Job Hunting Again

[dreamshark]

To my complete and total surprise, I just lost my job. I thought things were going pretty well. I was doing what I thought was a good job, had had mostly positive feedback from my boss in my first 4 months. I was having a little trouble trying to figure out how the local development process worked, but I thought I was making progress on that. Then, out of the blue one week ago, my boss stopped by to "give me a little feedback," and told me that I wasn't showing enough initiative in taking leadership of projects. I was surprised, and faintly alarmed, but being very busy this past two weeks as we finished up the project release I asked if we could talk about it as we started the next release cycle. He seemed agreeable to that. Instead, he called me into a "meeting" a couple of hours ago, told me he' d decided it just wasn't a good fit, and terminated me. I'm still in shock. It wasn't my dream job, but I liked the people (including the boss), liked working in Opus, enjoyed the work. The truly distressing thing was that I thought it WAS a good fit. I was doing the job of test project lead exactly as I thought it should be done. Obviously, my boss had some different expectations, and he must have been dropping hints as to what they were, but I didn't recognize them. This totally shakes my confidence - not so much in my ability to do this kind of work as in my ability to understand what is going on around me.

Anyway, I'm a software tester with a lot of experience testing embedded firmware in networking products (Internet routers and that kind of thing). Thorough understanding of the TCP/IP protocol and bridging, which would probably translate well to client-server software. Quite a bit of experience with software development process. But apparently still a retard at company politics. *sigh*

Comments

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's not necessary to shower curses on my former boss. He's a very nice guy. Apparently just a little too nice - has a hard time saying anything even the teensiest bit negative, and is apparently uncomfortable ordering people around. I liked him when I was working there and I still like him. I just wish he had been a little more direct about what he wanted. I suspect that his expectations were a tad unrealistic, but if he'd shared them with me I could have had at least a fighting chance of meeting them. I appreciate the emotional support, however. Thanks.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

OK, curse withdrawn. I'd probably have done the same he did if any organization were foolish enough to give me power over others.