"[Office Story] According to plan...UPDATE AGAIN!!!!" Topic

Disclaimer: Not much bourbon was made into jet fuel during the writing of this post. Goth chicks rarely eat sauerkraut while reading these posts…as for the rest…you know the drill…

Okay so I am psychic.
I was off yesterday, due to an issue at home.
So I get in today and find out that yesterday that was a "mandatory" meeting, and that the "Dude!" company admitted that "they were not ready to taking full operational control of the helpdesks and ticketing issues." And as a result they have asked us to "extend"…

AGAIN!

FOR ANOTHER SIX WEEKS!!!!!

So let me get this straight…
This is already the THIRD deadline that they have dropped in just being able to take control of the operation AND DO THE WORK, without "our help", and now they are asking us to stay now until Oct. 9th?
Meanwhile "unofficial word" is that this could be dragged out until the end of year.

And to top this off, they then give us until NOON today to make a yea or nay decision to stay…

So in essence, the people that they hired to do our jobs can't do our jobs with the first extension of training they were given and are now being given an additional six weeks of "help" from us so now it's "officially until Oct 9th", and uofficially we are looking at the end of the year.

So once again, tell me why we are losing OUR jobs???….

It's insulting….
The pay is good, but really…I don't care…I'll stay until I find something else, and then these suit and their outsource nightmare can go suck the sweat off of a dead mans s….

Submitted Respectfully, but angrily…

Murphy

I'm still smelling opportunity here.

Just remember, when somebody screws up big time, somebody else usually gets paid a lot of money to clean up the mess. Be the "somebody else."

Use your time to write a book, called How not to Outsource !!!!

Personally I'd tell them if they want you to stay they need to give you a contract until the end of the year since there outsource is worthless and they need you anyway.

or they just need to tell the out source this is not working and hire everyone back again…

The contract suggestion is a good one. You might even ask for wording that makes it a full amount based on going to the end of the year, whether the project lasts that long or not, with any unused time to be paid in full if the project ends early. Spread the idea around with your co-workers if you think it will help. Looks like the company is in a bind; make the most of it.

Cue song: I've Got a Golden Ticket!

Get your fellow employees together and set up a consulting company. Submit a proposal to cover training, transitional support services and emergency coverage of service lapses.

You can then charge them 3-5 times your hourly pay plus expenses.

What Boone said but make it a three year contract.

You should think about the consulting option, but talk to an employment lawyer before approaching other employees with the idea.

Poaching staff or trying to set up a competing business on company time and while on salary could lead to some nasty legal complications.

Disclaimer. This does not constitute legal advice. Just advice to seek legal advice.

I'm sure that all of us are hoping that you can get one up on these uh GENTS. ;-D

Thanks,

John

Just look at it as charity work you're getting paid for. It sounds to me like you're rescuing the hopeless, while saving the blind and ignorant.
Any way you cut it you get to help someone while on the clock. And as a bonus you get the antics of the "Dude!" and upper management trying to see though the egg on their face.
Just shrug, chuckle, and remember its a mad, mad world.

Oh yeah, keep looking for another job.

Mark

You've got some good suggestions there Murphy. Just remember what Dogbert once said: "I like to CON people and I like to INSULT people, Therefore I will CONSULT" Use this as a moneymaking opportunity.

Murph, Parzival and Napthyme give good advice.

I retired in February, '07. One of my employees was,
at the time, a network specialist who *only* handled
imaging devices (including monitors) and printers
which were network connected, but remotely controlled.

He had a lot of down time, but did a lot of administrative
tasks to relieve others and to earn his salary. I'd
been asked a dozen times why we couldn't eliminate his
position, and each time I'd merely point to the hundreds
of hours of *other* peoples' time that he'd saved us
in the past nn months/years, whatever.

Well, his position was 'rightsized' in April, 2007.
Shortly after, in the midst of a quarterly revenue
reporting cycle, the *entire* output structure of the
financial services group went 'dark,' and no one could
be found to bring it back up.

My ex-employee was called-in and, to his credit, he
didn't 'hold up' the company, but bailed them out.

He is now on retainer at USD 4,000/month (he can be
called-in 24/7), and doesn't have to work another job,
except of course he gets no benefits (independent
contractor).

Good luck, and I understand your frustration…