I’m no good at goodbyes #Post-Malome, I find it very weird that humans have to say goodbye every day to each other if they are going to see each other again or communicate with each other later on. I recently joined a new company and had to say goodbye to my then colleagues, it’s hard saying goodbye to good people and a great company, reading through google you might find motivation and understanding stating that it’s all business and business is just business, don’t take it personally, hard pill to swallow, we all relational beings after all.
It’s easier to say goodbye to a bad experience in a company, than to a good one, someone asked a question at Quora, that how do you reject a counteroffer after resigning, even if you loved the company, the response was interesting, someone wrote that you ought to have thought of it before resigning, so technically you already dealt with the hard part deciding quite. Back to my story, I left for growth, which I felt I so much needed cause I was growing only horizontally I felt, but not vertically, it’s hard explaining that to team members who supported you and contributed to what you are today. So I sat down and wrote a piece of poem, but it’s technically a very short story, it felt better after that, hoping it will stick with them and let guilt trip not eat me up.
I recommend all people resigning to write a short story or email with a unique touch to the people they contributed to their journey and send them, cause everyone can say goodbye, but not everyone means it.
Hope you enjoy, caution, brutal grammar and inside references ahead.
AB Ship
A maverick, 5 core engines and multiple threads
Navigating through Fintech like a hot butter knife, cutting through unsalted butter
All rainbow teams coordinating to break through tides and leaving no area unexplored
The Green team letting in cooling effect through part of the ship via credit department
Oh hoy Purple team with captain Deepti spearing through tides fiercely with swift coding skills
While Vice Anji, taking 1 storm encounter at a time with the speed of thunder, Usain bolt fast
While Team purple members soldering on from behind with no cover at the back to get the job done
One man Team Dharma, “I am the only one who gets the job done, I don’t know anyone who can
cover for me”, Ebankit needed a bridge to come in on board, Dharma offered an escalator, nobody
knows how he does it.
Row forward the AB ship goes, meeting mist in uncharted territories, what’s that ahead?
An unknown request coming from North, May Day! Call captain Ebe from the Security department
“This is captain Ebe speaking unknown request source identified, my right-hand man, will take care”
Mr. Moosa, cooking bullets to neutralize the threat one commit at a time, gun loaded, fire!!!
We live to see another day, “Nothing from my side, Dynatrace all green 200 OK “.
Forward we go into the green pastures we seek, one Sonarqube story at a time
Message from Commander Khan, “Crew we are heading to an ice-berg, breaks can’t save us now”
Can someone call captain Madi of the mechanic’s team, we need to lose some weight to make a
sharp turn, it’s better than crushing the Iceberg.
“What’s up guys”, crunching API standards and ethics for the bank, “Hold on guys, this maneuver
Would set us 3 moons back”, as the open API standard is broken to loosen some weight for the sharp
turn, day saved another release is cooking in Jenkins and Gitlab pots, enough to feed Nock and
Midrand while adding to our technical dept.
Oh, it’s been rocky sail mates, please drop me at the next port, need to gain more stamina for the
next voyage.
“You guys will never see me leaving until something I coded breaks”
gammer4live
