It's just all very toxic. I'll be interviewing at another company next week. They can find another architect. This one's seen enough.
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@3sdw, nobody used Notes in the 80's. It didn't even come out until December of 1989. More than half a decade later MS would release Exchange and Outlook which caused massive security issues for the whole world, even for companies that didn't use it.
Ha ha. Sorry but I know far too much about that fiasco.
Well at least they have some feelings for us.
Unlike Notes which never did become enterprise ready. I’m sensing a Pershing decision. Nothing quite says 1980s like Lotus Notes & Pershing.
First, Exchange was not enterprise ready in 2007 and Mellon took a huge risk using it. Second, BNY had tons of apps in LN that would take years to migrate. And you can imagine how bad it would be to keep two collaboration infrastructures if it would even be possible.
More Han a little paranoid here. Name them or give up.
The hatred being spread amongst us is being nurtured by a small international clique. They do their business in the Middle East, or London, or Prague... but they have no loyalty to the homeland.
@2bzm
The Lotus Notes fiasco....that's when I realized it was a takeover and not a merger.
My department had the misfortune of sharing office space with the contractors that handled that transition. Some of the rudest people I've ever met. After they moved on, they left a ton of cr-p behind including cases of Lotus Notes brochures they never bothered to distribute. All printed multi color on card stock. Can't imagine how much we spent on those and they all ended up in the dumpster.
Much like Lotus Notes itself.
We should be happy to get back to 1990s level tech after BONY dragged us back to the Stone Age with 1980s Lotus Notes & a primitive brochure ware web site made by one leader’s precocious child.
Why do people feel the need to post that they are leaving? No one cares - bye!
Any chance you can leave any faster? If you’re truly at the architect level, as you claim, we don’t need you. Most of the architects I work with are stuck on 90’s tech and are some of the biggest roadblocks to modernizing.
And yet so many are just waiting for it to get better……good luck!
Congrats on doing something, unlike so many that stick around and whine.
Trust me, You’re making the right choice.
Best of luck, will also start interviewing soon.
I don't know what's worst: toxic environment, the glacier-like speed to make decisions, or the incredible amount of red tape to get things done.