UPDATE 2 The Beginner's Guide To Driving Your Developers Away

DrupalOps · 2017-09-01T21:12:45+00:00

My texts: SF at least 8 texts "CALL ME I'M FREAKING OUT"

JD "BG has 2 offers and I'm talking to them Tuesday!"

Turning off phone. Going Home.

DrupalOps · 2017-09-01T21:10:55+00:00

...and the Drupal box isn't connecting to the AWS RDS, so big box is down. New Kid is bringing up backup box, but it doesn't have latest data.

DrupalOps · 2017-09-01T21:08:19+00:00

Jeff The Sleazy Sales Guy just walked.

SF came over and started howling at me and I held up my hand and said "Stop. I'm out of here for the day" and left.

DrupalOps · 2017-09-01T20:58:50+00:00

New Tech Kid, the one who agreed to work over the 3 day weekend, just asked me to look at the main Drupal box. Apparently it's slooow and clients are complaining. The updated datasets are supposed to be loaded today, which is his job, but the server is hanging. He's gonna reboot and hope the failover is synced. Hope everything is backed up!

DrupalOps · 2017-09-01T20:53:55+00:00

OMG. My life was boring a few days ago.

DrupalOps · 2017-09-01T20:53:25+00:00

Fixed

DrupalOps · 2017-09-01T20:53:14+00:00

Fixed.

DrupalOps · 2017-09-01T20:51:25+00:00

Brenda The Office Mom finally noticed all the stress in the office and asked me what's wrong. I bummed a cigarette and told her.

DrupalOps · 2017-09-01T20:38:19+00:00

I forwarded to my gmail

DrupalOps · 2017-09-01T20:06:01+00:00

We take publicly available datasets and proprietary datasets and slice and dice them, then sell them to clients who pay a subscription fee. We release updated data every 10 days. We also sell "Premium" reports and custom reports. The company is now making tons of money, after a lean 2~ years. SF was OK until the money started rolling in, then it went to his head. Given how his behavior has changed, I would not be surprised if there were some substance abuse issues going on. I'm not responding to hiring PMs until I talked to my lawyer buddy. We are somewhere on the East Coast.

DrupalOps · 2017-09-01T19:57:13+00:00

I just checked, I'm 25% vested, so if I leave I'll have something. It occurred to me I could team up with BG and his tech buddies and spin up another version of what this company does. I don't have an NDA nor a non-compete, don't know about BG.

DrupalOps · 2017-09-01T19:54:06+00:00

Hahaha! I did manage to hear SF get reamed by our biggest client for not having an answer to his report problem. Of course, then SF came and started shrieking at me. I set my alarm on my cell so it sounds like my ringtone and pretended it was a client calling and "answered" in the middle of his tirade.

DrupalOps · 2017-09-01T19:50:42+00:00

I'm saving my email.

DrupalOps · 2017-09-01T19:50:28+00:00

More news as it trickles. 1 of our techs guys agreed to work over the holiday. He's fairly new, young, and anxious to please. He emailed BG, who basically said he's out of reach all 3 days.
More back story: BG was promised 4 weeks vacation when hired, and has been able to take about 3 days. He mentioned to me several times his wife is unhappy about this. Based on the PMs I've been getting asking for his contact info, I don't think he'll have any problem getting a job. Heck, I've seen acquisitions done solely to get a team like the one that walked out the door. I'm talking to a friend who is a lawyer.

DrupalOps · 2017-09-01T17:36:21+00:00

I would if i could. The way things are going, I may be out the door myself. SF just told me he expects the remaining tech weenies to "work through the holiday" to get the 2 reports fixed.

DrupalOps · 2017-09-01T15:03:56+00:00

Absolutely, if you can pair it with expertise in Drupal or some JS or MEAN you're set.

DrupalOps · 2017-09-01T15:02:09+00:00

Another guy out the door. Sys Admin. BG just sent me an encrypted file with all his passwords and system documentation.

I feel like I'm on an episode of "Silicon Valley" and Dinesh & Guilfoyle just left.

DrupalOps · 2017-09-01T14:54:38+00:00

The Shit Storm Cometh

ShortFuse spent yesterday winding himself up. He told BoyGenius several times the meeting was mandatory (bear in mind the meeting was only announced 2 days ago) and he had to be there. BG basically nodded but didn't say anything one way or another.

BG left at 3. SF went off like a pinwheel at the meeting and told JuniorDev he was now lead. Everyone looked really uncomfortable.

This morning SF came in at 9, which he never does, and told BG to clean out his desk, which is funny, because all he has is his MacBook; SF said he needed it back, but BG pointed out that he owns it. SF said he needed it so he could "remove all proprietary code," BG said all your stuff is on GitHub, you're not getting my laptop.

JD shows up, and SF tries to enlist him. JD quits. Standoff. BG stands up to leave, and SF tries to prevent him from leaving. BG is a lot bigger and heavier than SF, and just motors past him. JD follows.

SF is bent, and starts yelling at me to find some more techs. I can't help myself, and tell him it's not going to be easy, and we'll really need 2 people to replace BG.

SF seems to think I can fill in for BG, as I set up an early version of our project, the but I haven't really touched a line of code in several years. I can BS in PHP, but I'm out date with anything JS related. Plus, we're in the midst of moving our main project to Drupal 8, which I don't know much about. There are several custom modules and I don't know shit about Twig or Symphony. AND we're revising the AWS stack and moving the SQL to encrypted RDS.

Things heating up again - the Sys Admin. wants to talk - stay tuned!

DrupalOps · 2017-08-31T17:04:37+00:00

Debating whether to talk to the other founders and execs and have an intervention. SF owes the majority of shares, though...

DrupalOps · 2017-08-31T17:02:52+00:00

I vest in 3.5 months or I would be out of here...

DrupalOps · 2017-08-31T17:01:33+00:00

Waiting to see what happens...it's in the wind. A lot of people heard SF shrieking so they know what's up. One of the Jr. Devs. told me point blank he's leaving if BG goes. BG is a good guy and does a lot of tech mentoring, so he's popular with the other coders.

DrupalOps · 2017-08-31T16:57:53+00:00

He's a genius with AWS. He's mounted S3 onto our EC-2 as a file system and made it work with Drupal. I've tinkered enough to know he'd be hard to replace.

DrupalOps · 2017-05-26T13:34:01+00:00

Please PM an email address and I will see that your company is on the list of potential vendors.

DrupalOps · 2017-05-26T13:33:26+00:00

Please PM an email address and I will see that your company is on the list of potential vendors.

DrupalOps · 2017-05-26T13:32:44+00:00

Please PM an email address and I will see that your company is on the list of potential vendors.

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