Re: "Sorry you're not the right fit" - After "all is fine" for 4 weeks

[Yannia Vodrovich <coralfire -at- rocketmail -dot- com>]

Holy cow. Office politics. Similar to the other response. More and more it is sounding like that is what went on with me. It seems that they wanted someone else - that it had to do with that. Someone wanted me and someone didn't - or someone somewhere just wanted another person. Because I really can't see what I did.

I am thinking about my situation and it strikes me that it was the V.P. who was saying I needed to be there at 8:00 when the entire dept comes between 8:30 and 9:00. It is the kind of thing where you can "slide" in late after the probationary period - but that was never specified clearly. But as I am reading your post, it may be construed as, maybe the V.P. (because it was him who remarked about the coming in at 8:30 thing) maybe he was just nitpicking at me because he was the one who didn't want me there, when my immediate boss did. hmmm

Yeah. I think I got caught up in some weird office politics.

Well as someone else said - it sounds like an odd company, and that, in a weird way, it is a blessing that what happened happened - otherwise I would have ended up an android like all the rest of them

Thanks for writing. 

Y




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From: "quills -at- airmail -dot- net" <quills -at- airmail -dot- net>
To: Yannia Vodrovich <coralfire -at- rocketmail -dot- com>; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 6:47:01 PM
Subject: Re: "Sorry you're not the right fit" - After "all is fine" for 4 weeks

Yes, I have had a similar thing happen to me. I was hired by a very major lending institution, they got bought last year after the sub-prime debacle got in full swing.

I was hired in, the director I reported to and the person who was nominally my line supervisor and the person for whom I was writing, kept giving me favorable comments, and since they were part of the reviewers said everything I was sending them was great.

After about 2 weeks, I had a very strange feeling about this. The director was shunted off to do something else, and I then reported to her boss.

The upshot of it all was that the Director was the one who wanted a tech writer, her boss didn't. And from the moment the Director was no longer there, I found that suddenly nothing that I had done was adequate, and that they expected all new material to fill the content of their internal site. The problem was there wasn't anything new that could be written.

I did my best, and interviewed a new SME that was suddenly thrust up, and continued writing. I told my headhunter that not all was right in Denmark.

And indeed, within three weeks, I was let go. What was particularly interesting is that my nominal line supervisor who had been sending me responses on my work as great, changed her tune immediately that the V.P. was in charge. So perhaps it was actually two people who didn't want me there in the first place. You might have been caught up in office politics just as I was.

Scott



      
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