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Re: Moving On

Post by ArkieDukie » June 15th, 2012, 8:09 pm

Lavabe wrote:
windsor wrote:CTN Vibes living up to the legend...AGAIN. You guys Rock \m/ \m/ \m/
First off, CONGRATS!! :-BD
Secondly, although the vibes (both human and canine) came through, I believe karma came back for you for all your wise advice on the ArkieDukie job hunt. :ymapplause:
I'll second all of that! :happy-bouncyblue: :happy-bouncyblue: :happy-bouncyblue: ^:)^ ^:)^ ^:)^ ^:)^

Do I sense a revival of the "Take this job and shove it" thread?
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Re: Moving On

Post by DukieInKansas » June 15th, 2012, 10:10 pm

Congratulations, Windsor! The new company will be getting a gem in you!
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Re: Moving On

Post by Very Duke Blue » June 15th, 2012, 10:48 pm

windsor wrote:Phone rang at 11 am. Now let us consider that my soon to be boss is in Atlanta, and HR is in Arizona...so by 8 am HR was calling me, with an offer. With all the right dollars in all the right places.

:happy-bouncyblue: :happy-bouncyblue: :happy-bouncyblue: :happy-bouncyblue: :happy-bouncyblue:

Now, if I can only refrain from telling my current boss that he is a catastrophe that walks like a man before I leave here, all will be well!

CTN Vibes living up to the legend...AGAIN. You guys Rock \m/ \m/ \m/
Congratulations!!! I love good news. :happy-bouncyblue: :happy-bouncyblue:
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Re: Moving On

Post by shereec » June 16th, 2012, 6:55 am

Congratulations! :happy-bouncyblue: :happy-bouncyblue:
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Re: Moving On

Post by lawgrad91 » June 16th, 2012, 8:17 am

Hooray, Windsor! Congratulations! :happy-bouncyblue: :happy-bouncyblue: :happy-bouncyblue: :happy-bouncyblue: :happy-bouncyblue: :duke: :duke:
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Re: Moving On

Post by captmojo » June 16th, 2012, 9:35 am

Great news Windsor! Happy for you. :happy-bouncyblue:


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Re: Moving On

Post by CathyCA » June 16th, 2012, 11:44 am

windsor wrote:Phone rang at 11 am. Now let us consider that my soon to be boss is in Atlanta, and HR is in Arizona...so by 8 am HR was calling me, with an offer. With all the right dollars in all the right places.

:happy-bouncyblue: :happy-bouncyblue: :happy-bouncyblue: :happy-bouncyblue: :happy-bouncyblue:

Now, if I can only refrain from telling my current boss that he is a catastrophe that walks like a man before I leave here, all will be well!

CTN Vibes living up to the legend...AGAIN. You guys Rock \m/ \m/ \m/
Woo-hooooooooooooooooo! So excited for you, Windsor!

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Re: Moving On

Post by TillyGalore » June 16th, 2012, 1:33 pm

Congratulations, Windsor!!

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Re: Moving On

Post by Miles » June 19th, 2012, 9:26 am

Another reason I was able to resign was that my boss has decided to move our iPad development offshore. I think there are some cases where this is a good idea, but this isn't one of them. First, we're not outsourcing the entire project, just prototyping and design. This means that we'll have to pick up the project once it's delivered, and then rely on collaboration and support with a team in India. Hurray for time zone differences between California, North Carolina, and India. Outsourced projects are a real bitch to manager too. I'm already overworked and underpaid, and then he wanted me to add a new development team to manage? Ugh, no thanks. To make it even worse, we know developers, even some of our ex-employees that are native Apple developers, looking for work, familiar with our customers, target market and code base, and live right down the road from the office yet he felt it was better to go offshore.

Well we had a status meeting with the team. Turns out the Indian team has moved the design portion of development offshore to a team in Los Angeles.
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Re: Moving On

Post by windsor » June 19th, 2012, 10:40 am

Miles wrote:Another reason I was able to resign was that my boss has decided to move our iPad development offshore. I think there are some cases where this is a good idea, but this isn't one of them. First, we're not outsourcing the entire project, just prototyping and design. This means that we'll have to pick up the project once it's delivered, and then rely on collaboration and support with a team in India. Hurray for time zone differences between California, North Carolina, and India. Outsourced projects are a real bitch to manager too. I'm already overworked and underpaid, and then he wanted me to add a new development team to manage? Ugh, no thanks. To make it even worse, we know developers, even some of our ex-employees that are native Apple developers, looking for work, familiar with our customers, target market and code base, and live right down the road from the office yet he felt it was better to go offshore.

