The soon to be ex-Heller Ehrman
Heller Ehrman has announced bankruptcy and a soon-to-be former Heller employer has started a blog to keep the exiting employees as they “abandon ship.”
It’s a sad state. Heller Ehrman was a good place to work while I was there (sans the manager from hell who managed me and the telecom group for 2.5 years…) The benefits were excellent, the attorneys were self centered and somewhat obtuse when it came to interpersonal skills as a general rule, but there were some nice attorneys that I met over my 4 year term.
All in all, if it wasn’t for one particular co-worker, getting screwed in my career growth by the manager and of course the lack of career path opportunities, I’d still be there. My last manager was excellent (not that everyone agreed with me, but he supported me and promoted me to management in such a way that I was able to keep my job after the telecom department dissolved… as they had fired the manager from hell and moved everyone under the network operations department.)
I was not familiar with the business aspect of the company, nor was I engaged in the office politics (and there were some… my refusal to play the politics is part of what hurt my career there. Of course, some wiser than myself would suggest that refusal to play office politics is just another form of office politics, but whatever.)
I moved on, I left with no hard feelings and I look back and say “yes, there were tough times, and despite the fact that it had its share of little people with big egos and attitudes, Heller Ehrman was mostly filled with good people.”
Addition:
What’s kind of scary/sad about this is the fact that Heller Ehrman was founded 118 years ago. This company weathered the Great Depression, and now it founders on a major rescession.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/26/BUQF135ES8.DTL
http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2008/09/22/daily60.html
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