little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

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If you know of any jobs or contracts that are opening up in the San Francisco Bay Area for a good front-end web developer starting July 1st, e-mail me.

Why do I write this? Because it’s just been announced that I, along with 90% of the other contractors here, are getting laid-off again by the end of the month. Hat trick, baby.

While you know I have boatloads to say about the topic, I will bite my tongue until my job expires at the end of the month. Just know that I’m not stressing out as much as I stressed out the first two times.

Until my money runs out. Then I’ll panic.

Well you know what they say about opportunities, doors and knocking…

In any event, to help you keep your mind off of these matters, I wanted to inform you that my pictures from your Orlando visit are almost ready for publication.

Hmm, on second thought, maybe you should just panic now.

Fan-fucking-tastic. Hello, potential job employers, here are pictures of me plastered off of one Shmirnoff Ice.

…singing about Massengill.

Well, do you still have the gay porn site gig? Its something.

Yikes! I misread your resume and thought it claimed you know the ADA language. Now that’s a job skill employers are clamoring for!

Tough break, sweetie.

This could be a blessing in disguise, Ernie. Not only are you a talented Web developer, you’re a kick-ass writer. Have you thought about selling some of your anecdotes to Reader’s Digest or something? Particularly the one about “back-end web development”… I hear stuff like that gets big money.

Join me and we will rule the galaxy as father and son.

Do we need another Ernie Aid Save the Gaysian Fund?

I’m neither a good writer, nor particularly insightful, but perhaps my quite nascent blog will help?

I’ve certainly been there and are there now…

hmmm…

maybe there is a grocery delivery service or online pet store looking for developers.

nah. better stick with porn.

How about Google? (via evhead)
http://www.google.com/jobs/eng.html#frontend

sorry to hear about your job. the same thing’s happening where my husband works. something about having a bush in office, i guess…

congratulations on the good news!
heeee-hawwww!

If you’re willing to stomach it, I’m sure you could get on somewhere in advertising research. I’m going on three years in the industry, with no degree, and absolutely no fashion sense. Please, PLEASE educate our developers that, yes, the user interface IS important. Either:

(a) I need a clean, efficient interface to really get some horsepower out of all your laborious, well-conceived and well-executed applications; or

(b) I need something pretty to look at when I’m waiting for the utter SCAT you’re shoveling at me.

On a different note, I’m really surprised it never occurred to me to make light of all the pro-fem banter, given the fact that we already have a bush in office. I’m a bit slow.

Um, yeah, the whole point of mentioning advertising research was to point out the dark truth that, as good folks lose their jobs, our industry appears fucking bulletproof. While everyone else fires, we hire. Sure, you can’t buy anything in the ads; but, damn it, deep pockets still work to ensure that you WANT to.

2 words — bonfante gardens! my visit was marred by the spirit of you and your mom. everywhere i went i kept thinking i saw you. in most cases you were a small white boy with blonde ringlets and blue eyes and your mom was a smokin’ soccer mom. but that works too.

don’t worry, you’ll find a job

Yeah, my contract at Yahoo! is up at the end of the month too. They promote the useless people and get rid of the ones that actually DO STUFF.

…so why did I get laid off? Hmm.

However, June 30th i’m on a plane to vegas! The sweet teet of unemployment -> Craps table goodness

So what you’re saying is you’ve lost a job, got a job, and lost another one all while I’ve jsut lost a job and still remain aimless? If you get ANOTHER job before I even get A job, I may have to shoot myself.
Good luck!

I got laid off about a month ago myself - being a contractor sucks.

All I can say is thank God for the unemployment system…

so this is only the 3rd lay off for you? well, that’s not bad! i’m going on my 5th

And here we all are. Again. I keep forgetting which part of the movie this is supposed to be.

Have you thought about stand-up comedy?

heh. Welcome to my extended summer vacation.

See you at Fenton’s on July 1st.

Speaking of porn - don’t you have a certain friend who works for a certain search engine, filtering out the porn? I bet they’re always looking for people who know what porn looks like…

Oh I know! Go back to school! Yay for Dr. Ernie! Please don’t throw anything at me.

All I can say is that sucks!!!!!! But hey you won’t be umemployed forever!!!! See yeah and nice site colors my fav color is green!!!!!!!

Well, if you ever *do* want to get into the porn industry, lemme know, and I’ll give ya a few pointers Otherwise, good luck, Ernie. This economy SUCKS for pretty much anything other than advertising (mentioned above) and porn.

Good luck finding a new job Ernie.

Remember these things only come in three’s, unless it happens a forth time. Then you’ll know the universe is just fucked up.

Again! Damn… Well…the best of luck to you finding a new job…

You caught up! I hit layoff #3 over a year ago. Oh wait: I’m not supposed to crow about that, huh. Doh. Well: Here’s to you landing somewhere so much better, and in the meantime maybe you can indulge in some weekday hookey action. I’m thinking an outing to the zoo to see the new baby penguins is in order.

sorry to hear it, ernie. maybe an “internet” company isn’t the way to go. lots of companies are doing web stuff in-house again. that could be a way forward? anyhow, best of luck