pathetic_existance_mine kingsuperspecial Today is the last day of my contract with Providian bank. They have been paying me a lot of money, which was nice, but they are chocked full of politics and infrastructure and nobody could ever do anything without filling out forms and the marketing people were really pushy and wanted stupid things. Also, the person I reported to directly was a bit of a berk, and had a bad habit of telling the application manager that HE had done things that I had done. He is the 'technical lead' for this development team, yet I seem to always be figuring everything out for him, and he sends everyone to me for stuff to do, and has me 'help' him figure things out, etc. In fact, it is to the point where I can hear him on conference calls, and people will say 'is someone there that can answer a technical question', because they know he's a fuckwit. pretty funny. anyway, Providian made me an offer to become an FTE and not a contractor. It was a good offer, but I had to laugh. Why would I give up consulting (even if it was for more money that I was already making) and tie myself to working under this do nothing fuck wit? When I turned down the offer, they cut my contract short a month. Today is my last day, and they've been sort of jerks for the past week. All the developers are bummed I'm leaving, because they know their boss is a fuckwit and they will have to figure out a lot of things that I know on their own now, but they are taking me out for drinks tonight. The place across the street has these 'electric lemonade' cocktails that are bright blue, and I got everyone drinking those instead of beer one night, and the application manager got smashed. Later that night he and I were outside the office (a 20 story building in downtown SF) and he was bellowing "MARKETING SUCKS!" We laughed our asses of, and if I'm at all bummed about leaving it's because this guy was so cool, and some of the developers were pretty cool as well. Like Kees, who wanted to beat up the parking lot attendant across the street fromt he building - but that's another_story. 010615 ... bsc should be: pathetic_existence_mine 021108 what's it to you? who go blather from