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January 4th, 2000, 07:26 AM
Sorry if it's not a good place to post this question. But maybe it will be interesting for somebody else.
7 weeks ago I changed the job. There were 2 reasons - I finished the general part of development on my previous job and did not want to work with creating additional reports, changing the colors and fonts of labels. And the second reason - I became MCSD. I did not get enough information about my new job and now I'm frustrated. For this short period I found out, that nobody in my new company cares about any programming rules - no description for existing processes and programs, no comments in code, huge quantity of mistakes. I have to work on small projects which were done by somebody. My boss doesn't give me any additional time to analize existing project on which he asks me to work. He asks me to make some changes, let's say to change the logic of one single process. I make those changes without understanding what I'm doing. I see that there is no error handling in that project, but I do not have time to fix it. And much more very bad situations.
How it will be understood by employeers, if I'll start to look for a new job after such a small period of time ? Will they think, that something wrong with me? Do I need to tell them that I hate to work as a monkey (my position is Senior Programmer) ? Do I need to tell them that I used to be responsible for everything I developed and here I do not have this ability?
Any opinion would be greatly appreciated.
Vlad

Dr_Michael
January 4th, 2000, 07:57 AM
If you want to leave, leave and don't tell them anything. Don't care what they will say. World is not too small, I believe...
But if you want to stay there, then tell them what you think, give them your advices and help them to improve themselves, and so yourself!!!
Good luck to your decisions...

Michael Vlastos
Automation Engineer
Company SouthGate Hellas SA
Development Department
Athens, Greece

Chris Eastwood
January 4th, 2000, 08:13 AM
If you're really that unhappy there then I'd suggest that you talk to your boss and air your concerns. If that doesn't help make things better (and by the sound of it, it probably won't), then I'd resign. There's plenty of jobs going for good VB developers, and as you also have MCSD, I don't think you'd have too much trouble convincing a future employer.

A new employer would probably grill you about why you are leaving after such a short time, but any good employer out there will know the score - there are companies around that treat workers like dirt and expect to be able to 'hack' through any project with the minimum amount of money and resources.

Above all, don't try and blame your current employer as the reason you are leaving - always state that the job isn't the kind of position you originally wanted - this way they'll still give you a good reference, and future employers will look on this as ok.

Chris Eastwood

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