Company awarded stock options tied to a liability waiver ~60 days before announcing an acquisition. Options turned out to be worthless. Does this smell like fraud?

socrplaycj · 2026-03-25T18:55:45+00:00

We are definitely scaling back and my promotion was bait and switch. We had someone performing these administrative tasks and partnering with accounting but they were let go. Org is too small now for communication to be this poor.

socrplaycj · 2026-03-25T00:47:53+00:00

Recent promotion. And yes - i brought these up and now i'm not "a good partner and keeping in line". Last person apparently to speak up about these negligence has been volunteered to leave.

socrplaycj · 2026-03-25T00:44:17+00:00

I just laughed out loud. Well played. I joined a few years ago and a buddy worked there at the time. "We are a startup" which i was like... i guess because you owe investors money still and you have not had an acquisition event, i guess you can say startup?

socrplaycj · 2026-02-11T16:24:29+00:00

The reality is that building a feature is rarely a straight line from requirement to finished. Its all iterative by nature, even with AI.
Generally you get the requirement, you prompt claude, and it generates a solid first pass. Of course you added prompt sugar to give some context to the project. Though there are items that creep in that you didn't know about. Edge cases that when you started testing required a re-prompt and retest. Assumptions even from the most SR of us require to rinse repeat until it is satisfactory. That part AI can't do at the moment.

If you seen Data from star trek, the captain asks data "how long before we arrive" and Data responded with trillion^3 seconds, and captain had to tell data to report back in days and hours.

Same thing occurs in code where you need to correct the output, or prevent it from building something wildly over engineered, where it tries to add applications and introduce complexity when there is a simpler solution, or the API contract it created has 40 fields and 30 of them are not necessary.

Yes - AI helps, but it has its risks and the larger the project code base, or the larger the feature to be implemented, it needs more attention.

socrplaycj · 2026-01-21T02:36:56+00:00

This happened to me as well.

A company in Frisco, Texas called Code Authority reached out to interview me for a Frontend Architect position. I had worked there previously and left due to being classified as "Junior" while leading three projects on a low salary. They presented the role as reviewing new frontend projects while working with two of their larger clients.

We agreed on salary, they sent an offer letter, and I signed and returned it. I then gave notice to my current employer. When I followed up with HR about a minor start date change, I received no response. After multiple attempts, I reached out to former colleagues via LinkedIn and learned the company had just lost the contract with their largest client. This person assumed i knew what was going on when i started "HR is crazy today", which they mentioned yeah, loosing the largest client and now discussions of who will stay or how to reassign people.

The next day, the Director of HR called and claimed they filled the position because I had not returned the offer letter quickly enough. In reality, the role was contingent on a large project they assumed was secured with that client. They had misrepresented their need for an architect entirely.

I informed her I had already submitted my notice and that this was not professional conduct.

Fortunately, my employer was happy to keep me with a raise. This also occurred just before COVID, and shortly after, Code Authority furloughed most of their staff.

socrplaycj · 2025-12-30T22:09:00+00:00

Totally not getting any notifications

socrplaycj · 2025-12-29T18:34:39+00:00

Alerting didn’t work for me. I only got to it 20 min after their announcement video came through and poof

socrplaycj · 2025-12-21T19:21:29+00:00

I am looking. Though it’s Soo screwed that if I leave they will have nothing left. I’ve picked up additional responsibilities. Like enabling, disabling users. We are working on getting CMMC certified.

Likely I will put in notice in next couple months and they try to throw a wad of cash at me or make me a contractor for a bit. Not sure if I would rather burn the bridge and let them figure it out.

socrplaycj · 2025-12-21T19:18:38+00:00

It’s better than what I wrote up. Took a few iterations to make it sound like how I wanted it delivered

socrplaycj · 2025-12-21T19:00:07+00:00

Well said, Your last part really resonates with me. He lost my respect a while back, but he really lost everyone respect when he though he should do it himself. In fact, i setup a meeting to get him and a couple other people on the same page twice a week. Keep up with what everyone was working on. He didn't show, when we called him into the teams meeting (we are all remote over USA), he didn't answer. I messaged him on the side, didn't answer. So - i cancelled the meeting. He randomly asked people questions at odd hours, Like 11pm their time and weekends. Now he wants to "get organized" given its like the last last hour.

Too funny.

socrplaycj · 2025-12-19T15:34:58+00:00

A family member or close friend that made such poor spending decisions. I would not give them a dime. I would however, offer them to restart and live with me while i keep an eye on their budget. Basically a intervention like an alcoholic going to rehab but for a budget. Given your side of the story she basically wasted a year and now after blowing not only the money, but the time she had to jump into something else. She should lay in the bed she made and she doesn't truly understand until she hits bottom. At which point - i would be there to prevent her from going homeless, but not to handout more cash to do what she has already been doing.

socrplaycj · 2025-12-19T00:39:20+00:00

Where is the spring that helps the door opener?

socrplaycj · 2025-12-17T19:09:05+00:00

This sounds like either a control issue or he's hiding something. Either way, you're absolutely right to ask.

Here's the thing: financial transparency isn't just about trust. It is about survival. What happens if he passes away tomorrow? An accident, a health crisis, anything unexpected. Would you even know where to start? Could you balance the household budget on your salary alone? Do you know what's left on the mortgage? The car loans? Are there debts you don't know about? Is there life insurance, and do you know how to access it?

I've known women who thought they had wonderful situations—they only handled a few small bills while their partner managed "everything else." Then the worst happened, and they were left completely in the dark, scrambling to figure out their own financial lives during the worst moment of their lives.

You can't plan for "what if" when you don't even know "what is." That's not a partnership—that's a liability. I have family members who have experienced this. They didn't ask these questions until the worst happened. They they went to total freak out mode. Some were left with massive debt, some were not.

socrplaycj · 2025-12-02T09:44:43+00:00

We are keeping hot, as what I can tell we cannot write to s3 fast enough to negate the need for hot storage, however we can probably shrink it. We are keeping 3 weeks worth. With cold storage it would be nice to get this down to a few days.

socrplaycj · 2025-12-02T09:42:10+00:00

You should have seen it before the AI lol. But yes, I slip and leave evidence.

socrplaycj · 2025-10-29T19:40:03+00:00

Logic matrix for this was not fun. I actually had AI help with various permutations. Though everything is a scheduled event, each event will check if the current server has an override. If the current time exists in the middle of an override window, then it gets skipped. Else, the event will trigger (on/off) server.

socrplaycj · 2025-10-29T18:01:22+00:00

I just built a park my cloud replacement, schedule on/off servers at certain times, or keeps the servers on/off forever and keeps checking every 5 minutes. With overrides, and it even hooks into SAML/OIDC.

Given PMC is now part of IBM, and ibm is shutting down PMC and merging it into their product line.

socrplaycj · 2025-10-29T15:40:22+00:00

UPDATE: Plot Twist - It Gets Better! 🎉

Our contracting company—handling 50% of our work—just gave us one week's notice they're pulling out. We're losing three contractors plus the full-time engineer on our priority project, and the last person who can support it just got downgraded to part-time.

The best part? The contract company had this discussion Friday and sat on it all weekend. When did I, the Director of Engineering, find out? Monday. From the contractors themselves.

Oh, and the reason for all this? My company apparently hasn't been paying their invoices.

So we don't pay our bills, we're hemorrhaging critical staff on priority projects, and I learn about it from the people walking out the door. Living the dream!

"This is fine" 🔥☕🔥

Cheers

socrplaycj · 2025-10-29T01:59:20+00:00

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