jjacksonRIAB Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 Well, I quit my job as a game programmer. No more demands from assholes about why I'm not done yet with a project that was estimated at 6 months with the help of a team (estimated by people who have actually done what I was working on), where I am given 30 days by myself. No more boss purposely trying to insult me in front of clients. No more co-workers refusing to do their jobs. No more being asked to explain why I am pushing the deadline ahead on a project that I was never told I was tasked with, or knew about. No more free work in the evenings and on weekends. No more insulting pay. Now it's back to the basics. I've been to a career fair, sent in my resume to about 5 places so far. I'll be good on cash for a while. Hopefully contracting is my next move. I've been programming for about three years total, and I figure I'll just keep drawing new hands and shuffling the deck until I come up with a place I am at least somewhat happy with, although even McDonalds is preferable to the mind-dump, seedy, immoral and unethical company I was working for. I've been out on my own for about 6 months now. I want to keep it going, and it's a totally new experience for me, depending exclusively on myself. I think I can do it, I'm pushing the pedal to the floor. Maybe the next roll of the dice will land me in the right place. I can only hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycorth Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 Perhaps luck will be a lady for you - she was for me whenever I was in your shoes. I've been there before - dicks to work with, insubstantial pay, unrealistic deadlines and expectations, people thinking I was going to take work home with me ( ), and shit work overall. The best thing you could've done was grab your chute and jump off that doomed plane. I wish you the best with the job hunt - it can only go uphill from here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All Gods Fail Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 Hmmm...any hints as to who your former employer was, jjacksonRIAB? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjacksonRIAB Posted May 19, 2006 Author Share Posted May 19, 2006 Hmmm...any hints as to who your former employer was, jjacksonRIAB? It was related to casino gambling machines. I wrote games and implemented protocols. Very corrupt. Mob ties, stolen equipment, stacked odds, pirated software. If the casinos ever test their machines and find out they're not giving the payouts they say they give, they're going to be in a world of hurt. Perhaps luck will be a lady for you - she was for me whenever I was in your shoes. I've been there before - dicks to work with, insubstantial pay, unrealistic deadlines and expectations, people thinking I was going to take work home with me ( ), and shit work overall. The best thing you could've done was grab your chute and jump off that doomed plane. I wish you the best with the job hunt - it can only go uphill from here I was so pissed off with this company I just took lunch and never went back. I've never done that before. I left a couple of post-it notes on my machine telling them where their files were and where to mail my final paycheck, but other than that nothing else. They deserved it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Emerson Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 good for you jj, honestly employers can be such dicks. We have a handbook at work that we can never take home with us, i dunno, supposedly we might "steal" something. Ugh, and yes they're very unrealistic, the big fat cats at the top are such money grubbing whores. I also think that you did the right thing morally, who knows what they might have asked you to do in the future especially if they have mob ties, and pirated software and "hot stuff." You don't want to be involved in embezellment & fraud and have your future and reputation ruined. I hope contracting works for you, my mom has her own business and its the best thing that she's ever done. After all the experience and hell that her former boss put her through, all the reponsibilities of the business are worth it. Its all really a numbers game and you trying, learning, and doing your best. Cheers amigo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vigile Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 good for you jj, honestly employers can be such dicks. We have a handbook at work that we can never take home with us, i dunno, supposedly we might "steal" something. Ugh, and yes they're very unrealistic, the big fat cats at the top are such money grubbing whores. It would be my guess that your handbook outlines business practices that the company feels might be a liability. If you can't take home the handbook to use in court or to make copies of, they they protect themselves to a degree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Emerson Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 ^Yup, it contains what we're supposed to do and say, and not do and say and what we can get in trouble for. Read my telemarketing thread in the rants forum. I am a telemarketer now. *sigh* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fweethawt Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 There's always prostitution too. Don't forget that one. Just keep a roll of duct tape handy in case you catch something that makes your wang fall off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjacksonRIAB Posted May 19, 2006 Author Share Posted May 19, 2006 There's always prostitution too. Don't forget that one. Just keep a roll of duct tape handy in case you catch something that makes your wang fall off. LMAO. I'll keep that in mind, except a blank resume is not a good way to get a job good for you jj, honestly employers can be such dicks. We have a handbook at work that we can never take home with us, i dunno, supposedly we might "steal" something. Ugh, and yes they're very unrealistic, the big fat cats at the top are such money grubbing whores. I also think that you did the right thing morally, who knows what they might have asked you to do in the future especially if they have mob ties, and pirated software and "hot stuff." You don't want to be involved in embezellment & fraud and have your future and reputation ruined. I hope contracting works for you, my mom has her own business and its the best thing that she's ever done. After all the experience and hell that her former boss put her through, all the reponsibilities of the business are worth it. Its all really a numbers game and you trying, learning, and doing your best. Cheers amigo. Thanks I hope I can actually get into something soon. I've only been out of the job for a few days and I'm already bored out of my mind. These particular dicks must be from the same stock as the last whores I worked for. Last ones had lead and glue fumes in the plant, and I kept getting nosebleeds and was pissing blood. I lasted there a while and was promoted to management. Then I had to deal with sexual harassment charges amongst my subordinates. That was strike two. Strike three was when a lazy, asskissing drug dealer ended up receiving employee of the month. He had been spotted dealing drugs in the company parking lot and didn't want to work. He was also caught sleeping in the bathroom several times, but since he was friends with the owner -well, you get the picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amethyst Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 Wow. There was a time when game programming would've been my ultimate dream job. Then I realized I didn't want to work nights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ouroboros Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 JJ, What language do you program in? And where do you live? