As many people know, who follow me on places other than this, I had been a Dreamhost employee for almost a year, and even though its now over, I still feel this is one of the best places I have worked at for a number of years.
To my credit, both the main TS manager and my direct supervisor they were sorry to have to let me go. While most people they let go is because either they screwed over the company, or did something seriously wrong to hurt the company, I just wasn’t picking up stuff fast enough for them.
“This job is kind of hard, one of the thing we expect out of people is to be a Jr. Unix Admin,” is a paraphrase of what one or both of them had to say about it.
This has overall been one of the most gracious company’s I have ever worked for, they have a profit sharing with the employees, and even though I wasn’t there for an entire year yet, they included what I would have gotten as part of my last check from them.
My overview of Dreamhost? They are a great company to have for your average hosting needs, however even though with their low prices they made podcasting possible for a great majority of people, they don’t really get podcasting.
With on hand knowledge of how the servers are built, and what I’ve seen happened to fellow podcasters while I was working their this is very obvious.
I really do hope that someday, they will embrace what they helped to create.
So what am I going to do now? This I don’t know, my previous boss, told me that many former Dreamhost employees go and work for Media Temple, so perhaps I will look at them. Or perhaps I will give up living on the coast and look seriously again at moving to Arizona.
