Thanks, but I wish I would have known this going in. We were on a 3 year fixed price contract with specific deliverables for the Web center for each quarter. I was already working on FY200301 tasks, and making great headway. If I had known that by screwing up badly on everything I could have kept my job, I would have scrapped the plan and started in on my own stuff.
Today I was supposed to be putting my XML Flash newsticker into test on IIS and SQL Server! I spent weeks working out the data feed the data ops board! I hate to say it, but I really miss what I was doing... M -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 2:21 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Laid Off Ben, you didn't read the rest of the post. It explains itself. "<snip> my contractual job with the government <snip>" As a recovering defense contractor, it makes perfect sense to me. :) Sorry about it anyway, Jerry Johnson >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/29/02 02:12PM >>> Bummer! Let me see if I have this right: You were doing a good job, so you got laid off, so they could bring in cs people to take care of the problems from the folks who did a bad job? This is called "fair"?? *Not*. -Ben > On Friday, my contractual job with the government ended in a blaze of... > well, it wasn't glory, that's for sure! > > I was called off site for an important meeting. Everyone was smiling, which > is always a bad sign with defense contractors. > > One of the groups I worked with 'required additional staffing' and 'demand > for enhancements to the Web site has gone down' since I started were the > reasons they cited. In other words, I was doing my job well and others on > the contract were not pulling their weight. In order to make their lives > easier, they laid me off and hired more people for client support. > > And I was doing so well... *gnashes teeth, pulls on hair, curses cruel fate* > > On the other hand, I have some excellent references. Anybody know of > anything in the DC area for someone skilled in Flash Actionscript / Cold > Fusion / XML / SQL Server / Photoshop? > > M > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
