It's been a while...

Since my last post.

So here's an update. I'm still stuck in HeshPee. The whole administration style still doesn't improve much and I've understand why my other colleagues just kept silent about it. Most of the reasons are because that they previously come from a local or Chinaman style company which squeezes you until you're torn and battered. So they found great relieve and are quite happy with the way things are done in here.

In contrast to them, nearly everything sucks for me as I strongly believed that all of us there deserves better treatment from the higher management. Although I feel that my reporting manager doesn't really help me, I know he's under pressure himself. The higher managements really do deliver great speeches and 'motivational' talks, I am not that easy to convince unless they really can prove that. For me, if you want people to trust you, you have to give leadership examples first. Don't ever give me the usual bullshit such as "If you are performing well, you will get greater rewards". Those kind of talks are nothing. Show me some leadership first and I will follow. If you only give that kind of talk and promises to me, I will only deem that you are just treating me as 'just another employee'.

I'm not going to continue ranting on the management issue. Now comes the issue with the job itself. This company bought me out and claims that they need my expertise in Java ASAP as it is mission critical. Bullshit! It's almost 3 months and what I found out is that this thing they're doing don't really need Java expertise. Someone with some experience in web development and not even strong in Java can do all of it in my opinion. The questions asked during the phone interviews that they conduct is really misleading. A person will think that the questions asked regarding the technology are really going to be used in the project-which is far from being the truth. There's no EJBs in here, no Hibernate, no Struts/Spring/whatever framework. It's all tightly coupled and I would say that we're under the mercy of Intershop-the company that created the platform that we are building on. There is nothing on the web that really could help us, only marketing bullshit that goes as Intershop (self claimed) offers the largest and the best e-commerce platform in the universe. yeah right.

I just can't wait to get out of this hell hole.