Been at this company for 4 months as a data engineer. When I started their codebase was a mess. All the code was in one folder with subfolders, the scripts were dependent on one another even if they didn’t share the domain problem, their version control was “call the IT guy to grab the backup”. In the first few months I set up a Github organization for them, put all their code into a git repo to start version control, got them to install and use IDEs instead of just VS Code, refactored some of the codebase to use SOLID standards, automated some tasks, transitioned them to a new Snowflake warehouse, and fixed several issues that was breaking their workflow. Today the CEO told me that this is an at-will state and he let me go. Didn’t explain why, just asked for the equipment back.
I didn’t get any write-ups, no one complained about my work, I was always looking for improvements, even the CEO thanked me a couple months ago for writing a word document to my managers on how I think the team can make improvements. They actually followed that doc and have been happy with it. This came from nowhere because no one brought any complaints. Today I am lost. I just need to vent and let this out.
This is unfortunately how it works now. You can be fired or let go at any time and loyalty is dead. So don’t give employers your loyalty either. Don’t put in too much time at work and don’t get emotionally invested either. It’s fine to do with that will make your life easier so you can eventually put in less hours, but you could make the company billions of dollars or save billions of hours and they will cut you just the same as if you were shit at your job with no respect.
this is why I pick boxes. literally nothing could make me be mediocre at any white collar job and be happy with that. manual labour is just meditation, turn off your brain for 8 hours and suddenly you have money to pay for your real work curating a robust hentai collection.