Well we had a status meeting with the team. Turns out the Indian team has moved the design portion of development offshore to a team in Los Angeles.
:| =)) L-)
oh the joys of offshore! My current company has a small army of Indian nationals working on projects, and code being written in India. They (the company) are just now figuring out that it doesn't work near as well as they thought it would. =)) =)) I too know local qualified good folks looking for jobs - and seeing Bangalor Annex down the hall just fries my cookies.

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Re: Moving On

Post by DevilAlumna » June 20th, 2012, 12:50 am

Miles wrote:Another reason I was able to resign was that my boss has decided to move our iPad development offshore. I think there are some cases where this is a good idea, but this isn't one of them. First, we're not outsourcing the entire project, just prototyping and design. This means that we'll have to pick up the project once it's delivered, and then rely on collaboration and support with a team in India. Hurray for time zone differences between California, North Carolina, and India. Outsourced projects are a real bitch to manager too. I'm already overworked and underpaid, and then he wanted me to add a new development team to manage? Ugh, no thanks. To make it even worse, we know developers, even some of our ex-employees that are native Apple developers, looking for work, familiar with our customers, target market and code base, and live right down the road from the office yet he felt it was better to go offshore.

Well we had a status meeting with the team. Turns out the Indian team has moved the design portion of development offshore to a team in Los Angeles.
:| =)) L-)
Really, offshoring the most critical part of a project - prototyping & design? That seems... backwards.

And working with Indian development centers is awful, no good overlapping time zones. At least in working with Shanghai (my team has a corresponding equal team there,) there's a decent overlap between 4PM and 8PM pacific.
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Re: Moving On

Post by YmoBeThere » June 23rd, 2012, 2:24 pm

Looks like this was a good month to change jobs. I will be doing so also.
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Re: Moving On

Post by ArkieDukie » June 23rd, 2012, 2:48 pm

YmoBeThere wrote:Looks like this was a good month to change jobs. I will be doing so also.
Congrats to you. You mentioned something earlier about wanting to do this, right? What will you be doing?
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Re: Moving On

Post by Ima Facultiwyfe » June 23rd, 2012, 10:16 pm

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Re: Moving On

Post by lawgrad91 » June 25th, 2012, 10:15 am

YmoBeThere wrote:Looks like this was a good month to change jobs. I will be doing so also.
Details, details!

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Re: Moving On

Post by Lavabe » June 25th, 2012, 2:01 pm

YmoBeThere wrote:Looks like this was a good month to change jobs. I will be doing so also.
All okay? Is this a done deal?
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Re: Moving On

Post by CathyCA » June 25th, 2012, 2:06 pm

YmoBeThere wrote:Looks like this was a good month to change jobs. I will be doing so also.
Congratulations!

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Re: Moving On

Post by YmoBeThere » June 25th, 2012, 7:52 pm

Done deal as of today. I will be going from my current employer to an insurance carrier whose primary mission is to serve its members, current and former members of the military. As a former Army officer and 20 year member, it is an incredible honor to be able to help support that mission. This does mean I will have to move... :(

I do like the area where I currently reside considerably, I would prefer to stay here much longer. The only downside to the area is not being able to see all the Duke games on TV.
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Re: Moving On

Post by OZZIE4DUKE » June 25th, 2012, 8:07 pm

Amazing. I have two more friends who today told me/announced they have made major moves employment-wise. One is a high school friend who lives in Charlotte. One isn't... :D
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Re: Moving On

Post by ArkieDukie » June 25th, 2012, 8:20 pm

YmoBeThere wrote:Done deal as of today. I will be going from my current employer to an insurance carrier whose primary mission is to serve its members, current and former members of the military. As a former Army officer and 20 year member, it is an incredible honor to be able to help support that mission. This does mean I will have to move... :(

I do like the area where I currently reside considerably, I would prefer to stay here much longer. The only downside to the area is not being able to see all the Duke games on TV.
Congratulations! To where will you be moving? :happy-bouncyblue: :happy-bouncyblue:
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