Things that suck
Having your client call you first thing in the morning and tell you that your talent isn’t working out, and they want you to tell him that today is his last day… AFTER he has left work at the end of the day.
Which, coincidentally, is 6 PM. I’m leaving work at 5:15. Oh yeah, and he’ll be headed for the Metro straight from the office, so I don’t actually get to call him until 7 PM. Which is when I’m supposed to be at a movie. Enjoying my evening. Because I’m not at work.
(This is on top of the completely ridiculous reasons they want to let him go, that I just don’t even want to expend the energy on ranting about. Suffice it to say, employers ought to make their expectations clear.)
June 15th, 2005 at 3:22 pm
I can totally relate to this. At the first job I had after moving to DFW, about a dozen of us, all working for the same contracting company, were let go on a Friday afternoon, after we had all left at 4:30, our normal departure time. What really stank it up was that the client’s executive staff would be unavailable practically the entire next week because they would be off-site at a planning retreat, so there was little to no explanation as to the reasons for our departure. Given that it was the contracting company’s entire staff assigned to the client, we chalked it up to something between the company and client, not any one of us.
June 15th, 2005 at 7:24 pm
Oh, I can’t WAIT to hear the follow-up to this. Some people have no class whatsoever, but they try to make it look like you’re the one without it.
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