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Hi All,
Bit of spleen venting here! I think I am going to get made redundant tomorrow... I think it's a case of my skill set not being in demand for the future of the firm. I am also pretty sure that my ability to conger up the test rig that was wanted in no time flat is part of it. I don't really think staying here much longer is on the cards either. I like parts of my Job just not all of it (common) but I have been thinking this for sometime. The last mess I was (am still partly) involved in has taught me the value emails so when you do 'thing' and 'thing' gets complained about ('I told you to do it differently to that!', 'No, you said do it like I have done it here, here is the email', retreat red faced!). What to do...
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Are you going to be changing your name to glennPattonSignsOn now?
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... or just theRockAndRollYears
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Quite possibly! 
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Start counting
1, 2, buckle my shoe.
7, 5, I can't count.
9, 4, what do you expect after a bottle of gin?
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glennPattonWork wrote: What to do...
What everyone else does: get a lawyer and sue them for wrongful termination. 
Marc
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Mmmm, I can't see that happening really...
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Wrong side of the Atlantic.
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P0mpey3 wrote: Wrong side of the Atlantic.
I know, I was thinking that. Still, you never know what civil war relics might be lingering around here!
Marc
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Take the redundancy money and start looking for a new job.
Or, come back as a consultant for twice the money!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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What I'm hoping for is the redundancy, I'm looking for a new job now! 
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Sounds like a good time to move on from fattening some corporate fat cat's wallet.
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harold aptroot wrote: fattening some corporate fat cat's wallet
Not necessarily a bad thing, as I think that would describe most of us, but we also earn a (hopefully) decent wage, and enjoy more of our tasks than not.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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The thing is the company isn't huge so there is no corporate fat cat. The only thing that gives me solace is the economy is on the up! so maybe this is a blessing...(really?, I'm a glass is half empty type!)
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Sometimes it's mission impossible to please people. All you have to do is give it your all, so you can always say with good conscious that you did your best.
Good luck on the job hunt! Every end brings a new beginning. 
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Good riddance to bad management. I hope you do well at the next stop along the way.
I'm waiting to win a lottery so I can retire, myself. My former boss, the GM, retired last month, and I'm the only one qualified to replace him. In fact, I've been planning to do so for ten years. But the reason I refuse to apply for the position is the same reason he retired - the tribe that owns the company recently appointed our most incompetent, irresponsible and downright dangerous employee to the Board of Directors. Such a conflict of interest is appalling, and entirely inappropriate; I can't blame our GM for leaving, and envy him for being financially able to do so. I can't.
I'd look elsewhere, but in my profession - engineering - age discrimination is alive and well, and completely ignored by the law.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Quote: I'd look elsewhere, but in my profession - engineering - age discrimination is alive and well, and completely ignored by the law.
Oh nice to know it isn't only this side O' the pond! 
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glennPattonWork wrote: The last mess I was (am still partly) involved in has taught me the value emails so when you do 'thing' and 'thing' gets complained about ('I told you to do it differently to that!', 'No, you said do it like I have done it here, here is the email',
I am glad you followed the advice people gave you about documenting what was requested, but that doesn't mean they won't blame you for their bad decisions, especially when you are gone; "last out first blamed". BTW you won't be invited to the meeting where it is decided that you are to blame and your services are no longer needed.
Unfortunately, that will be your legacy in repayment for all those long days and weekends you put in whilst your manager was out playing golf. Glen was the one who messed it up! He should have alerted us to any hardware instability, ... (add a litany of other things for which you were responsible)
I hope this is a lesson to you that no job lasts forever so you should not do extraordinary things to make things work unless it is your company and you will reap the rewards if things go well. If there isn't time to do it in a regular work day then the project is understaffed.
I am not saying that an occasional long day or weekend day (notice I didn't say days) may be required, but if it becomes a regular occurrence then get another job. Life is too short to waste it on other peoples problems only to be blamed when you are given a kick out the door.
No one ever on their death bed lamented "I wish I had worked more". Usually they lament that I worked too much at the expense of their personal lives.
Actually, this is one of life's experiences where you can learn a lesson. It could have been worse, you could have slaved away for years working unreasonable hours only to be let go in the end.
Life is short. Do the things that are important to you.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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For example:
If you want to peruse the news in the morning, do you just go to news.google.com (or whatever your favorite website(s) is)?
Do you just go to the Code Project home page and see what's new?
Do you just scroll through social media and forum posts until you find something amusing or interesting to actually read?
In other words, do you use any special software (not that any actually exists, methinks) to do any preprocessing so you don't have to spend all that time bouncing between websites to see if anything is of interest?
Yes, there's feed readers, but how many people actually use them or set up triggers for keywords or, say, a post by your favorite authors?
What I'm getting at is, it seems like we're still in the stone ages when it comes to using computers to filter out the crap and alert us to when something that we have said we're actually interested in occurs. Is that not the case?
So I ask you, how time consuming is your "process" of perusing information on the Internet, that you do every day as part of your routine, and how do you think that could be improved?
Marc
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I (use/used)* to use 'Pulse' on my tablet.
Basically, News.google, TheRegister, Engadget, CodeProject, Facebook, LinkedIn, Mashable.........that's where I live. Haven't really found any other site that has me hooked that I keep going back to it over and over. (Well any I would want to mention here!  )
*wtf, I just confused myself....which is it
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In this context: 'used' 
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That is what I put on my 2nd revision, then it didn't look /read right...... 
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English never does look right. It's a massive kludge!
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Everything I need to know, I get here at CP or in the lounge.
Marc Clifton wrote: it seems like we're still in the stone ages when it comes to using computers to
filter out the crap and alert us to when something that we have said we're
actually interested in occurs.
As with anything created by people, there's going to be a spin, gimmick or some kind of pitch or method to extract something of value from you. That will never, ever change.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Well, I have a couple of papers I read online - one local and one national. I also read the CP news digests and the BBC. Beyond that, I have Flipboard set up just the way I like it to aggregate things for me.
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