everyone gets found out

there are unconfirmed reports that idiot-techboss at the company i used to work at also got fired on friday. have texted a few people to try and get confirmation and will know for sure tomorrow.

its a sad thing when someone gets fired and it happened to me once early in my career, but can i just say i am glad idiot-techboss got fired, even though that sounds harsh. he was grossly overpaid, lazy, incompetent, fraudulent, and basically an asshole. i know a couple of really good and talented developers that worked under him in his team who resigned because they couldn't put up with him any longer and i know of a couple of other really good people that he got fired. he always blamed other people for things and always side stepped any responsibility, and he would always find scapgoats when something went wrong.

he would spend half his departments training budget on booking conferences in california or europe for himself and his pet developer, and he would ignore the needs of anyone else in his department. he whined constantly about wanting a new laptop or blackberry or iphone whilst the company was struggling financially and people were not being given pay rises. he would put his own personal expenses through as company expenses and he would skip out for 2 hours in the afternoon to go to the gym.

i catologued in some detail in my previous blog (here, here and here for expample), what it was like to work under an incompetent manager and how difficult it made life for me and i am sure there will be people breathing a huge sigh of relief on monday, if it is confirmed he has been fired.

to quote my favourite saying at times like this, everyone gets found out in the end. i would wish him well out there in the big wide world having to compete with everyone else out there, but i think he will need more than luck. lets hope he saved some of this 6 figure annual salary he got over the last few years.