{"id":18,"date":"2019-05-28T01:21:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T01:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2021-09-06T11:37:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T17:37:01","slug":"my-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/28\/my-departure\/","title":{"rendered":"My departure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Originally published on my old blog March 12, 2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Joe Ranieri quit* & moved to a new job I think everyone felt stressed. I know I did. It felt like so much more was expected of an ever smaller group of developers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Dec of that year I\u2019d had enough of the forums and some of the general dumping on Xojo as a product. I\u2019d made a post, I forget about what, and decided later to remove it. And I removed a bunch more of my posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that lead to https:\/\/forum.xojo.com\/44831-norman-s-posts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So my account was altered so I could read but not post delete etc<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward to last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Internally we had a Slack question about how everyone learned to code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I replied as did Dana and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dana mentioned that she\u2019d learned HTML and CSS (I think)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I replied that they aren\u2019t for application coding and and while lots of devs know them those aren\u2019t quite the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And there was a reply about how it was expected that maybe a customer might do this \u201cgatekeeping\u201d it wasn\u2019t expected of someone internal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I replied to the effect \u201cnm forget I said anything\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later I decided that post was not suitable, nor the gatekeeping one so I removed them. And I was editing my previous one about how I got started and managed to delete the thing. Not sure how but I did. Maybe having a granddaughter around when you\u2019re at your computer is a bad idea. I don\u2019t honestly know but Slack really needs UNDO (maybe it has one and I don\u2019t realize it?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway it was gone and I didn\u2019t think it was a big deal as I could repost how I learned if necessary and the other two did not need to be revived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday morning I got up. Grabbed a coffee. Sat at my machine. And since I had slept in a bit started Slack preparing for the usual morning meetings we have. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And there was a message from Travis asking \u201cHey you there?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now he NEVER pings a person before the morning huddle. And I mean never. So this was weird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I answered him and he called. Right from the outset I had a bad feeling as his tone and what he said made it obvious this was a \u201cBad Day\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We talked a bit – but it was obvious the decision was already made and out of his hands. I truly had to laugh at the … pettiness … not sure thats the right word .. the sheer insanity of being fired for removing a few posts that I had come to realize probably should not have been posted in the first place. The was a passing mention of \u201cabrasive to customers\u201d or something along those lines but it was obvious that wasn\u2019t THE core issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that is why I\u2019m no longer at Xojo. Deleting posts that I realized probably should have been posted in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least thats how I understand things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things will, eventually be ok here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Xojo I don\u2019t know as the IDE code base, never mind everything else, is large complex and can be very hard to move in any particular direction and NOT break a lot of things along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Joe continued to work for Xojo on contact for a few months after this because his work on Android wasn\u2019t finished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Originally published on my old blog March 12, 2019 After Joe Ranieri quit* & moved to a new job I think everyone felt stressed. I know I did. It felt like so much more was expected of an ever smaller group of developers. By Dec of that year I\u2019d had enough of the forums and … <\/p>\n

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