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Friday October 31, 2003

The Last Day

Today is my last day at my current contract - my new contract starts on Monday. This has to be one of my best "last days" in quite some time. I gave my notice a month ago, and everyone has been super nice ever since. To show you why I think it's a good day, let's review some other last days I've had:

  • [Highschool] Fired from McDonalds after 1 1/2 years for calling in sick and going to a basketball game (a co-worker saw me and reported me).
  • [Real World] Gave two weeks notice (contract was ending as well). Escorted out of building two days before my last day for telling head honcho of Marketing that I'd be available to do work after my contract ended. I was advised to do this by the webmaster (who was a contractor). Apparently, this was a violation of my contract with IBM and the VP immediately told my boss I'd sent the e-mail. Started new job at eDeploy the next day.
  • [Real World] After three rounds of layoffs, the CEO announced that we'd be closing the doors. Started drinking at noon, found contract two weeks later. This led to full time work through Raible Designs.
  • [Real World] We were told we needed to re-estimate the project since we were over budget. They told us to take a week off while they figured out some budget stuff - when we came back, they told us we had one week left. Javadocs and knowledge transfer all week. Didn't find new gig for 2 months.
  • [Real World] We had nothing to do for the last two months of the project - finally found out ending date. Quit one week early to do a small side project.

Any good last day stories out there?

Posted in General at Oct 31 2003, 11:12:14 AM MST 3 Comments
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The day after I completed the final round of training for the network and website I made for a Lease Financing company, I came into work and the boss called me into his office. Since his project was done, apparently so was I.

Posted by marc adams on October 31, 2003 at 02:58 PM MST #

I worked for a small startup and the environment of employee manipulation was just unbearable. It was a strange period of time - there were too many workers for too little work, and things just seemed tense. I went two straight weeks without doing a single minute of work. I just worked on my personal website and listened to music. Finally one day there was some work to do- I performed about 3 or 4 hours of solid coding. Shortly after lunch, my boss (also the president of the company) sent me an email to say that he wanted to talk at 3:30. When the time came, he said that he was letting me go. My attitude and performance just weren't up to par. They fired another guy minutes after me. In the following weeks, some more quit and others were fired. I hear that now, they are down to the original 3 founders. Thank you, Soleil Technologies. You helped make my first job after college a memorable one.

Posted by matth hothorn on October 31, 2003 at 04:30 PM MST #

I had a fine job, where I coded a lot of stuff to make my colleagues' life easier. After six months, my predecessor came back from a project and got his old (now mine) job back. My new job was simply unbearable, so I quit and started to work with a bank. On the very last day with the old company I learned, that this co-worker had incidentally destroyed my programmes and - worse - had made no backups. It goes without saying, that his fellows made his job a living hell and I never told him about the backups I had made.

Posted by anonymous on November 06, 2003 at 03:10 AM MST #

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