Last week of the contract and a massive fall out with the team. Here's what happened.
The project deployment was scheduled for the weekend. I was never part of the deployment although had worked on creating scripts, but did handover to one of the permies. The PM thought he is cheaper to handle this over the weekend, as the project is already over-budget. On friday afternoon, I was almost done with my stuff, when this guy said can you help me a bit. I just took some bits of his workload, just because he is a nice chap and I didn't want to delay the project as it is one nice to haves on the CV.
This task turns out to be massive as compared to what I expected, and took me into late evening finishing it. When I got up @ 11.30 to leave, there were funny looks on the faces of others who have been slagging for couple of days, and were looking forward for the same during the weekend.
Firstly, no one asked me to be part of the deployment, and asked if I could be available over the weekend. Somehow they just assumed that because I am part of the project team, I would be available, which is clearly wrong. The PM in a desperate bid to save his tulip-hole asked me to stay for few more hours and get done with some of the tasks. I flatly refused as I have other priorities in my life. As I was a part of the team, I kept on getting emails over the weekend at pretty much every hour. I just noticed that there was kind of frustration in the team, as they thought I would be there helping them, but I wasnt.
As this is the last week of the contract, I have few interviews lined up, and I don't think I have a renewal coming this time round.
Make some space on the bench, just in case. Atleast the weather is getting nicer, so can get some good family time.
The project deployment was scheduled for the weekend. I was never part of the deployment although had worked on creating scripts, but did handover to one of the permies. The PM thought he is cheaper to handle this over the weekend, as the project is already over-budget. On friday afternoon, I was almost done with my stuff, when this guy said can you help me a bit. I just took some bits of his workload, just because he is a nice chap and I didn't want to delay the project as it is one nice to haves on the CV.
This task turns out to be massive as compared to what I expected, and took me into late evening finishing it. When I got up @ 11.30 to leave, there were funny looks on the faces of others who have been slagging for couple of days, and were looking forward for the same during the weekend.
Firstly, no one asked me to be part of the deployment, and asked if I could be available over the weekend. Somehow they just assumed that because I am part of the project team, I would be available, which is clearly wrong. The PM in a desperate bid to save his tulip-hole asked me to stay for few more hours and get done with some of the tasks. I flatly refused as I have other priorities in my life. As I was a part of the team, I kept on getting emails over the weekend at pretty much every hour. I just noticed that there was kind of frustration in the team, as they thought I would be there helping them, but I wasnt.
As this is the last week of the contract, I have few interviews lined up, and I don't think I have a renewal coming this time round.
Make some space on the bench, just in case. Atleast the weather is getting nicer, so can get some good family time.
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