Personally I'd wait the 6 weeks. If your company goes public that extra 20% vested could be a big difference. It sounds like you paid your dues at the current job and deserve it. My biggest regret about leaving a company in the late 90's was not waiting until I was fully vested. I probably could have retired on the stock options in the next 5 years.
If you new company is really serious ask them if they can wait the 6 weeks. Maybe offer to take on some stuff like reading documentation, company policies, reviewing application architecture, or whatever, to let them know that if they wait the 6 weeks you can hit the ground running when you get there. Hope this helps, Duane -----Original Message----- From: ************* [mailto:***********] Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 6:43 PM To: CF-Community Subject: need some advice 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. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:260671 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
