Punctuated Equilibrium
With as poignant a farewell as could reasonably be imagined from a team of 20 or so male developers, testers and analysts, I took my leave of the company at which I have had a very enjoyable eighteen months. I quit the oak-shrouded buildings as afternoon drifted into Halloween, and prepared to kick off All Saints Day at my new daytime abode in the downtown city. My parting message to the office sums up my mixed feelings at leaving such an agreeable work environment as I slowly crank my career:
And then there was I____...
It's been a great ride the past year and-a-half through the byways and backwaters of Optimised Routing. From the badlands of Balancer with its dark pits and wondering monsters, to the Elysian bliss of getting to deflower nice fresh virginal modules, I've had a sweet time all told. But baser motives compel me not to get too comfortable, and so I must bid you all farewell.
I'm not one to descend into sentiment, so will say only that as colleagues go, you've been commendable, and that I give you a collective "A", with distinctions in liveliness and combativeness. I shall surely miss the immense and sometimes fractious technical debates, the thoroughness of System Test, the caketime repartee, and the general unflappability of the doughty OR troops in the face of often daunting odds. If pressed to single out a most cherished memory though, it would have to be the Bar-One cheesecake from the canteen. O, the chocolatey transports...
To Abel, I pass on the LART. May you use it to righteously smite down insolent managers, feature-creep propagators and/or anyone who attempts to impose unrealistic deadlines on beleaguered developers.
To Allon, I leave the fetching blondes from upstairs.
To Erron, I leave my outstanding Remedy issues and my choice Burt Bacharach collection. The latter may help to ameliorate the former, or vice versa.
To the Coalition of the Unwilling (Allon and Graham), I leave my unsullied codebase. Be gentle.
Were I improprietous enough to invoke the maligned pattern that caused all the trouble, I might depart with: T_________.getInstance().exit()...
It's been swell. Be good.
Is it prudent to write a less than linear email like this to 200 people, more than half of whom you don't know at all? Probably not, but I liked these guys.
And then there was I____...
It's been a great ride the past year and-a-half through the byways and backwaters of Optimised Routing. From the badlands of Balancer with its dark pits and wondering monsters, to the Elysian bliss of getting to deflower nice fresh virginal modules, I've had a sweet time all told. But baser motives compel me not to get too comfortable, and so I must bid you all farewell.
I'm not one to descend into sentiment, so will say only that as colleagues go, you've been commendable, and that I give you a collective "A", with distinctions in liveliness and combativeness. I shall surely miss the immense and sometimes fractious technical debates, the thoroughness of System Test, the caketime repartee, and the general unflappability of the doughty OR troops in the face of often daunting odds. If pressed to single out a most cherished memory though, it would have to be the Bar-One cheesecake from the canteen. O, the chocolatey transports...
To Abel, I pass on the LART. May you use it to righteously smite down insolent managers, feature-creep propagators and/or anyone who attempts to impose unrealistic deadlines on beleaguered developers.
To Allon, I leave the fetching blondes from upstairs.
To Erron, I leave my outstanding Remedy issues and my choice Burt Bacharach collection. The latter may help to ameliorate the former, or vice versa.
To the Coalition of the Unwilling (Allon and Graham), I leave my unsullied codebase. Be gentle.
Were I improprietous enough to invoke the maligned pattern that caused all the trouble, I might depart with: T_________.getInstance().exit()...
It's been swell. Be good.
Is it prudent to write a less than linear email like this to 200 people, more than half of whom you don't know at all? Probably not, but I liked these guys.
posted by Thor Harley at 12:40 am
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