This Business and Moment...

Two weeks into the new job and I'm just about getting the hang of it. I've now also 'taken over' (been dumped on) the 'design management' of the entire project so getting phone calls from nerdy types with very domain specific questions. Been buying time the past 2-3 days putting them off but pushing the limit here. Figured that we're so behind program anyway that another week won't hurt anybody.
 
After our Program Manager handed in his resignation I've today been offered the role. Major step up, daunting but can't help but feel excited.

Some serious thinking this weekend.
 
Great feeling of unrest at where I work.

My manager was just questioning me on when my contract renews (in about 3 or 4 weeks), then he walks over to HR and sits down with them. Now said manager I have blocked on LinkedIN....HR manager then requests to be a connection on LinkedIN.

He then pulls over the technical director (who I work very closely with) into a separate room for 15 minutes. Suddenly he comes out and says he needs to work from home this afternoon and has to go as there is something he has to take care of.

What do we reckon folks? Are my days here numbered? Just in case I have just spent the last 10 minutes making sure there is zero personal data on this laptop and signing everything out/uninstalling anything none work related (whatspp for desktop for example) :D

Side note. I have a couple more interviews lined up next week. Business plans have been put on hold as I have to attend the UK for a funeral. Wedding is drawing closer and with all this going on coupled with my fiance being very unhappy at work right now it's all getting a bit much.

Annnd breathe
 
Sounds very odd... hate when things get like that, it's just stupid.

I swear this place is trying to kill me at the moment. My boss is based in the US. I work on varying projects, they come through either direct or via him. I got an email which had title "urgent" forwarded from him about a project that was needed to be delivered P1 by Monday PM (I met with him Friday...) and P2 tomorrow by Midday!! It's had me working so much, it's a killer. That and I have another 2 projects to deliver by this week, as well as new outlining support training on a solution to a group of people now managing it, so hand holding there. AND I have to put together a whole set of training material by next week as we've already arranged sessions, not to mention the sessions of training I've had to deliver this last 2 week too. Then I'm going home and working until 1-2am on emotuit and I'm beat. I have a cold and feel rough as **** but can't do anything about it. Getting hardly any riding in, it's forcing me to drink to (:p) and now I am writing this instead of using the 8hrs I have left to complete this next phase of the project.
It happens to be for the whole Global Legal team, so they're presenting to the head of global legal tomorrow, hence me getting hit with the **** stick.


/RANT
 
Well potential outcomes I by my guessing...

1) I asked to take the Technical Directors role - not sure if I would accept or decline
2) Someone else is brought in to replace Technical Director
3) Technical directors responsibilities are split between the remaining service desk members to reduce overall cost.

My guessing is option 3 will be the most likely.
 
3 will happen, it sounds like manager wants both of you gone but you didn't get the same meeting because you only have a few weeks left on your contract. With TD out of the way there's no one to fight your corner :(

Decided I'm too busy with daytime work to take on extra photography so I've downsized portfolios, removed references on social media and cut down a lot of the blurb selling myself... and I've had two referrals this week asking for more information already! I was hoping by now I'd be on 4 days a week at the day job so I could possibly continue with photography but with a member of staff going on maternity (no cover), delayed projects and new products it's not going to happen.
 
Any news Phate?

My wife keeps pushing me to push my photography to Steeps, but like you, time is limited. I work full time, I barely see my kids as it is which is all I really want to do. I've told her I'll take it as it comes in but I'm not chasing it.

Yesterday was tough at work, today, I am really struggling not to just pick my bag up and walk out.

I've got websites to build, processes/training to create and a few other projects that I would like to do, but my time is literally spent dealing with ****wits who can't take paper out of a printer when it jams, monitors that are black (power turned off) and general BS while also finding out that the training events I have to attend every 6 weeks to setup laptops has been moved from 10 mins down the road to 90 mins down the motorway and the number has gone from 6-10 per course when I started to now 30 each time, and as I write this my email is going with more coming in. I need someone, a trainee/apprentice to take over the small jobs while I concentrate on the big stuff.

I am still looking, applying for things but hearing nothing back. Can't complain on FB, wife just says "get out then" but it's not that easy to find something. I just know you guys know that sometimes you just need to vent! :)

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Don't bother looking elsewhere. There's a 90% chance you'll just end up somewhere else that can't get their head around copy and paste, or if you open a document on a USB stick, save it back to the USB stick, lose the USB stick... it won't be on the internets somewhere for me just to get it back, or they're not happy with the new batch of business cards because all email has to go through name@company instead of cutenickname@hotmail. I have to constantly make changes like forcing business card emails, altering report form layouts, or missing a line off their expenses forms which are usually wrong anyway because it's the only way I get feedback if there's a problem. If I call them I get "everything is fine no issues", but "forgetting" to pay a £4 post office expense I suddenly get a call saying it needs to be sorted immediately, oh and they can't get the form to work (they forget to save it, the document won't attach if it's blank), close the form without saving when prompted, then it's my fault they've lost their data.

