Nearly three years ago to the day, I resigned from my fairly comfortable position at Anystream. 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.

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…

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.

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.

There is more humor to the acquisition, but it’s not yet public so I’ll hold off for now.