Let me tell you my story about the scum company Bluethumb.com.au and its thieves gang: CTO Alex Timofeev, CEO Edward Hartley, and CFO Lesley-Anne Schwab.
From May 31, 2023, to May 31, 2024, I was employed as a Remote Ruby on Rails Developer for an Australian company named Bluethumb.com.au. It's one of the largest online art shops in Australia. I signed a full-time remote employment contract, with a verbal agreement to discuss a salary raise after one year.
Working there wasn’t entirely bad. The project was messy, using a lot of different technologies. The CTO, a Russian guy named Alex Timofeev (which highest technical reference for ruby on rails was that he was door man on one of ruby conferences), was clearly unqualified for his role. He didn’t know how to manage the job properly, but thanks to his personal relationship with CEO Edward Hartley, he remained in position. What's notable is that Alex brought in a few people he had worked with at previous companies. Given the current state of the IT job market, those people were loyal to him—not because of his leadership, but because they were grateful for the job. They followed his lead, even though they knew he wasn’t doing a good job.
Continuing on https://blog.rubyonrails.ba/articles/code-lies-termination
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Just wanted to share my experience for all of you out there. People having hard time in regular lay offs but in my case it was pretty hectic, full of lies and blackmailing...