Rampidbyter Rampid byter: A byte of my .Net developing life.

I was asked recently whether I was still blogging. Yes, I am, but not that much lately. I’ve been finding myself preoccupied as of late trying to help answer questions over on the ASP.Net Forums. I’ve been doing pretty well on the points with 100 or so posts and over 500 points. You get 2 points for answering questions and 10 points for answering the question. I’ve been getting a surprising number right, and of that I’d say 70 percent of them remember to make the post as the answer. Some unfortunately forget that if I answered the question, even acknowledged by them as well, that they’ll neglect to make the answer button.

On top of that I’ve been recovering from a nasty head cold, almost bronchitis, and an infected eye gland. So I’ve been in the not so great health bracket for the last month or so. I’m not sure whether it’s been posted yet but during this time I found out some information that made me both happy and sad at the same time.

The company I used to work for has been increasingly laying people off, and I thought it was bad before I left. I would have been content there except they laid off most of the people I liked, and the one person I didn’t care for became the VP of the company. So after that and the job opening that made itself available right at the perfect time, where I’m still at, I had to leave. I left and I’ve soon found that the guy who replaced my position was laid off. Not only that but my once previous manager, who was the absolutely evangelist for this company was also laid off. I thought it was a rough go when the one was laid off, but just wow on the previous manager getting laid off. At Halloween of all things, but at least it wasn’t Christmas I suppose.

I made the right choice. I loved the client I was working with,  but while there I went through three managers then at the office party I felt like I knew only so little of them. I guess the economy took it’s effect there, but I’d think it was just poor leadership directed by an individual without many scruples. What I thought was funny was on the companies blog they had a post about pulling comments and moderating them because of an individual who was posting not so great things to hear. Their reasoning was that this individual was posting too many specifics, like names, dates, and failure. One from the company even called it slanderous postings. I wouldn’t be so quick to call it slanderous since they were of course posting facts, names, and explicit failures. I’d call it fact. However, there are a great group of people there (maybe still?) and it’s hard to hear about such bad things happening to good people. When I had my thanksgiving dinner I couldn’t help but think that to myself and how lucky I am. Someone out there is and has been looking after me, and I always have to remember that.