Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Bye Bye CSC
Okay okay... it's time that I spilled the beans to the masses. It's building up inside and I need to get it out!
I have quit my job at CSC Australia to work for a smaller company.
I can't put this message on Facebook because I currently have clients linked to me there and I've been ordered not to tell them in case the news causes them any panic. All in all it's been a great experience at CSC but the way they are going I just don't think it's right for my career.
The past year I've been left by myself as the only CSC rep on the client's site - even after asking for a grad to help me out I was turned down. So they can't tell me now that I didn't warn them and they can't blame me for leaving as they want me to continue the next phase alone and this time without a CSC PM to filter all the political crap I may get from the client/vendor. No thanks! You would think the counter offer would be a large sum of money - however no I just get a promise of "... in 4 months you could have been promoted to Senior AP". 5 f$%#ing years at a company should have brought me that by now but no - I've been royally shafted in some ways. Now reflecting on my career - I think I should have left yonks ago well at least a year ago! I only realised how 'unqualified' I was when I started looking for work! This made me think twice about staying at CSC - I would rather the skills than the bills at this moment in life. It sorta reminds me of the saying - give a man some fish and you feed him for a day - show a man how to fish and you feed him for life (sorta thing you get what I mean). It's the skills that I need to get back - to stay current in our IT game.
Resigning was harder than I thought. I think I'm going to be more emotional on my last day at CSC. I've walked a few guys out of CSC for their last time - and most have shed a tear or two and to think I will be one of those guys in about 4 weeks time!
I have quit my job at CSC Australia to work for a smaller company.
I can't put this message on Facebook because I currently have clients linked to me there and I've been ordered not to tell them in case the news causes them any panic. All in all it's been a great experience at CSC but the way they are going I just don't think it's right for my career.
The past year I've been left by myself as the only CSC rep on the client's site - even after asking for a grad to help me out I was turned down. So they can't tell me now that I didn't warn them and they can't blame me for leaving as they want me to continue the next phase alone and this time without a CSC PM to filter all the political crap I may get from the client/vendor. No thanks! You would think the counter offer would be a large sum of money - however no I just get a promise of "... in 4 months you could have been promoted to Senior AP". 5 f$%#ing years at a company should have brought me that by now but no - I've been royally shafted in some ways. Now reflecting on my career - I think I should have left yonks ago well at least a year ago! I only realised how 'unqualified' I was when I started looking for work! This made me think twice about staying at CSC - I would rather the skills than the bills at this moment in life. It sorta reminds me of the saying - give a man some fish and you feed him for a day - show a man how to fish and you feed him for life (sorta thing you get what I mean). It's the skills that I need to get back - to stay current in our IT game.
Resigning was harder than I thought. I think I'm going to be more emotional on my last day at CSC. I've walked a few guys out of CSC for their last time - and most have shed a tear or two and to think I will be one of those guys in about 4 weeks time!
Top 5 Things that piss me off about Computer/Hacker movies
Been a long time since I last posted :) but since I have absolutely nothing to do at work - I'm back to blogging!
5. Die Hard 4.0 - Justin Long's Character seems to instantly knows how to control computer systems for a power grid even though he didn't build it nor is he a power grid employee.
4. Hacking always involves writing a whole lot of 'code' (a lot of the time is just HTML) and then somehow jumps to a brute force attack of a login screen.
3. Computer systems always either are very nice looking with lots of geometric shapes that move or they try to look good and would have been better with just a simple UNIX prompt.
2. Screen writers who do not do enough research on the technology they are writing about and think they can fool people.
1. Hacking using some bruteforce attack from a laptop only takes a matter of minutes or hours.
5. Die Hard 4.0 - Justin Long's Character seems to instantly knows how to control computer systems for a power grid even though he didn't build it nor is he a power grid employee.
4. Hacking always involves writing a whole lot of 'code' (a lot of the time is just HTML) and then somehow jumps to a brute force attack of a login screen.
3. Computer systems always either are very nice looking with lots of geometric shapes that move or they try to look good and would have been better with just a simple UNIX prompt.
2. Screen writers who do not do enough research on the technology they are writing about and think they can fool people.
1. Hacking using some bruteforce attack from a laptop only takes a matter of minutes or hours.
