I had a meeting today with my manager and informed her of my plans to leave the company. For a couple hours prior, I was a little jittery, not knowing what to expect. I had a feeling that it would be an uncomfortable encounter, with me expressing various displeasures with my employment, and her verbally [...]

So, we were talking on the couch tonight about my impending departure. After looking at some numbers, and the resulting potential for increasing our stress levels, we’ve decided to delay my exit. I’ll still be leaving the company, but not it’s not going to happen until … … wait for it … The middle of [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it means to leave Microsoft, and it’s very exciting, but today I got bitch-slapped with the Reality Stick. This is really happening, really soon, and it’s really scaring the Hell out of me. For those of you who haven’t known me very long, it seems that this [...]

Well, I guess that’s it. We went to the Microsoft 10-year dinner last week, and I got my plaque today. As much as I abhor my manager, she actually did come through. We had an “all about Jason” meeting this morning, which was kinda fun. It was interesting to hop into the WayBack Machine and [...]