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[D6Nutz]

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[D6Nutz]

Slightly pissed off. Started the new job this week, all on the basis of 2 days in the office.
Found out on weds that there has been a mandate passed down from on high they everyone has to be in the office 3 days.

FFS.

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Well that went well

After just over 2 months it was obvious that the actual job was very far removed from the advertised role. That combined with the 3 days in London was both shit and expensive.

I quit on Tuesday.

Back to looking for contracts.

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[Kwacky]

Happy hunting

[StMarks]

After just over 2 months it was obvious that the actual job was very far removed from the advertised role. That combined with the 3 days in London was both shit and expensive.

I quit on Tuesday.

Back to looking for contracts.

Whilst looking at the various positions you may consider applying for, a wise sage on here made some pertinent observations..: viewtopic.php?p=164479#p164479

[D6Nutz]

After just over 2 months it was obvious that the actual job was very far removed from the advertised role. That combined with the 3 days in London was both shit and expensive.

I quit on Tuesday.

Back to looking for contracts.

Whilst looking at the various positions you may consider applying for, a wise sage on here made some pertinent observations..: viewtopic.php?p=164479#p164479

Honestly, I'd love to quit IT. However there is little else I'm qualified and experienced enough to do that would earn enough cash to pay the bills.

This is why I think connecting suits me. I'm comfortable with the risk, the money is good, and if people piss me off I can just leave and find another contract. Easy come, easy go.

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[Cav]

I'm peeved.

Manager walks in, "why aren't these [customer] batches made?!"
Me: "Because I've had to prioritise the Audit"
Manager: "But these have been on your desk for 2 weeks"
Me: "Yes. And last week I got 2 batches started which took a while due to machine break down"
Manager: "Who fixed it?"
Me: "I did as that's been your preference in the past"
Manager: "Just to go [maintenance manager] and tell him to get it fixed ASAP"
Me: "......"
Manager: "I've now got to go to [his manager and manager's manager] and explain why we're so far behind"
Me: "I've done everything I can and ensured we've stuck to process"
Manager: "But there are work arounds"
Me: "......"

This is all since team meetings where he has explicitly stated "this gantt chart shows how long it will actually take to do development and therefore this is what can be achieved - if it takes 3 years it takes 3 years".

So yeah.. I'm peeved.

TLDR: My manager's mind changes like the weather and is telling me I should have worked out of process to fulfil ridiculous and not achievable deadlines due to no one knowing how to say "NO"

[Kwacky]

I used to work for someone like that. She would give me my week's work on a Monday, then throughout the week constantly give me urgent top priority stuff.

Next week she couldn't' work out why I hadn't done the stuff she gave me last Monday.

You can't win with people like that.

[Cav]

That's exactly it. It's generally better more of the time since he's moved office to another building down the road, except when it's worse, it's much worse.

You're right, you can't win. I just held my ground with him and when he started repeating himself I bit my tongue.

Ultimately, there is far more work than our team can deliver on time and within process. Either, say no to work coming our way, get more engineers (or technicians who can help alleviate our work load), or stick to your word. I'm not willing to work against process to appease others, it's my name on the documents.

[Perkles]

people leave crap bosses not companies

[Cav]

You know how a child will keep asking different people until they get the answer they want?

That's what this shifts Cell Leader keep doing. He first asked me last week and I said no. He asked a colleague while I was in a Teams meeting later that week - my colleague said no. We then worked together to create a permanent and interim solution.

Just now he's come into our office in a foul mood, ranting and ordering them to give him the list he wants to which I attempted to re-explain the situation and decision we came to to him. He kept talking over me. "I've just made 2 batches of scrap because I don't have this list" he kept saying. Well then you need to follow the **** instructions you've been given!

Him: "Why does this job card not have the right details?!"
Me: "Because the job was printed before the update. We told you, if you aren't sure about anything come to us!"

Him: "why wasn't this communicated?"
Me: "It was communicated to YOU"
Him: "No it wasn't"
Me: "We literally had a face to face conversation in this room"

Absolute **** child. He's a work-shy prick too, just always coming in and barking orders.

As I type this he came marching to the office door, checked who was in the room (just me) and walked off.

[Cav]

Sorry for the vent but people like him are the reason we get so much shit wrong at our place. Our operators are not skilled workers for the most part and they will cut any corner they can, this list he has is going to trigger the start of new corner cutting wwhich will lead to substantial amounts of scrap and customer complaints.

[Cav]

Don't you just love it when senior management make numerous contradictions in a large meeting in a short period of time.. what a crock of sh!t haha

[Kwacky]

I take it others noticed?

[Cav]

Yeah there was a lot of eye rolling, sighs and deep breaths.

[Cav]

Just doing as I'm told... ignoring the terrible business decisions being made.

[Kwacky]

If you can accept that way of working you'll find your stress levels dropping pretty quickly.

[Cav]

You're absolutely right... however... it only contributes to the problem.

I call that approach to work the 'lifer's strategy'

[Cav]

I've had the equivalent to my Wife's "it's fine" by my boss today.. regarding 3 hours I've accrued from unpaid overtime in the last week yesterday I requested an early finish today. He replied late this morning with, "do what you need to do - we will talk about this tomorrow".

What he doesn't know, because he doesn't ask, is that I'm very close to needing a mental health day off work but instead I choose to keep coming in and doing the best I can for him and the company.

We are so over worked.

We had a company-wide business update meeting 2 days ago telling us that we've all been working hard but we're behind targets and need to work even harder. Right at the end the CEO tossed in the comment, "we're doing better than last year, just far short of our targets" before reiterating we all need to work harder.

[Cav]

Oh, the reason for the extra time in the last week is to try and meet one unreasonable deadline which I failed miserably on due to more stupid business decisions (remove jobs from machines which are for customer orders and replace them with 60 change overs to make product with a shorter cycle time in order to satisfy targets, these 60 would go to stores after manufacture, not customers).. I had to stop what I was doing to assist.

[Kwacky]

I take it you're still job hunting?