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Losing the plot, losing "can do", losing motivation. Disillusioned engineer.

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tggzzz:

--- Quote from: paulca on March 08, 2023, 11:26:33 am ---I really just want to log out and forget the whole contract. 
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I've told my actual employer,...

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Are you a contractor or an employee?

If a contractor, quitting halfway through will go down well with the agencies - and you may well need them to get your next gig.

If you are an employee, then you have the option of finding a better job and then working out your notice.

Holding a gun to anybody's head is possible iff you are prepared to pull the trigger or have your bluff called. In either case it will be remembered, and that won't be to your advantage in that company.

Wallace Gasiewicz:
Years ago I was assigned to a large plant with a horrible disability problem. My boss asked me to identify the problem
I identified the problem and sent a letter to him and the corporation.
I was almost fired. I was transferred and transferred and then fired.
The corp went bankrupt in part by not addressing these problems (and other problems they did not wish to address)
Nobody gained anything. I should have left the sinking ship long before I did. It would have saved me a lot of grief.

paulca:
The way it works for me is I am employed by company X.  Company X then second me onto a contract with Company Y.  For all intents and purposes I am an employee for company Y.  My employment contract and terms are with Company X.

However the facility formally exists to request not just rotation from a particular company but between entire departments.  It's a formal process which has governance and cannot be ignored.

I've stated my want... no need... to get out of this company or I'll go nuts.  It's been accepted, understood and they are working on it.  In the meantime I can carry on at mediocre levels and not to worry too much about poor performance reviews, it's understood.  Which is pretty understanding and fair.

The issue is, they are not prepared to pull me out without a direct replacement and they don't have anything for me to move to immediately and nor do they want me sitting on the "bench" or doing unfunded interior projects.

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: paulca on March 08, 2023, 03:53:40 pm ---The way it works for me is I am employed by company X.  Company X then second me onto a contract with Company Y.  For all intents and purposes I am an employee for company Y.  My employment contract and terms are with Company X.

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Do you mean X is a bodyshop?

All intents and purposes? HR35?


--- Quote ---The issue is, they are not prepared to pull me out without a direct replacement and they don't have anything for me to move to immediately and nor do they want me sitting on the "bench" or doing unfunded interior projects.

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I can see why a company doesn't want you sitting around doing nothing. If that company can't find you something to do, then consider finding a company that does have things for you to do.

There will be tradeoffs which only you can evaluate.

In my past I took a job to see whether it would be very good (in which case I would move) or merely average (in which case I would leave and move elsewhere). I left, and putting myself in the position of having to make a decision turned out to be excellent.

OTOH, at other times in my life with other constraints, staying put and/or locally was the least bad decision.

paulca:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on March 08, 2023, 04:07:08 pm ---Do you mean X is a bodyshop?

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To a degree yes.  It does have many internally managed teams and the model they are really pushing is selling teams of people, rather than individual fungible bodies, "team augmentation". 

What often happens is the delivery folks sell this dream to us and the customers delivery people and when we land on site we get resourced whichever way the company wants, often sending the "team" to far corners of the planet on completely different projects and reporting chains.

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