Nearly three years ago to the day, I resigned from my fairly comfortable position at <a href=”http://www.anystream.com/” target=”_blank”>Anystream</a>. I loved the people, I loved the work, but the company was being steered into a direction I didn’t particularly care for, they were top-heavy, and management was pretty poor. It was a VC-funded business with a few too many egos, and I couldn’t be around that; I’m too willing to tell someone when they suck… and I did… and poor management didn’t handle it correctly.<br/><br/>This week, I would have more than likely been laid off. The company was acquired, and from what I know, the QA team is no more. I’ve now got a handful of friends looking for jobs in what’s not the best job market of all-time… Could have been me. I wish I could help them out, but yeah, times are tough…<br/><br/>I’ve looked back from time to time wondering if I had made the right decision… Now I can rest assured. A company that willingly cuts 1/3 of its employees, some of them who had been there from the beginning, is the exact place it had turned, and I luckily had to foresight to see it.<br/><br/>I can only hope management is happy, their pockets are lined well, and
they continue to be on the fruits of the labor of some really special
people.<br/><br/>There is more humor to the acquisition, but it’s not yet public so I’ll hold off for now.<br/>