Time to jump ship

Saturday, January 1st, 2005 | Personal

I’ve signed two 3-month contracts with my employer since July 1 but I wasn’t able to get my boss, Big Manager, to commit to another 3 months on paper. He’s only sure about being able to keep me on through the end of February. He’s “asked for more funding” and is “waiting to hear back”. I’ll play it safe and start hunting for my next gig on Monday.

A wise consultant once told me to only believe what I can get in writing.

Work has become thoroughly entertaining. On my project, there are 4 consultants and 3 full-time employees, including the “technical” manager. Big Manager is going to give the consultants the boot in February, leaving those three employees to carry the project accross the finish line.

I’m the only one who knows how everything works. I’ve configured everything, designed and implemented a new architecture and mastered a new technology in just weeks. I’m the only one who’s actually deployed the application to the production environment. These 3 goons haven’t even been able to set up the application on their laptops in 2 months. And they honestly think they can take over development and maintenence once I’m out of the picture?

That’s too hilarious for words.

I don’t expect that they’ll realize that they need me before I’m gone. I just long to be a fly on the wall the very moment that they do.

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