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How much of a notice did you give when you initially threatened to leave?
I ask this because with a very short notice perhaps the company gave you a raise so they could keep you around long enough for an orderly transfer of your projects. Go ahead and take the job with apparent unenlightened joy and immediately begin looking for new work.
I doubt they gave you 20% because they thought you'd be good at documentation.
The grain of salt with which you should balance my advice is how the company has treated people in the past.
Is it the kind of company that has rolled people before or would that be very unusual?
Is there a new management initiated push for documentation within the company?
Does the whole documentation thing sound like nonsense?
Do they typically hang onto the same employees for a very long time?
Did your 20% put you in the top 25% wage wise among developers or was the 20% raise given on a shamefully low initial wage thereby simply making you par with the other employees?
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That's good! You may learn how to write correctly punctuated and phrased sentences...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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The Real Answer
In business a shoe drops and all the little people try to figure out when the boss will drop the other shoe. They scurry around and wonder, "oh, bother, mightn't I be the one to catch the next shoe...mightn't I?"
Scurry, scurry, scurry.
The other shoe never drops. What!?! ***interrobang deployed***
Meanwhile, old Pointy-Hair hasn't even noticed he dropped his first shoe and is busy scratching himself, not even knowing there is another shoe.
CONCLUSIVE CONCLUSION DEVOID OF CONTUSIONS
They ain't got no plan and the plan they don't got ain't even formulated out of the very air of a verbal contract which ain't as good as the paper it ain't printed on.
Or more simply:
The people in charge are just sitting in chairs staring at nothing, deciding nothing and thinking nothing. They hasn't one idea between them all.
Your are thinking something, but they are not.  It is impossible to decipher the non-existent.
Beatles Theory
Or as the Beatles so righteously put it:
Nowhere Man
He's a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
Doesn't have a point of view
Knows not where he's going to
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere man please listen
You don't know what you're missing
Nowhere man, The world is at your command
He's as blind as he can be
Just sees what he wants to see
Nowhere man, can you see me at all
Nowhere man don't worry
Take your time, don't hurry
Leave it all till somebody else
Lends you a hand
Ah, la, la, la, la
Christmas Carol (Dickens) Theory
Here's what happens when an idea actually hits a manager's head.
S/he thinks:
"You [idea] may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave [idea] about you, whatever you are!"
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The Jurassic period produced such an abundance of lethal predators, that the oceans were a virtual STEW OF ASSASSINS - The history channel
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Not sure if you should be worried but the readers of your documentation will surely have lots of reasons to worry !! 
Thanks,
Milind
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you doing documentation scares the pants off me.
You getting a counter offer for 20% more from current employer and not getting anything in writing should scare the pants off you.
True story, co-worker many moons ago same thing. Offer 25% to stay. Brought on 'Intern' as a helper for him as well. Intern was soon promoted and 25% guy was making 125% less suddenly.
It happens. Always get things in writing.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Nareesh1 wrote: IS this sound for worrying?
If the documentation is in English, then yes, I'm a bit bloody worried.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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to a Managerial role. Congrats!
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Is the documentation to be written in English, for English readers? Given the sample provided here, I don't think that it is those skills that are driving the change.
They're removing everything from your control, that may have made you indispensable.
It doesn't mean they'll definitely toss you out, it means that they very easily can, and probably will.
Or they'll forget all about how you held them for ransom, and keep paying a documentation writer well above market salary.
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I was attempting to get familiar with our file restoration software when I initiated a complete restoration of the department wide share drive.  My intent was to restore a test directory that I'd deleted - instead of that I kicked off a restore of everything.
The first hint that something was wrong was when after 1 minute the process was at 5%.
I figured a single small directory should take seconds - I killed the job.
I then had to send out the department wide email confession my goof encouraging people to check and make sure they didn't loose data. No better way to start a Tuesday morning than a note from the director asking for ideas on how to make sure this never happens again.
The good news is that a review of the logs this morning shows that no files were actually impacted - the job was still initializing when it was canceled. Whew.
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For the full effect, start the test restore on a Friday lunchtime, and then knock off for a long weekend!
Remember to remove the battery from your cellphone...
[edit] typos - tablet autocorrect...  [/edit]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Every once and awhile I get the impression, indistinct and faint as it may be, that you don't have my best interests at heart.
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No, no - it's a learning experience.
You'd even look back on it and laugh, a few years later.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: remove the battery from your cellphone.
Two of the best pieces of advice -- especially the latter -- of the whole year.
Way to think outside the box. This little button he clicked is like an extra day off every week. 
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Be glad it did not delete all files before the restore.
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It is actually the same result either way.
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Quote: The good news is that a review of the logs this morning shows that no files were actually impacted - the job was still initializing when it was canceled.
If only you had noticed that BEFORE sending out the company wide email announcing the oops...
"Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses." - Arthur C. Clarke
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I know.... oh how I know.
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MehGerbil wrote: I was attempting to get familiar with our file restoration software
"Restoration" that doesn't ask for a confirmation?
"You are about to modify N items. Type 'elephant yes' to continue."
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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It may have been calculating the "N" items.
And why should hurself be involved?
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: It may have been calculating the "N" items.
Should not even allow such a dangerous action without doing some kind of elevation. In Wow (yes, Warcraft, the game) you have to type "DELETE" after deleting a special item. The extra step is there to prevent accidents.
Sometimes you protect the user; before restoring a backup on a live server the software should ask for blood as confirmation.
Level 95 
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Agreed! Just saying that maybe it hadn't gotten to asking that question yet. But, of course, it's just speculation.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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A co-worker walked into the restroom and said to me, "Oh, hiding out in the bathroom where you cannot break anything?"
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Well, what did you break while in there?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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From it I learned to check this:
MehGerbil wrote: The good news is that a review of the logs this morning shows that no files were actually impacted
Before to do:
MehGerbil wrote: I then had to send out the department wide email confession
The Jurassic period produced such an abundance of lethal predators, that the oceans were a virtual STEW OF ASSASSINS - The history channel
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