This dude is a monster

Sergio is a great IT guy. only the ignorant would say otherwise. If he does read these boards I hope he doesnt take offense to the loosers who speak ill of him. Great job Sergio!

 

i gotta give it to the kid. He’s replaced hardware at most sites and I must admit that everything is faster and haven’t had any problems in a while. No more complaints about stuff being slow or anything. I am impressed! My hat off to you sir

 

Little early to be drinking even though it's Friday. Haven't seen any changes.

 

where is the midget?

 

nothing is working better ass wipe

 

Guy sucks like the rest of the dept. They make you an employee yet? You will see what you are worth in due time

 

List the accomplishments the IT dept has done? don't even get me going on the delays getting interfaces up. it's disgusting.

 

Downtime at an all time high. Great job Mr. Monster. Maybe Vickie can help, as long as it doesn't require any actual knowledge of anything related to IT.

 

where is the lil guy

 

hiding...... just one more failure buying BW another quarter to hide his inabilities by blaming others

 

lil guy: MN? as i understand null is at the north pole and very busy helping santa build toys and pack his sleigh. very likely he's in an office with the door closed or taking long lunches while claiming credit for the real work being done by the other elves. that at least explains why he's never here in this office. or does it? either way he sure has santa fooled.

 

big person calling out MN on a website..... He only has a couple people to fool and doesn't give two shits about anyone else.....

 

This has nothing to do with the "dude [being] a monster", but I'm going to slip this in here and not start a new thread, because I know the managers read this thing and get things removed in certain circumstances, and I want to avoid that entirely.

When I first started working at Aurora, it was the Bald man that told me about Cafe Pharma. I wrote earlier that I would never come back here, that as long as I had to work there, reading these boards make my life harder, not easier, because these boards are largely negative, though true. Well, I am back now, because two days ago I was let go, and I have to tell people the details, otherwise the gossip goes the other way, into less truthful directions, as I have no doubt it is are already doing.

When the Bald man told us all in the meeting in the 3nd floor conference room about cafe pharma, I went back to my desk, also on the 3rd floor, across from my manager's office, to google it and I found a review about my boss, written by a guy who had just last week quit. His review, like mine, was just either a day or two days from his last day at work. So I knew who he was.

The problem was that he named my boss by name, so that his comment got yanked. You may remember it. "Dude cries like a bitch under pressure." At the time, I thought this was really unfair. I know a girl who cries like a bitch under pressure. To compare my boss to my friend who cries like a "bitch", well, the crying is all they have in common.

My boss was the worst boss I have ever worked with, not because he fired me. In fact, him firing me doesn't actually change my feeling about him, except to note that he will act like your friend even as you are a walking dead man. I think he's the worst boss because he is just terribly incompetent.

So it was about October or so that he redesigned the application I was working on. I had already thought him incompetent, but at least he got out of my way so that I could be competent, and there was bound to be something "competent" about that, if I could produce good product. But to redesign it as it was going out to production, and expect the changes in just two weeks was mind blowing.

The changes requested were to standardize the API end points. That sounds good, doesn't it? Standardization. But it was really pointless. And he could have told me about that before I started working. Clone EZDerm means to me, do what EZDerm does. Not "make sure the API endpoints are the exact same." What really ticked me off about this, is that he fancies himself an architect for doing this. If you know anything about system architecture, you know that they don't standardize endpoints. They do a lot of things, but this is not one of them. To call someone an architect who does this is like calling someone a painter who is posing for a photo.

The reason I got so hot about it, was that there is no communication. I would like to say there is not enough communication. But the reality is that there was none. Zero. Zilch. So really, my boss is taking me literally for granted, sitting there coding, working, writing, testing, debugging, and if and when he feels like it, he will remember, "Oh, yeah, that's right, there are supposed to be orders as well as results" (something he remembered a few weeks later to tell me).

If I told him that managers plan, I think he would not understand what I meant. Without his planning, he is wasting my time, and his company's money. In his mind, these are his to waste. This kind of "just do what I tell you" manager is what we're dealing with. There is no future at the company for anyone who works for such a manager, because your project will take about three times longer than it should, and you'll never work on another project again. Which is what happened.

