Laying off Developers

Posted by mkhairul - March 28, 2008 at 04:03:38 am -

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There’s a reddit entry about a post on craigslist about developers
who were laid off, their employer is kind enough to find them a job (my
first employer also offered to find me a job but I declined, I don’t
want to be in-debt with him). What caught my interest is the
description of the first developer. I don’t know whether this is authentic or just a stunt from a job agency.

Most of his work has been PHP and MySQL, though he has done a lot with
Perl. He is strongly drawn to big challenges and tough assignments, and
attacks them with tenacity. Don’t ask him to build you a 5 page
website. He’ll fall asleep. Hire him to build you a gigantic web application that supports tens of thousands of customers.

Yeah, sounds like me (I used to maintain a big e-HR application
using Perl) and have a couple of times fall asleep from doing
guidelines and filling up dummy data in the database. Sometimes I ward
off my sleepiness by reading interesting articles which results in work
delayed but then again, I was the only developer. So, not much stuffs
going around for me to talk to and about my new cool code snippets,
functions, libraries and shit.

"Hey look! I’ve managed to
automate this thing so that it can automatically generate it on the fly
when you request it, you can use it by …!" ,

"Is it ready yet?"

"No, but it can save us some… "

"Then get to it!" 

 ":("

Hopefully on my new job, there’ll be some enthusiastic developers, I know there is, I don’t know about the rest, but Ikhwan is one of them. Looking forward to work with him.

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  1. Looking forward for you join aboard too dude :)

    Some task already waiting for you actually, hope you won’t fall asleep doing web services :P

    Comment by Ikhwan — March 28, 2008 #

  2. I used to work there. No… really. I did. And I know what you mean. Boy, the two of us can talk so much about what we’ve gone through.

    Comment by Kidino — April 2, 2008 #

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