So I have one manager who tells me to leave Task A for a week to do Task B. I think Task A is much more important, but fair enough, have to respect the chain-o-command.
Then there's the senior manager who comes back off holiday and suddenly needs half of Task A doing (or at least a mock up) that day.
And I also have a project manager who doesn't understand that because I said task A was a week's work it doesn't mean that it would be finished in a week's time.
But what really annoyed me was Task C, which is the responsibility of somebody at a different site in what's technically a different company, but I have to be consulted on. The senior manager phones me up from home and wants to know why it isn't done yet, and tells me "you need to push them, don't wait for them or it'll never get done".
So this is where I say: "I'm not here to manage your company for you. I'm going home, give me a call when you've worked out the difference between your arse and your elbow and I'll come back and finish the work". Only I'm too mild mannered for that, fortunately, because I'd like to keep getting the daily rate.
But I am giving serious thought to looking for something else and walking out of this contract early. It's a pretty crap rate as well.
Then there's the senior manager who comes back off holiday and suddenly needs half of Task A doing (or at least a mock up) that day.
And I also have a project manager who doesn't understand that because I said task A was a week's work it doesn't mean that it would be finished in a week's time.
But what really annoyed me was Task C, which is the responsibility of somebody at a different site in what's technically a different company, but I have to be consulted on. The senior manager phones me up from home and wants to know why it isn't done yet, and tells me "you need to push them, don't wait for them or it'll never get done".
So this is where I say: "I'm not here to manage your company for you. I'm going home, give me a call when you've worked out the difference between your arse and your elbow and I'll come back and finish the work". Only I'm too mild mannered for that, fortunately, because I'd like to keep getting the daily rate.
But I am giving serious thought to looking for something else and walking out of this contract early. It's a pretty crap rate as well.
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