But how I said this, because I hadn't communicated with him in months. Because he had scheduled and canceled every opportunity I was supposed to have to communicate, I was pent up with rage. And I let him have it. I have zero respect for the guy and I want to remind you that this is why I was fired. Not because I use bad language, because people say bad language all the time there. "Are you out of your GD mind?" "If you think this is a two week change you're f*** crazy."

But I was livid. I am passionate about what I do. I need a boss who knows that it's a two way street (he doesn't). A coach has to be seen going to bat and getting dirty with nuts and bolts, or else his employees will not respect him. A captain in the trenches earns the loyalty of the privates, and the privates will believe they are dying for something worth dying for. This is not at all the environment at AD.

After calming down and discussing further, I did apologize. All of the above was discussed in professional terms. I agreed to disagree that the end points have to be exactly the same. I began coding again and finished the project.

By now you know that I was never forgiven. He waited until after the holidays, and after the project was largely done, which it is. The last several weeks I worked there, I couldn't find anything to do. I had tested it in every configuration I could have imagined. Because communication was so bad, I found the opportunity to tell him I had nothing to do, and I took it, and told him. We were in the men's bathroom. I said, "I have tested it and it works, and I have nothing on my plate, because everything works." He said he would find something else for me to work on.

Now, that was actually over a month ago. So there were several days in which I literally had nothing to do, since I had already tested, reviewed, checked-in, compared, commented and documented my project. So there were I would say about six or seven working days in which I had literally nothing to do. I was reading articles about things. Kim Jong Un, and stuff like that. I believe this is what they refer to when they say I "do not meet the standards of professional behavior." They might even say that I was surfing for porn. This is not true, of course, but given the "reptilian" forked-tongue nature of what we're dealing with, it wont surprise me if I hear that. People do lie to make themselves look better.

In the final days, he kept scheduling and canceling the same meeting. Once, he forgot to cancel it, and I sat down in his office, and he looked at me blankly. I reminded him about the meeting and he said he was going to have to push it. Canceling the same meeting four and five times should have tipped me off, but, you see, the point was exactly to keep me in the dark that I was being fired. So if you think me calling my former boss "a snake" is a little harsh, keep in mind that he scheduled meetings to keep up appearances about my future employment. Add to this that he acted like my friend for months. The management would like you to believe that we weren't on speaking terms or some crazy such thing. This man pretended to be a friend of mine.

I should now take this opportunity to tell you that one time I came across a server that had not been updated (windows updates) since 2014. Today is 2018. Do you know how many security patches have been published since 2014? A lot. I was told by the now Chief Security Officer NOT to update the machine. I was shocked. Just floored, really. I contemplated updating it anyway, but didn't.

In all, my experience with AD was a page out of the same book that I am already familiar with. Things stink from the CEO all the way down. The CIO is ultimately to be forgiven. He knows nothing. I mean literally nothing. He's a stiff, rigid guy from the old school, put there by the CEO to draw business from hospitals.

I mentioned glassdoor before. No one cares. This board, people pour their hearts out. No one cares. AD is a prime example of no one caring. Indeed reviews? Don't care. The only thing they will care about is when they get hacked for not updating their machines. They care about money, and they treat their employees like slaves. I am a good coder. (I am actually a great coder, but good is good enough for now.) And they don't care. How much sh*t software they have running, and they let go of a great coder who was willing to redesign the applications during the beta phase.

It should show you how much ego comes into play in the engineering process. Obviously, my manager being fired is in the works. I have over twenty years experience, I can tell you that his days are now numbered. "Forgive my sins as I forgive them who sin against me" is not just part of a prayer, but really practical, if you decide to "clean house" to save your skin and make you look better to your own boss. Because now the expectations will go up, not down, and the house that is going to be cleaned, is you. Just ask anyone who worked for Pediatrix (I forget what they're called now; they changed names).

Thank you for listening. Now get back to work, you little @#$!!

 

cool story bro

 

Dude you are high maintenance... Peace

 

Are everyone's feelings okay in IT now...... get back to work!!

 

just heard JJ was shown the door. will IT be outsourced? how do they stay competitive with all those departures. I guess they'll figure it out. Is fred still in charge?

 

Freddie is long gone

 

Bunch of losers lead by losers

 

They keep losing the good people while the money suckers stay and drain the bank. Chris k gone. Jim J gone. A few other devs. When does it end