In light of a previous post of mine, entitled ‘Stupid Bosses’ – a rant about how my boss was forcing me to invalidate all HTML by removing the required encoding from all ampersands in URIs – for a reason that I believe is invalid (and a task that I had not yet done). This morning, I found my boss had actually read it, and I have been terminated. Out of respect for the company, and my boss, the article is now 410 Gone.

In a way, although this is devastating to my career, it does provide me with the opportunity for a fresh start. This job was very much a learning experience for me and I will take a lot from it. I hope that in the future, I find work with a company that can utilise my skills as a web developer, and allows me to do what I do best – advocate and conform to all applicable standards and recomendations to produce the best possible results.

So, in conclusion, I would like to publicly apologise for any offense caused. I would also like to say that my boss was not as bad as I made him out to be in the deleted posting. He does have many good qualities, and is quite experienced with what he does. There just appear to be irreconcilable differences between us. So, in a way, this is best for both of us. It is a time to move on to bigger and better things.