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I might as well be honest. And I swear I didn’t know

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Re: I might as well be honest. And I swear I didn’t know

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Post by statuek »

v64 wrote: post #2

Can someone provide some context for this post?

Iris Classon has been developing (.NET) for about 4 years. She's shared her story along the way; the ups, the downs, etc.

She is followed by many; this kinda came out of nowhere, and as a follower it's very horrible to see her obviously broken right now.

It seems she's sick, and claims that pluralsight.com just pulled the plug on a project that would give her a notable size of money, which she was planning to use to get better.

Re: I might as well be honest. And I swear I didn’t know

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Post by acconrad »

I'm very confused by this, and something doesn't add up.

The premise of the article seems to be that the author is not doing well physically, and that has had a cascading effect on her work and personal life.

Except she won't tell us what's wrong. As someone whose twitter headline reads "The world’s happiest .NET developer & Microsoft C# MVP! More energy than a 5 year old" - I find these statements to conflict with each other.

If you're sick - you should tell your boss/clients/board/whomever you report to. Especially if it's serious. I get the impression she's been bottling it up for a while. Well, if I think, as your boss, you're the happiest dev ever with tons of energy, and then all of the sudden you aren't, I'm going to be very shocked, confused, and lied to / disappointed. I'm sorry, but that's on her. If she's been hiding it in such a way as her Twitter profile, that's a great disservice to her and to her superiors.

The question now is whether or not she has been actually sick for a while, talked with her employers, and they haven't helped her - that's something worth blogging about for mistreating their employees. But we don't know - there's two sides to a story, and even this one side is incredibly cryptic.

If you want to reach to a particular audience, perhaps email is a better outlet. Without a clear message, or even a clear problem, I'm not so sure a blog is really going to help you at all.

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