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The Story of Joel Eddy (this is to be considered a
work of fiction)
Joel Eddy came to the rapidly growing
corporate community of Netivation.com (now operating under the
name of 'Medinex Systems') in hopes of becoming a great web
developer, possibly even a 'web programmer'!
It was quickly
realized that Joel Eddy was, in fact, a kind of 'trojan_horse',
for the remedial tasks given to him at first were no match for his
enthusiasm and talent. Within a matter of months, Joel went
through positions from Tech support, to minor web design, to web
master? all the while, learning Java, ColdFusion, and Perl on his
own, without any support from his superiors.
As time
passed, it was clear that Joel was in the wrong position at
(still) Netivation.com? clear to those that really mattered that
is? the non-managerial staff. Finally, Joel got a break, and with
the acquisition of medmarket.com, was put on a project to design a
shopping cart system in ColdFusion. In this task, Joel met and
exceeded his expectations, and due to HEAVY casualties in the Java
team (Practix, now refered to as 'Medinex Office'), he was moved
into Java development under the person who had most supported his
wanting to learn the Java language in the first place, Jesse
Harris.
By this time it was clear that Joel Eddy was quite
a valuable asset to the company, having progressed farther up the
food chain than his original manager. Unfortunately, during this
time the Yahoo! message board had fallen hostage to the likes of
fugitives such as "dr_evil_shortseller" and
"s3cr3t_ag3nt_man" and the company was in the midst of a
desperate witch-hunt to find out who was feeding people such as
this information they would have liked to have kept inside the
company. Unfortunately Joel, like countless others, had either
sent or received sexually explicit email, known to you and I as?
"jokes". (we're not talking pictures here, we're talking
'little johnny' jokes).
Sadly, since Joel Eddy was not a
manager, relative, or someone who lacked a backbone, one fateful
weekend his computer, along with 4 others, was secured and
searched, for any sign that he may be sharing information with
people outside of the company. Unfortunately, (or so it is
rumored) 'the terminator', being the Information Technology
specialist that he is (laugh) could not find any evidence of such
activity (gasp). Sure that Joel was the culprit however, they did
manage to find "sexually explicit email" on his system,
their excuse for letting him go.
So, where is Joel you ask?
After enjoying 2 weeks paid vacation, sipping martinis, he had
found another job doing Java development for a local company, and
is living happily ever after.
How do I know all this, you
ask? I was employed by Netivation.com before Joel arrived and
during his employment there. Unhappy with my situation at
Netivation.com, I left of my own accord to take another position
and, luckily, was able to stay in the area.
It's sad to
have seen the amount of technical talent that passed through
Netivation's fingertips due to ignorance and pride. I truly
believe that they employed the top programmers in the area for a
short time, but did not pay them the respect they should have. No
matter, I'm sure they'll be just fine? after all, Tony is "the
best damn programmer there is."
(all of the
information herein is either from my first hand experiences or to
be considered unreliable, inaccurate, outright wrong, and purely
for entertainment purposes only.)
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