oh, forgot to mention that they're moving 15 minutes further away from my home in the Fall of this year.
On Jun 12, 2013, at 11:22 AM, LRS Scout <[email protected]> wrote: > > Tell them. Ask them to make changes. If they refuse bounce. > On Jun 12, 2013 11:16 AM, "zaphod" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I've been working at the same company for 10+ years. Pretty comfortable, >> lots of freedom to choose my own tech stack and tools. Very good >> compensation. The only beating is the commute. It's over an hour each way >> and of course, into the sun both directions ;) When I started, the drive >> took under an hour, but as the population has grown, so has traffic. >> >> A few months ago I had a big project that required some overtime. My >> manager thought the best way to get that was to use the commute time for >> work so I was allowed to work from home 2~3 days a week. That lasted for >> about 5 weeks until the project was finished and I was told that continuous >> work from home was not in the company culture. I loved working from home >> and it seemed like I got more down and actually worked longer days. >> >> About the same time, I was contacted by another company that's about 20 >> minutes away from my home -- and west of me ;) Anyway, I've met with them >> a few times and they seem interested in getting me on their team. It's a >> completely different industry and way different culture. Like the jeans & >> t-shirts, foosball table, and beer refrigerator type. Very enticing. >> >> Our annual reviews are going to start in a week or so and I'm mulling over >> what I should tell them, if anything. I'm the only one here that knows how >> to administer the linux vm's. I'm the only web guy. I wear many hats from >> helping the network admin figure out how to get our AD server back to >> recognizing the forest to debugging the VB guys sequel queries to providing >> over the phone or webex customer support for our sites. It's going to take >> a jack-of-all-trades to replace me or even multiple people. >> >> I've always wanted to work on a team, but for the last 15 years of coding, >> I've been the lone ranger aside from a temp employee who helped catch me up >> on some projects. >> >> It's weird. I feel guilt for thinking about leaving my company. I don't >> know anybody offhand to recommend to them either. >> >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:364481 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
