Wednesday, April 26, 2006



From: Garrick {Me@*******.com}

To: ********* {MyManager@*******.com}
Date: Apr 26, 2006 10:28 AM
Subject: The long answer
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Ok. First of all, I like it here.

I enjoy the people who share this 20ft by 20ft room quite a lot.

(Sales person's name deleted to comply with non-disclosure agreement) is a total bastard and I completely can’t stand him.

(Upper management person's name deleted to comply with non-disclosure agreement) totally lied to me coming in to this and every day I find myself more and more angry about it for some reason I can’t quantify.

What I can quantify is that I’m way over paid for what I do. As much as some customers like me, the fact that (Guy at company name deleted to comply with non-disclosure agreement) thinks I’m a moron is something that seems to carry weight around here, even though I continued to work on their broken crap for months even after he and (Sales person's name deleted to comply with non-disclosure agreement) reached a consensus about my uselessness.

Personally, that whole situation has genuinely impacted my self-esteem. At the risk of sounding like a bitch, I doubt my own abilities and am developing a seriously paranoid streak.

OpenView is fine, but if I were (Employer's name deleted to comply with non-disclosure agreement) there is no way I’d pay my salary for me to be trained on it. I do not currently see a future for myself here, but I’m trying to not take it personally.

I will continue to do whatever is required to keep things running and, if possible, improve them.

That said, I filled out a request for PTO this morning but hadn’t had a chance to give it to you with the (Company name deleted to comply with non-disclosure agreement) issue and all. Also I’m looking into fixes for (Company name deleted to comply with non-disclosure agreement) printing, though that doesn’t look so good. There is only so much you can do with Metaframe 1.8.

Thanks,

Garrick

2 comments:

Pamela Moore said...

Ballsy.

You've got balls.

I like balls.

I like your balls.

Darrell Davis said...

If everyone would be so kind as to look behind them. See that over there? it's the line that separates accommodating and insubordination. If we all wait right here we should see a geek cross it any moment.