Future? What future?

[gothikmaus]

I've just been told the 30th of April will be my last day here.

On the one hand I'm thinking: "WTF, they're supposed to tell us 20 days before! I asked about it a couple of weeks ago and was told I was going to work here till the end of June! How is one supposed to make plans if they don't know where they'll be working in TWO WEEKS?!"

But on the other hand I'm going: "YEEESSS! One more week and I'll be out of this place!" *dances*

It means the crisis really is serious, though. Or, as we suspect, simply that the guy who brought me here messed up, so they're getting rid of all the consultants he brought along. I'm one of the last to go.

Comments

[angrylogic.livejournal.com]

Wow! That's... Sudden!

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's one of the (many) things I hate about this job: you can't even plan things 3 months in the future because you don't know where you'll be in three weeks!

[angrylogic.livejournal.com]

Most jobs are like that, unless you're working for yourself or you're pretty high up in a company. I've had jobs where I've not known what I was doing the next week, since they couldn't be bothered making proper rotas.

At least you're getting out there :)

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

Well, my job is like this because I'm an consultant, so my boss sends him here and there. In "normal" jobs (which are becoming very rare) you work in the same place until you want to go away or until your place goes bankrupt.

[angrylogic.livejournal.com]

But even when you're still working there, you have no idea what your hours are. On the Monday you can go "Ah, great! I have Wednesday off!" and then by Tuesday evening, the boss has inked a shift in for your for the next day so there goes your plans.

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

That happens here too, but only if you work in retail. I work in an office, so I work every week from Monday to Friday.

[schonste.livejournal.com]

NO FUTURE

The endless torture that is SAP will be gone forever? XD

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

I WISH! My boss will simply look for another office for me to work in. Whatever, as long as I'm out of here.

[polarforscherin.livejournal.com]

Oops, that's really sudden. Is that good news or bad news? Seems, they can do whatever they want to their employees. Do you just have to leave that office or are you without a job then?

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

They can do whatever they want because we're consultants: my boss sends me to this or that office and when the office doesn't need me anymore, I go back to our central office and wait to be sent somewhere else. So I'm not unemployed, I'll just have to wait till my boss finds some other place for me to work. By the way, the office I work for was supposed to give my boss a 20-day notice, but I guess they don't give a damn, so 7 days will have to be enough.

For me it's good news, because I'm really fed up of working there. For my boss it's very bad news, because that means that now only two people in the whole office are actually working and earning money and he can't find new projects for us because of the crisis...

[polarforscherin.livejournal.com]

Well, that's not so bad for you then. I hope, they'll find you a new office with interesting work. :)

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

I talked to my boss today. Things aren't as easy as I hoped. I'll write more about that later, I still need to think it over...

[polarforscherin.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, damn. *hugs*