With the new company, developers are kings (their words). To speak to one, you must go via a process
You can't ask a developer to fix a computer, as its a waste of their time. This effects me more than the rest of the team, because I'm 50% garbage man, someone will say "Can you fix this problem" or "Can you create this facility" and I'll just do it. I'm great at doing those sorts of things, and everyone thinks I'm awesome for doing it.

The other 50% of the time I'm very innotive, working with social network apis, and testing creating things that sometimes lead to 10ks of facebook likes and lots of "Holy shit, didn't realise that was possible for us", and sometimes it amounts to nothing. I do a lot of this in my own time because I enjoy it, I get to play around and do stuff that gets seen by millions of people.

With the new people, they're more like.... it's hard to explain, but for an example, one new guy (my eventual new boss) grillied out another new guy about how long it took to do something, infront of everyone. They were questions that could not be awnsered, in making website things (design and development) sometimes a sollution clicks in place in minutes, other times it'll take days. You can give deadlines all you want, but sometimes the scheduals write themselves. Other things pop up that wasn't considered, but then the question is "Why wasn't they considered?".
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 5 Apr 2012, 20:04, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

Sounds like a small company that the new guys are trying to grow
It's inevitable that they will bring some 'big business' feelings with them, timelines, p&ls etc, these sound business principles are essential however they can be irking. A middle ground will result in a better run business with the freedoms that you have previously enjoyed.

Good luck negotiating!
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 5 Apr 2012, 20:13, Reply)

So the new owners have a more professional approach.
Deal with it or look for another job.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 5 Apr 2012, 20:30, Reply)

A compromise should be possible

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 5 Apr 2012, 20:35, Reply)

But is not a requirement for the new owners to adhere to.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 5 Apr 2012, 20:53, Reply)

No of course not, but to run a creative business you need to give some slack
Otherwise you grind out the reason you bought the business in the first place
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 5 Apr 2012, 20:58, Reply)

Or you replace the 'talent' with people with a better attitude towards the new strategy in addition to their technical ability.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 5 Apr 2012, 21:15, Reply)

Bullshit, a company is one thing, it's people and their talent
You remove that and you destroy the the company you bought, what would be the point in that?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 5 Apr 2012, 21:17, Reply)

Oh God, here we go.
(ThunderCuntThePendejo officially less shit than NakedApe, Thu 5 Apr 2012, 20:44, Reply)

Heh heh.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 5 Apr 2012, 20:52, Reply)

Yeah', thats whats happening.
If I wanted to be in a proffesional enviroment I'll be trippling my wage at some dullard's financal sector.

In the meant time, about a second after I posted that, something on the server fucked up and took our main site down, and I fixed the whole thing through skype when it's WAY beyond my realm of responcibility and seriously fucking impressed them.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 5 Apr 2012, 21:24, Reply)