At the next meeting I'm going to suggest they go on a "silver surfers" beginners IT course. These people are well paid to do their jobs but are blaming the computers to weasel out of filling in paperwork required so we have full records of what's happening within the business, the rest of the sales team have no issues with the systems.
 
Steeps said:
Don't bother looking elsewhere. There's a 90% chance you'll just end up somewhere else that can't get their head around copy and paste, or if you open a document on a USB stick, save it back to the USB stick, lose the USB stick... it won't be on the internets somewhere for me just to get it back, or they're not happy with the new batch of business cards because all email has to go through name@company instead of cutenickname@hotmail. I have to constantly make changes like forcing business card emails, altering report form layouts, or missing a line off their expenses forms which are usually wrong anyway because it's the only way I get feedback if there's a problem. If I call them I get "everything is fine no issues", but "forgetting" to pay a £4 post office expense I suddenly get a call saying it needs to be sorted immediately, oh and they can't get the form to work (they forget to save it, the document won't attach if it's blank), close the form without saving when prompted, then it's my fault they've lost their data.

At the next meeting I'm going to suggest they go on a "silver surfers" beginners IT course. These people are well paid to do their jobs but are blaming the computers to weasel out of filling in paperwork required so we have full records of what's happening within the business, the rest of the sales team have no issues with the systems.
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Glad it's not just me! Thing is I enjoy tech, I have no issues supporting people, it's just when the company refuses to invest where it's needed. I could jump to another IT dept inside another company, but ideally I'd like to jump into a tech company so that I can learn and grow. My problem is when I hit a ceiling, I need to keep having challenges.
 
Mate, you can find the time if you really want to. Sounds stupid and things will get tough, I'm currently absolutely shattered. My contract work is running me ragged, I did 52hrs there last week and then get home, see my 3 kids before bed, make them dinner, bath, story etc. and then it's back to work until 1-2am.
I just want to sleep tonight, but I have 2 meetings and a ton of emails and sales follow ups I can't do any other time. I still managed to knock up a casserole for tomorrow nights dinner though and feed these little pains!

It's not easy, but it can be done!
 
randomshenans said:
Mate, you can find the time if you really want to. Sounds stupid and things will get tough, I'm currently absolutely shattered. My contract work is running me ragged, I did 52hrs there last week and then get home, see my 3 kids before bed, make them dinner, bath, story etc. and then it's back to work until 1-2am.
I just want to sleep tonight, but I have 2 meetings and a ton of emails and sales follow ups I can't do any other time. I still managed to knock up a casserole for tomorrow nights dinner though and feed these little pains!

It's not easy, but it can be done!
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Yeah, got home yesterday just wanting some kid time. Little man fell asleep in the car and I took him straight to bed and the daughter wanted to spend the evening playing lego with mum.

Also managed to walk through a massive puddle of dog pee in my hallway soaking my feet and work trousers which added the amazing mood I was in. :(

Jumped on my PC, played a couple of rounds of COD4 and doing very well seeing as I've not played in a year. Hit the MVA and got through the first part of Exam 98-366 training videos. chatted to the wife for an hour, went downstairs and watched a Sneaky Pete then she went to bed. Remoted back in to the work machines and started upgrading, checking Azure backups and writing up a guide for our Knowledgebase based on Moodle for one of the other guys to use. Bed at 3am, up at 7:30 and totally different mind set today.

Still the same old **** but I'm just ploughing through it. I'm making steps to move on, still can't get a review meeting but I'll keep trying. Contracted to 42 hours a week inc breaks that I don't take, plus some weekend and a fair bit of evening work. Then working on my own thing for the wife's place of work (joomla, seo, adwords) and doing a little bit for my daughters school. 60 hour weeks normally, plus the odd wedding photography here and there.

I love working, I love learning and I love making a difference.
 
Well that was a gruelling experience,

Just had 6x interviews for a senior position at a large US tech company, going to be handling anti-DDOS for a global finance network based in London, just been told I've got the job and had a verbal offer through which has made my Friday :)

It was my first experience interviewing with Americans, mostly by conference calls, but I must have spent the grand total of 8-9 hours on the phone, plus a face to face... Although it was pretty hardcore, the process allowed me plenty of time to keep thinking about the role and whether it was for me, I'm also sure out of those 8-9 hours a good 2-3 of them were spent listening to Americans introducing themselves :p

Looking forward to it though!
 
Screeeech said:
Well that was a gruelling experience,

Just had 6x interviews for a senior position at a large US tech company, going to be handling anti-DDOS for a global finance network based in London, just been told I've got the job and had a verbal offer through which has made my Friday :)

It was my first experience interviewing with Americans, mostly by conference calls, but I must have spent the grand total of 8-9 hours on the phone, plus a face to face... Although it was pretty hardcore, the process allowed me plenty of time to keep thinking about the role and whether it was for me, I'm also sure out of those 8-9 hours a good 2-3 of them were spent listening to Americans introducing themselves :p

Looking forward to it though!
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Congratulations!! that is awesome news but one hell of a process to get it.

I've worked with quite a few Americans now and they all seem to be able to talk for hours and usually about nothing in particular :D
 
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