Company pulling a fast one

[neil987]

my opinion

I worked for a client who told me about an extension one day and then retracted it the following day. This was all in the last week of a months contract and left me in the lurch.

Anyway, about a year later, I was on the bench for a while and was short of cash so I went back for another month.

During this month, I lined myself up something far better.

Towards the end of the month, there had been vague comments about a renewal but nothing firm.

The month ended on a Wednesday, with the PM on holiday that week.

I e-mailed the agency on the Monday and said I wasn't interested in an extension. I left on the Wednesday night.

Childish? Possibly, but I felt better about it after being shafted the previous time. And No, I won't EVER be going back there despite the agency not telling the PM I had left and me getting calls asking where I was the following week.

[cnch]

Don't worry, I plan to. I wouldn't give him the pleasure of even looking vaguely annoyed about it.

If anyone knows of any contracts coming up in July please feel free to let me know.

The first person to guess my area of ... expertise (hmm) and find me a job will win the grand sum of £10 and the pleasure of my witty repartee or is it wit and repartee (excuse the lack of accents) for 10 minutes.

[Wanderer]

I may however leave it a couple of days before writing to let them know about my contract being with the agency and not with them

Finish the job and move on, there is no point letting this sort of stuff eat you up....

[cnch]

I plan to. I have never worked anywhere before where 'management' have been so negative and took such glee in saying 'we have to watch the project fail'. Shocking from my perspective - wasting other people's money and enjoying it - certainly given the current climate.
People and their empire building at its best - people at their worst.