Summer in Winter

The calendar says it's still winter, but the weather is saying summer.

We're in the middle of a heat wave this week. Temperatures have been topping out in the upper 80s to 90F (around 32° C). After Spring arrived in February with lots of warm, dry weather, it's gotten way warmer than normal this week, like 25+° above normal.

I've been wearing shorts the past several days and have switched on the air conditioner in the house. Along with us not having seen any rain in weeks that's my trifecta of signs it's summertime. And the official end of winter is still a few days away.

Another Departure from my Previous Job

I saw an update on LinkedIn last week that another former colleague has left the team I worked for up until recently. With his departure the team's down to 3 in all of the Americas and I think just 6 worldwide. To put that in perspective, as recently as August we had 14 worldwide. A few years ago we numbered 25.

The person who left just recently was also a new(ish) hire, having signed on last October. In a practice I disagreed with, the company was slow-rolling his onboarding process. He wasn't delivering presentations solo for at least the first two months. By contrast, when I came on board years ago, I was soloing by week 3 and training colleagues by week 6. I don't know if him feeling like he wasn't being trusted with a full workload was one of his reasons for leaving. I do know that he's a senior level person and left for a team-lead role at a company he used to work for several years ago. That tells me the company is having a tough time attracting good people, even in this tough market for job seekers.