Responsiblility is something that is sometimes totally lacking in our developer community - you have to see more than yourself, you have to own up to the projects you are being assigned to....I just was amazed lately by a one of the developers, who had an overseas assignment in a critical project and then decided to quit in the middle of the assignment because he could not go back home in the Valentine's day to meet his fiance! Not only he had bad delivery for two weeks continuous which was embarassing in front of the customer as this was on the premise assignment, but a bad attitude that overloaded his fellow team members who were already overloaded with the pressure of delivery in a critical project, and they have been in the situation for so long.  A Wild contrast with a person who, least i can say about him, is a man of honor, a man of duty in all situations, Mike.  

It is everyone right to decide to walk away. It is the timing and the approach that differentiate a responsible and irresponsible. I just wanted to express that a person road to success is an accumulation of successful behaviors and attitudes. Every assignment you take and honor, comes back and honor you, even in the toughest situation, you would at least learn something.

I know that someone would jump and say that the guy was akeed overloaded, that the manager was akeed a jerk, i just wanna say that doing a good job is a personal responsibility. I personally worked in terrible conditions, yet i could not just close a task that is incomplete and say this is what i have and this is what i can do, because simply this is MY task, my honor and my pride. I would never compromise my name for anyone or for anything. I would like to sleep at night knowing that i did my best and nothing but the best. This is a simple formula my friend, walk away, and this would be your life style!

My post is not meant to hurt anyone, any similarities with any situations might be a coincidence, only reality is that Mike is a a great man of honor :) I just hope to see even more responsible and dependable developers in our community.