Why should you be fired from your job?I spent three years "working" in the Ministry of Agriculture carefully crafting projectiles out of folded paper and drawing pins that I would then fire at colleagues with an elastic band. On discovering I'd been conducting all-out warfare when I should really have been in a field counting cows, I was asked to "reconsider my career options" outside the service.
Why, then, should you be fired from your job?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 9 Aug 2007, 13:04)
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Not sure WHY my job existed.A previous employer took me on at an extortionate salary in an attempt to wean them off their dependence for outsourcing all their web development/maintenance to a very expensive company in London.
So, when a major project to revamp one of the company sites was on the horizon I was looking forward to a proper project (having by this point sat and done near nothing for 4 months).
SO when the London company quoted nearly £200k for the job (which for ludicrous reasons had a budget of £120k) I thought it was a done deal and put forward a proposal to do it all in house. I even got competitive quotes below £60k to outsource elsewhere.
Imagine my joy when they instead slashed the spec/requirements to get the London company to be able to lower their quote to the required £120k. Thus still leaving me with f*ck all to do. you hire an experienced developer but outsource your development...? Huh?
SO, I played solitaire for another 4 months and the day after my review (where my boss confessed concerns I might leave, but was now happy I was here to stay) I put my notice in.
I'd done bugger all, played games and not been offered any tasks that matched what I was skilled or employed to do.
I suppose you might say I sacked my employer but really I'd have gone nuts if I sat there much longer.
(, Tue 14 Aug 2007, 15:59, Reply)
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