| I too have handed in my resignation, effective Friday December 9.
When I leave Ireland next week on Tuesday 22 November, it will be
for the last time for a while. I'm very sad to leave Digital, and
sadder even to know that it will be a long time before I come back
to Ireland. (I live in Atlanta, GA, USA). Good luck to all those
others who are going now too!
This is what I sent out to others, announcing my resignation.
-Jay
I've decided that it is time for me to pursue other career options
than those offered by Digital. Over the four and a half years
that I've been with Digital, in three positions (technical sales
support, telephone customer support, and software engineering)
I've continued to fall behind in total compensation as compared
to what I was routinely offered by competitors. At the same
time, I developed more and more belief that Digital did not
understand that to be competitive in today's computer industry,
a company must be flexible and willing to take carefully
calculated risks, and to carefully cultivate its best talent,
taking great pains to avoid losing that talent to the
competition.
Finally, this past weekend, I met up with a second level manager
whose attitude sealed my belief that, for all of its changes,
Digital has not yet made itself in to a company where people
are given authority and accountability, and are respected to
do their best, and then praised or punished as appropriate.
This bureaucratic constraint impacts not only individual contributors,
but even on people up to third level management, and may very
well reflect the vestiges of the old senior leadership as it
struggles to change Digital in to a modern company. The higher
up the chain one goes, the more responsibility one must place
on the individual for allowing this state of affairs to continue.
The company is still bogged down so heavily in corporate bureaucracy
that it would rather lose a resource which will cost a significant
project a six month delay than break its own burdensome procedures
in order to maintain the resource.
I am going to be working for Computer Generation, Inc, a 27 year
old privately held technology integrator and software house,
also located in Atlanta (where I currently work). There, I have
found from talking with their employees and touring their facilities,
I will be respected, given responsibility and accountability,
trained, and challenged to the fullest extent of my abilities.
I will be paid competitively, and will receive bonuses when my
actions merit them. The company is austere - it is not "cushy"
which Digital is, despite all of the changes and uncertainties
of the past few years.
I'm very sad to leave Digital - I've been honored to work
with some great people here, and I will miss them, and I
will miss all of the great toys and the cushyness that I
disparaged in the prior paragraph. However, I feel that
this is the way to go for me.
Best of luck to all, and keep in touch. I can be reached
at my home e-mail address of [email protected]
Sincerely
Jay Vassos-Libove
Senior Software Engineer
SMSAT Engineering Team
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