On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Mr. X wrote: > or at least some different points of view. > > I have a dilemma that I thought you'd all help me resolve. I've been at my > current job for almost 5 years now. Unfortunately over the last 6 months or > so this job has become extremely frustrating, and has become what I think as > too much like work. Our group has shed developers to such an extent that I'm > the last developer of what was 4 java and 2 CF coders. Needless to say I've > been expecting to take up the slack. In that 6 months I've seen a set of what > I think of as very bad decisions be made, that I think will harm the company. > Promises were made and never followed through. After the others have left > I've been expected to pick up the slack, without really having the training > or the skill set required. They finally sent me for some training a month ago. > > Last week the last straw happened. The project that I had shepherded from the > beginning and had worked on for the last 8 months was taken away from me and > given to an outside company. Quite frankly from the work I've seen so far, > these people are simply incompetent. The best I can see is that they'll ruin > the app and blame its failure on me. > > Anyhow I just got a job offer that is very attractive, it means making quite > a lot more money a year, with the possibility of a telecommute after 6 > months. The biggest problem is that it will involve a commute into the DC > area. > > So the question is do I jump ship or wait to see if things improve, or at the > very least until I fully vest. Currently I'm at about 80%. I have about 6 > weeks left before I fully vest. I don't think that this new job will wait > that long. > > So any suggestions will be appreciated. Also just in case someone from work > may read this please obscure my email in your responses, I really don't want > to have to deal with any potential retaliation from the pointy haired bosses.
Bearing in mind that over the past 3 years, i've moved my family from AZ to FL to Southern CA to the Bay Area in search of the right job... I'd jump ship. Really for me, it's all about enjoying the job. You're not enjoying the job now, and unless you've not gone into enough detail, I don't see any indication that things might get better. What makes you think it might? You're unhappy. Others have been unhappy enough that they left. That's writing on the wall. The other job could be better. You know it offers more $ (that's nice too). Depending on how much you stand to get by waiting to be fully vested, you might want to try and negotiate with the new company to see if they'd wait. My current company hired me... then we ran into a snag that would have cost me a few thousand dollars... the company told me to wait. They waited about 4 months for me to deal with what needed to be dealt with (one of many signs that I made the right choice). Also consider if you walked away now, how long would it take for you to recuperate what you'd lose by not waiting 6 weeks, given the increase in salary? Really tho, in my mind the rest of it is almost irrelevant. You gotta be happy doing what you're doing. You owe it to yourself, and potentially to your employer. Based on what you wrote, it really doesn't sound like things are going to improve. It sounds like they've been consistently and steadily heading in the opposite direction. /$0.02 -- A byte walks into a bar and orders a pint. Bartender asks him "What's wrong?" Byte says "Parity error." Bartender nods and says "Yeah, I thought you looked a bit off." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:260668 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
