atw: Re: Travelers Guide to Job Hunting/The Zen of Workplace Terminology
- From: "Brian Clarke" <brianclarke01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 09:47:25 +1100
Hi Mary,
Here's one I suspect that many can relate to:
I was working for a quasi-government agency on a two year contract - in
fact several of us were hired under the same conditions at the same time.
The job just grew - there was no job description. I imagined that I was
being found more valuable than they had thought at the selection
interview. We were praised regularly for our commercial nous and
productivity. As the end of contract approached, the agency manager
kept holding out the prospect of contract renewal, provided he had a
good story he could tell his higher-ups. All of us contract workers
beavered away much more than the lifers, and produced mountains
compared with the lifers' piddle and squeak. Came the last day - you'll
never guess what happened - no renewal of contracts, and, people we
thought would just about have made junior receptionist material were
given our positions and then they carefully unpicked all the innovations -
such as client responsiveness - we had installed.
Name of agency available on request - it's a state agency repeated in
every state.
Brian.
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