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If I'm imagining your experience correctly this exemplifies part of why we need to open up our culture. Also, I'm pretty sure I've been in that gig and it bites

If I'm imagining your experience correctly this exemplifies part of why we need to open up our culture. Also, I'm pretty sure I've been in that gig and it bites. I suspect you dodged a bullet even if you got grazed.

pdimitar 6y ago
Well, it would be very unethical and highly illegal for me to resort to name-calling (but we can probably chat about it in private) but in short the team was a bunch of pretty hardcore guys who are very good at what they are doing but they were a part of a smaller company that got swallowed by the bigger company that hired me. My general impression after I was sacked was that the team (and the smaller company) were resisting to get their culture changed with all their might (example: sitting in a voice chat room for the entire day, seriously, we work remotely and somewhat asynchronously nowadays, so why?). But I didn't give it much thought because in the end it didn't matter: they made up their minds without discussing with me, and even if I re-applied it would not get me anywhere. What really got to me however was that I was fired shortly after I finally took the company's mission and challenges to heart and started working VERY hard. Just 2-3 mere weeks before I got fired. To be let go almost exactly after you muscled through a mountain of obstacles and started loving the job and the people... that definitely did hit a vulnerable spot inside of me, I admit. > Also, I'm pretty sure I've been in that gig and it bites. I suspect you dodged a bullet even if you got grazed. Long-term I am sure I'll think the same but in the meantime my income took a hit. Sigh.
- swader999 6y ago
  Has to be somewhat satisfying to know you could take it on though. It is so hard working remotely.
  - pdimitar 6y ago
    Thank you for the kind words, they do mean a lot. (Still have some insecurity about losing that job, can't deny.) As outlined in more detail in another sibling comment, I had a lot on my plate in my personal life during the gig and I couldn't pull through in time (in their eyes at least). I am glad and proud that I managed to overcome literal dozens of obstacles -- most of which with tech that's extremely hard to master, with Kubernetes at the top spot -- but I still wish I could work with them again. But with some culture modifications. Which, I realize, won't ever happen. Plus most companies and teams never change their culture.

pdimitar 6y ago

Well, it would be very unethical and highly illegal for me to resort to name-calling (but we can probably chat about it in private) but in short the team was a bunch of pretty hardcore guys who are very good at what they are doing but they were a part of a smaller company that got swallowed by the bigger company that hired me. My general impression after I was sacked was that the team (and the smaller company) were resisting to get their culture changed with all their might (example: sitting in a voice chat room for the entire day, seriously, we work remotely and somewhat asynchronously nowadays, so why?). But I didn't give it much thought because in the end it didn't matter: they made up their minds without discussing with me, and even if I re-applied it would not get me anywhere. What really got to me however was that I was fired shortly after I finally took the company's mission and challenges to heart and started working VERY hard. Just 2-3 mere weeks before I got fired. To be let go almost exactly after you muscled through a mountain of obstacles and started loving the job and the people... that definitely did hit a vulnerable spot inside of me, I admit. > Also, I'm pretty sure I've been in that gig and it bites. I suspect you dodged a bullet even if you got grazed. Long-term I am sure I'll think the same but in the meantime my income took a hit. Sigh.

swader999 6y ago
Has to be somewhat satisfying to know you could take it on though. It is so hard working remotely.
- pdimitar 6y ago
  Thank you for the kind words, they do mean a lot. (Still have some insecurity about losing that job, can't deny.) As outlined in more detail in another sibling comment, I had a lot on my plate in my personal life during the gig and I couldn't pull through in time (in their eyes at least). I am glad and proud that I managed to overcome literal dozens of obstacles -- most of which with tech that's extremely hard to master, with Kubernetes at the top spot -- but I still wish I could work with them again. But with some culture modifications. Which, I realize, won't ever happen. Plus most companies and teams never change their culture.