So my old job wanted me back.

[blackwolfga]

Yeah. Go figure that. The job that I had for a little over six years called me frantically last week. Apparently, a salesman WAY oversold on something that had a hard due-date of mid-December, and they were bringing people in from all around the country and even hiring new people to come down to the Atlanta office to come make this happen.

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[turbopunk]

We used to have a saying at one of my old jobs. "We will write no code before it's sold."

This would leave us with situations like the following :

*sales* : You know that feature you have in the pipeline that is projected for 6 months out with an estimated time to develop of 2 months?

*developemnt" : Yes, why?

*sales* : Well, is there any way . . .

*development* : No . . . No . . . You didn't . . .

*sales* : We just made a $100,000 dollar sale based on that feature being there.

*development* : Well, we can move it up in the pipeline. How about a delivery date of . . . ( ed note: this would be a month and a half, if I would have not been cut of and allowed to say it )

*sales* : Already got approval from the owner. Delivery is in 2 days. Thanks, guys ( and walks off )

[xavi7734]

Unfortunately, I already *have* a full-time job, so when they said that it would take 4-6 weeks to complete it working full time and we only really had 3-4 weeks, that was kind of a red flag. They also didn't seem to want to meet my asking price, so I would have had to lower my hours at my current job (taking less pay) AND not make what I'm worth at my old job, so I would be losing money in the end. I think they realized this too, because when I emailed them back and said I don't think I could devote the resources for the task, they very quickly said "OK, no problem" as if they already determined that was the case right after I walked out the door.

This doesn't surprise me at all. Good to see their M.O. hasn't changed in the slightest.