so I do contract work...usually things go smoothly..but this is awful:
I just started working 2 weeks ago for this water company. I should be there for about 5 months minimum. about 20% of my job is taking over for this girl on maternity leave, dealing with water metere maintenance...fairly easy stuff, just tedious. The other 80% is long-term projects with excel, and access, it's fairly technical stuff dealing with customer databases and the like. After they hired me, the owner's daughter decided that she wanted to work there this summer while she's on break from college, so they hired her too
The company now doesn't think there's enough work for both of us so today my supervisor says 'yeah, we're going to train her to do the water meter maintenance. We'll try to keep you here till the end of next week if we can'.
Now I understand wanting to give your daughter a job....buuuut: She doesn't know what Access or Excel are! The projects I was going to do, just simply won't get done now...she can do the 20% of my job that deals with the water meters...PLUS in 2 months, the girl I'm helphing to cover for will be out on maternity leave, the daughter of the owner will be back in college, and the only other front end person that's there will be deep into her own pregnancy! So literally all 4 of us could be gone by then. You'd think the owner would have the foresight to think 'well the work will be thin for a month or two, but everyone's leaving in a month, and this guy we just hired is the only person we have qualified to do any of the projects we want'
UUUUUUUUUUUUGH
I just started working 2 weeks ago for this water company. I should be there for about 5 months minimum. about 20% of my job is taking over for this girl on maternity leave, dealing with water metere maintenance...fairly easy stuff, just tedious. The other 80% is long-term projects with excel, and access, it's fairly technical stuff dealing with customer databases and the like. After they hired me, the owner's daughter decided that she wanted to work there this summer while she's on break from college, so they hired her too
The company now doesn't think there's enough work for both of us so today my supervisor says 'yeah, we're going to train her to do the water meter maintenance. We'll try to keep you here till the end of next week if we can'.
Now I understand wanting to give your daughter a job....buuuut: She doesn't know what Access or Excel are! The projects I was going to do, just simply won't get done now...she can do the 20% of my job that deals with the water meters...PLUS in 2 months, the girl I'm helphing to cover for will be out on maternity leave, the daughter of the owner will be back in college, and the only other front end person that's there will be deep into her own pregnancy! So literally all 4 of us could be gone by then. You'd think the owner would have the foresight to think 'well the work will be thin for a month or two, but everyone's leaving in a month, and this guy we just hired is the only person we have qualified to do any of the projects we want'
UUUUUUUUUUUUGH
Sucks that he's thinking in the present rather than the future. Maybe you could point it out to him.
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