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Emerson Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 JJ, You are a programmer, ever think of making life hard on your former employer? I am sure there are some regulatory bodies who would love to know about some of the information. I am sure what they have done is illegal. Also, you could put up a website in a foreign country so you cannot be shut down and put a message board for other employees to post on. LOL.....they will not be able to shut you down especially if it is in a country where there is no extradition agreements of information...say a country like Romania.....LOL....just one of my little mean ideas....LOL.... our resident extortionist and opportunist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjacksonRIAB Posted May 19, 2006 Author Share Posted May 19, 2006 Wow. There was a time when game programming would've been my ultimate dream job. Then I realized I didn't want to work nights. I thought so too, but game programming caved in long ago. Game programmers have to know more about everything than perhaps any programming profession out there, and now they get paid below market on top of that. Thing that pisses me off is I never did any actual game programming this time around. I had a job offer for 50K vs. this one for $13.75 and I chose the game programming job because I didn't want to do databasing + XML unless I had to. What did I end up doing at $13.75? Databasing + XML. Suffice to say, I'm not going to care what I'm doing now, because that was the only game programming job in town. JJ, You are a programmer, ever think of making life hard on your former employer? I am sure there are some regulatory bodies who would love to know about some of the information. I am sure what they have done is illegal. Also, you could put up a website in a foreign country so you cannot be shut down and put a message board for other employees to post on. LOL.....they will not be able to shut you down especially if it is in a country where there is no extradition agreements of information...say a country like Romania.....LOL....just one of my little mean ideas....LOL.... Heheh, just a simple call to a news network will end that problem. Few people realize it but the gambling industry is highly regulated. The odds on a computer version have to come as close to real life as possible, so if the government gives you a pay out table and you don't use it, then you're cheating the player. This is exactly what they do. JJ, What language do you program in? And where do you live? Well for this job I programmed in C/C++/C#/VB/SQL and occassionally assembly language. I live in Omaha, NE. our resident extortionist and opportunist. Ever see the movie Fight Club? See what Brad Pitt's character did to his boss...... Yeah I loved that part. It was especially funny when I had to leave work a little early to pick up a shotgun I had ordered. It was the truth, but they stopped pushing so much for about a week. JJ, You are a programmer, ever think of making life hard on your former employer? I am sure there are some regulatory bodies who would love to know about some of the information. I am sure what they have done is illegal. Also, you could put up a website in a foreign country so you cannot be shut down and put a message board for other employees to post on. LOL.....they will not be able to shut you down especially if it is in a country where there is no extradition agreements of information...say a country like Romania.....LOL....just one of my little mean ideas....LOL.... our resident extortionist and opportunist. Capitalism at its finest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggles7268 Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 dude blow the whistle on those fucks, don't let them get away with cheating people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjacksonRIAB Posted May 19, 2006 Author Share Posted May 19, 2006 dude blow the whistle on those fucks, don't let them get away with cheating people. They can afford to sue me, and I can't afford it, nor could I respond to a summons. I'm not in a position to do much good for myself, let alone others :-/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fweethawt Posted May 20, 2006 Share Posted May 20, 2006 There's always prostitution too. LMAO. I'll keep that in mind, except a blank resume is not a good way to get a job It won't matter. Just make up a few 50-75% off coupons on the next visit for your first handful of customers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjacksonRIAB Posted May 20, 2006 Author Share Posted May 20, 2006 There's always prostitution too. LMAO. I'll keep that in mind, except a blank resume is not a good way to get a job It won't matter. Just make up a few 50-75% off coupons on the next visit for your first handful of customers. Now THAT'S thinking like a capitalist. Should I offer frequent flier miles too? Shit, now they're trying to get me back. Pathetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggles7268 Posted May 20, 2006 Share Posted May 20, 2006 dude blow the whistle on those fucks, don't let them get away with cheating people. They can afford to sue me, and I can't afford it, nor could I respond to a summons. I'm not in a position to do much good for myself, let alone others :-/ just drop an anonymous tip to the relevant authorities that certain gaming machines might not be up to code. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueGiant Posted May 20, 2006 Share Posted May 20, 2006 I would also like to point out that under certain statuetes, whistleblowers collect 10% on whatever is found... That and they can't nail you for the truth. Ever consider starting your own thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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