This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons.
I'm a contractor, and have been for past 16 years, and I currently work for a government agency in my third role during the past 20 months. The environment is politically charged with major problems in some programmes that I have now been asked to help with. My role was changed without consultation two weeks ago to put me at the forefront of sorting out delivery of the IT elements of one of the broken programmes.
This morning I was told by a trusted colleague, a perm civil servant I've been friends with for more than 20 years, that I am subject of an investigation about my conduct.
I have written to my line manager (the interim CIO) asking if there is an investigation and what the subject is if there is, and got a bland response saying as an interim he could not comment.
I cant think of anything that I have done that would warrant being investigated, apart from almost loosing my temper in a meeting and telling a subordinate for "******* grow up" in November last year - but I thought this had be resolved. I do have outside interests but nothing that needs to be declared as a conflict of interest and everything extracurricular I do is above board and the agency have always been aware of the the details.
As a contractor what do the government agency have to tell me about what is going on? I don't have the normal employment law protections obviously but would appreciate any advice on what to do next - apart from hunker down and leave which I'm reluctant to do as I do not like to exit contracts mid term or in bad faith.
Ta
I'm a contractor, and have been for past 16 years, and I currently work for a government agency in my third role during the past 20 months. The environment is politically charged with major problems in some programmes that I have now been asked to help with. My role was changed without consultation two weeks ago to put me at the forefront of sorting out delivery of the IT elements of one of the broken programmes.
This morning I was told by a trusted colleague, a perm civil servant I've been friends with for more than 20 years, that I am subject of an investigation about my conduct.
I have written to my line manager (the interim CIO) asking if there is an investigation and what the subject is if there is, and got a bland response saying as an interim he could not comment.
I cant think of anything that I have done that would warrant being investigated, apart from almost loosing my temper in a meeting and telling a subordinate for "******* grow up" in November last year - but I thought this had be resolved. I do have outside interests but nothing that needs to be declared as a conflict of interest and everything extracurricular I do is above board and the agency have always been aware of the the details.
As a contractor what do the government agency have to tell me about what is going on? I don't have the normal employment law protections obviously but would appreciate any advice on what to do next - apart from hunker down and leave which I'm reluctant to do as I do not like to exit contracts mid term or in bad faith.
Ta
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