Also I have a vague recollection. That if you leave a permanent job (which was placed and sorted out, via an agency). If you leave too soon (is it 3 months or 12 months, or something different?), the agency either don't get paid, or gets paid significantly less.
Therefore, it would be no surprise, that the agency(s), wouldn't touch you with a barge pole.
Uh. The "should never leave" doesn't make any sense. There is no work contract in the world with a "should never leave" mention in it.
Also, you mentioned they where doing EMC-testing of some SMPS, why not ask the responsible team if you could've joined them for that?
In that particular premises, most of the actual space was given over to Production/Quality/Stores/Offices.
The company already had a very big selection of products.
All were very mature, all shipping in high numbers , and failure rate insignificant....and virtually no (at least EU) competitors in sight.
Whether the bean counters would think replacing the power supplys in them was needed.....who knows....
..i think maybe i could have stayed there 10 years doing nothing, in order to find out...but wouldve probably been a waste of time.
TBH, i dont want to identify the place, just that it was needed to leave, in order to actually get a job where some actual work might have cropped up......but what's the secret of getting out of the "mud" that inevitably gets stuck to you when you have to do this kind of thing?.....ie, so that you can actually get another job.
Thanks, i must admit to having worked in some 43 or so different electronics companies.......and having the first 7 whole days where there was no solid talk of solid work is a record for me, by quite a long way.
Given all the other details ive put forward in this thread, it seemed like the best way was to apologise, claim no money, get out and try again for another job.
Thanks, i must admit to having worked in some 43 or so different electronics companies.......and having the first 7 whole days where there was no solid talk of solid work is a record for me, by quite a long way.
Given all the other details ive put forward in this thread, it seemed like the best way was to apologise, claim no money, get out and try again for another job.
..Thanks.....maybe they were just hoping i would bog off!
..Thanks.....maybe they were just hoping i would bog off!
..Thanks.....maybe they were just hoping i would bog off and disappear!
Seriously though, not many would expect a company that is already getting its higher power products designed and manuf'd in China, to embark on Design & Manufac of the same products, at lower power, in UK.
Maybe they'd need someone to oversee it...but they already had a very highly competent, consultant level SMPS designer working there....and many SMPS consultants, including the original designer, standing ready to be contacted by the company, if needed.
..Thanks.....maybe they were just hoping i would bog off and disappear!
Seriously though, not many would expect a company that is already getting its higher power products designed and manuf'd in China, to embark on Design & Manufac of the same products, at lower power, in UK.
Maybe they'd need someone to oversee it...but they already had a very highly competent, consultant level SMPS designer working there....and many SMPS consultants, including the original designer, standing ready to be contacted by the company, if needed.
Are you really saying, (possibly subconsciously), that you want to be THE designer of the SMPS's, and you felt like they had put you in, at a low rung of the ladder (so to speak).
I.e. You wanted to be treated as a senior, top SMPS expert, but they wanted someone who was doing work, at a much lower level?
Thanks, TBH, i sympathised with the SMPS consultant level guy that was there...in over 4 yrs at the co, he had just done minor mods to a couple of boards.......he was working way beneath himself.
Thanks, i would agree.....thing is, if your doing literally nothing, and not likely to ever do anything.....then it kind of changes things a little. Better to do "something", and i believe you would agree.
That company didnt loose anything by me leaving, thats the main point.
Thanks, i must admit to having worked in some 43 or so different electronics companies