Tired of the bullshit…
This last week sucked work-wise.
Lesse, I ended one contract to take another contract for more money. I had a start date of this past Monday. I get a call from my new contract company late the Friday before I’m to start saying ‘the PO hasn’t been approved, you’ll start Tuesday, Wednesday at the latest’. Ok, the time off will hurt my budget. I don’t get paid if I don’t work. I’ll make do.
No news Monday. I email Tuesday and get no answer. I call and get no response. Wednesday I get a hold of someone. ‘Still waiting on the PO. Sorry.’ Thursday morning first thing I get a call saying ‘Oops, another company has all the contracts for that department. We can’t be your company. Call these folks and get things rolling with them’. WTF? I call the new-new contract company and get told that I might be able to start as early as the 29th. You’ve got to be kidding! I quit a job to move to better pay and now being out of work 2 weeks negates any gains for the next couple months. I then get a call Thursday afternoon saying, ‘oh, you can work for us(the original company) but you’ll have to switch companies again on Jan 1st’. Another WTF!
I finally started Friday afternoon. Looks to be a decent job and I’ll have fun. The bad part is I’ll have to re-negotiate my contract with a new company in a month. A company that seems to have all the contracts on site. So I’m sure I’ll get screwed and lose my gain in pay from moving positions. The new contract company will have the upper hand. I can’t go to a different company to work there. I’ll have to use them. Eliminate the competing contract companies and they can really stick to the contractors. Pay for all contractors on-site has gone down about 20-25% over the past 4 years. It’ll drop yet again over this, I’m sure.
Anybody own a landscaping business that needs a lawnmower driver?
I did get a lot of time to play Halo2 over the past week while waiting though so it wasn’t all bad. 🙂
: A Million Tears from the album “Barricades & Brickwalls” by Kasey Chambers