..and so one chapter ends, and a new one begins...

I will allow myself the indulgence of one rant for the purpose of purging, venting, and moving on. I will start with a negative so that I can continue forward positively...

So finally, today marks the end of what has been a love/hate relationship over the course of the last 8+ years with the corporate vampire that is Melbourne IT Ltd and its spawn, Corporate Brand Services ...

Not an easy decision to have made to move on, to sever ties with an entity you have contributed to and seen grow, however it was much easier when considering the complete lack of competent upper management and the underhanded conniving ways of their worm-tongued accomplices, those bottom feeding Human resources flunkies...

Always a pleasure investing a good portion of your life into a business, helping it to take seed, grow, succeed and develop into a multi million dollar enterprise off the back of your hard labor and loyalty (and the occasional grey hair or nervous breakdown), and know that none of it has been valued, or will ever be rewarded, or acknowledged.
Your weeks, months and years which provide an opportunity for the company to get so far as to perform acquisitions, international growth, and from then on take a spectacular nosedive into the depths of mediocrity, mismanagement, and foster a morale destroying corporate version of arms flailing wildly above its head...always reactive, never innovative or proactive and creative, or anything that was once possible in its infancy...and now relying on nothing more than smoke and mirrors, dangled carrots, empty promises, and the goodwill of underwhelmed staff who know that they have nothing to look forward to other than a lower than industry pay packet, lip service around development, systems, positive changes, and the occasional self funded lunch or team drinks...

It seems nothing could possibly have been learned or improved during that time as all calls for improvement went unheeded, and no resources, time or investment into this was deemed worthwhile. Strange considering some of the worlds most well known and valuable brands rely on such a strange operation to manage their valuable online real estate... with nothing more than concepts and spreadsheets and decade old systems. Shame on you, and and imagine what would be said, what would happen should the word ever get out that these things that were promised and paid for in good faith were never delivered in any way effectively....

While always claiming to be striving to be a global leader in its field of managing corporate clients' online intellectual property (in the form of domain names etc) Melbourne IT Ltd remains the most shining example of an IT company with nothing in the way of IT, unless of course you consider IT to stand for insufficient technology.

Ah well, such is life when working for a publicly listed corporate with a lack of vision, short-sighted management and an inherent fatal misconception of the value of its most valuable resource..its people.

I see a bright future, fading. I see potential unfulfilled. I see that the COO, the CEO's of Melbourne IT's Corporate brand services and the parent have failed and continue to fail the company, the clients and the staff. You poor deluded fools. Watch the competition consume you and your business. Watch the profitable operations drown through lack of attention and inspiration and encouragement or reward through your ill directed efforts and resources being thrown at the failing operations, throwing good money after bad. You fools, you pitiful overpaid fools.

Good luck to the good people left behind. A good team that made a bad environment bearable. I thank you for the send off! You are all good people, and I wish you all the very best.

So, rant over, and purging complete. I end that chapter and set myself a challenge to leave all associated negativity behind with it. Now is the time for a fresh start, an exciting time a positive future and an infinitely more rewarding outlet for my time, and energy. An adventure...