Back in 2001 I was working as a web developer for a .com company. We
were in the middle the .bomb and knew we were in a daily struggle to
make the company successful. We had a good business plan, collecting
taxes for cities and counties. Ultimately the business failed because
of too much thinking out of the box. The company hired a high dollar
publicity firm to attempt to get mentions in newspaper and magazine
articles but refused to spend any money on real advertising.
I was
developing the tax collecting application for (LARGE_POPULATION_STATE)
but kept getting pulled off the project to fix bugs for
(LOW_POPULATION_STATE). This put the large application behind schedule
by weeks. We had a conference call with elected officials on the
progress of the large state. I was a fly on the wall during the
meeting, I was not introduced and I never spoke up. When the project
manager told the state officials the project was delayed they pressed
for why. His immediate response was, the "resource" assigned to it was
just falling behind. I was the "resource" they were referring to. It
got worse, It was immediately suggested that the resource should be
replaced because they were missing deadlines. The project manager
assured them that the resource was working as hard as he could (me) and
that things would be taken care of. That was not good enough, one of
the elected officials said, "I know Mr.DotComBusinessOwner personally,
I will call him and take care of the resource problem." The call ended
on the happy note of 'you do what you need to do'. Immediately after
the call I asked the project manager why he didn't tell them the truth
that I had been pulled from from their project and that I was not
working on it full time. He explained that is just not how real
business was handled and that we could not indicate to them anything
less than them being the most important project we had.
I then asked
if he was gong to Mr.DotComBusinessOwner and explain to him the real
situation before he received the phone call from the state officials.
His reply, "I can't do that, I have also been telling him that you were
working full time on the project. I have to cover my own ass, sorry!"
I
bit my tongue and plotted my exit. I quit with no notice one week
before the large state project was scheduled to go live. To my
knowledge it never went live as the company went into bankruptcy about
two months later.
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