NOthing to do with stock. I meant fully vested in my 401K.
>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 > > > >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:260675 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
