Have you lost a contract cos they didnt like your personality?

[Old Greg]

That said the way it ended was quite vitriolic, apparently the PM went behind my back to the IT director and put the poison in.

To be fair, it was probably with some justification.

[eek]

My last gig ended somewhat prematurely. I wasn't suprised as go-live was 6 weeks before the end of the contract, and I didn't think they wanted a contractor to sit there for 6 weeks doing nowt.



...

So I worked hard, delivered some sort of project in spite of him and the slackjawed permies, and all the thanks I got (after the successful golive) was a knife between the shoulderblades.

So you failed to deliver what they wanted yet can't understand why that resulted in them tulipcanning you early...

And you still haven't grasped why I was happier to bin a website rather than have you anywhere near it....

[suityou01]

So you failed to deliver what they wanted yet can't understand why that resulted in them tulipcanning you early...

And you still haven't grasped why I was happier to bin a website rather than have you anywhere near it....

Oh no, I can understand it. I worked my socks off, like I said. The rest of the team clocked in and out with spectacular regularity. I appealed to the PM to take things seriously, but he felt that he had set the bar quite high and had some room to de-scope come the end of the project, which he did.

I cannot take the wrap for a bad organisation.

The OP sounded like he came on here from some comfort, and I thought I could help with this anecdote, knowing full well that you would come crawling out of the woodwork. I could have knocked up your silly little wordpress effort web site in a couple of hours.

[suityou01]

To be fair, it was probably with some justification.

Were you there? Did you know the PM? How do you make this assumption? Remember, hollow vessels make a lot of noise.

[Old Greg]

Oh no, I can understand it. I worked my socks off, like I said. The rest of the team clocked in and out with spectacular regularity.

Perhaps the rest of the team managed their workload and time well, with no need for "heroic" hours and associated dramatic tales. Just a thought.

[DimPrawn]

My last gig ended somewhat prematurely...

Suity, there's your new sig right there.

[MarillionFan]

Oh no, I can understand it. I worked my socks off, like I said. The rest of the team clocked in and out with spectacular regularity. I appealed to the PM to take things seriously, but he felt that he had set the bar quite high and had some room to de-scope come the end of the project, which he did.

I cannot take the wrap for a bad organisation.

The OP sounded like he came on here from some comfort, and I thought I could help with this anecdote, knowing full well that you would come crawling out of the woodwork. I could have knocked up your silly little wordpress effort web site in a couple of hours.

You are Robin Deakin and I claim my five free punches. (though sounds like only one is needed)

[suityou01]

Perhaps the rest of the team managed their workload and time well, with no need for "heroic" hours and associated dramatic tales. Just a thought.

Alas not I'm afraid. Most of my long evenings were spent un****ing schoolboy errors in code. How can you check code in to TFS, say a SQL query for example, with misspelled table names and missing commas? This happened frequently, and I reported it to the PM who being everyone's mate didn't want to upset anyone so made a "matey" comment at one of his epic standup marathon meetings. It continued and the project was all the worse for the low code quality.

[missinggreenfields]

Were you there? Did you know the PM? How do you make this assumption? Remember, hollow vessels make a lot of noise.

suityou01
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