After being at one position for 8 years, I was given a severance package, and let go with a pending dismissal date. Because of this I need a position asap in order to cover health benefits. After transitioning through every aspect of .Net development except modern full-stack and reactive programming I was let go. Hence, there is a good likelihood I will not have any references from this position which further complicates things. I was helping a senior developer and got yelled at, cussed out, and threatened. I reported it to management when it became a repeat occurrence. Not only did management do nothing, they made it into a performance issue on my part. The only performance issue was fixing in one Sprint what the senior developer couldn't fix in 5 sprints. I also let them know he sleeps at his desk and in meetings which didn't help. And I thought that Agile obstructions which the scrum master insisted on calling inpediments; I thought that helping to resolve minor issues would not be a big deal since I have always been glad to assist with most everything except direct code. But I finally said, yes, there are environment issues that will impede making these deadlines. I also wanted to institute a testability matrix as there was a disconnect between dev and qa. This was not acknowledged. Shortly thereafter there is a new manager, micromanaging with intense scrutiny and all of a sudden a new QA. I left out that there were multiple transitions in our new development team with layoffs, people going back to the main company, but me and 1 architect, 1 senior lead, and 1 senior developer and 1 junior developer were on the new development team , along with me, mid to senior level. Of those people, there was me, the senior developer, the junior developer and everything else being a problem for the senior lead. A pretty disorganized team that still expected deliverables with no questions asked. The long and the short of it is that I'm left with my old recruiting buddies in the industry and making some new ones. But it's a pretty bum deal for working that long and hard. If anyone has some leads to get around the reference issue I would sure appreciate it.