for you, not for the department" I don't want to bluff though, so at this point I'm just moving on. If I'm required to throw a tantrum and threaten to quit to get what I want I'm happy to find work elsewhere. Oh, and I just remembered. The only training we were ever offered came in an excel spreadsheet with over 1000 courses offered by some training firm. We were told to email back "Three of four choices" and if there was enough interest in one of the courses it would be paid for. There was no possible way for any single course to be chosen definitively by the staff with so many choices. But at least management got to feel good about "offering training, but there wasn't enough interest."

pchristensen 16y ago

Send me your resume and portfolio. I'm recruiting for my company outside of HR because we need more awesome people with initiative. The month since I started at Groupon has been the best month of my career. Mtn View or Chicago, your pick.

parfe 16y ago
I was only ranting in what I thought was an appropriate thread, but thank you very much for replying. I appreciate the good will on HN. Keep in mind, I may just be declaring myself Parfe, King of Idiots but when I'm happy with my resume I'll definitely be in touch.
- prpon 16y ago
  There will always be things you want to tweak in your resume to showcase your skills in the best possible light. I would say, get any resume with all your skills in it and float it around....starting with Groupon. Goodluck.
- pchristensen 16y ago
  Acknowledging that you're an idiot is the first step :) It means that whether you're good or not, you know enough to know that you can never stop working at it, and that's a good trait to have. If you like, I can review your resume privately and let you know an idea of your chances, as well as make any recommendations to help make yourself more attractive to good tech employers.
  - parfe 16y ago
    Thank you.