Work ...

[puckrobin]

My contract is not being renewed, and so I'll be out on the street in a couple weeks. I'm preparing a list of my duties -- currently I'm up to 27 things, along with a couple paragraphs explaining why things would have gone hideously wrong if there hadn't been one person overseeing various requests.

It occurs to me that the proper time for this shouldn't have been to help the people letting me go. I should have created this list back when they were last looking at my salary.

Live and learn. I'm usually terrible at asserting my rights. I feel somewhat proud, but also like a terrible chump.

Allen

Comments

[rusty-armour.livejournal.com]

Allen, I'm so sorry that your contract wasn't renewed. I know you were hoping to find another job, but obviously it's better to look when you're still employed. I know this is probably the last thing you want to hear right now, but maybe this is a blessing in disguise -- losing this particular job not unemployment itself, of course. Would you be able to get anything through that temp agency to tide you over until you can find something more permanent and satisfying?

I'm also terrible at asserting my rights, so I can definitely sympathize. However, I think it's great that you're preparing a list (a long one by the sounds of it) of your duties, along with an explanation of why your job is important. You're being pro-active and not taking this lying down.

[sorne.livejournal.com]

Ah bummer dude *hugs* Make that list of duties into a CV and get yourself out into the job market (we hates it, precious), who knows what may be waiting round the corner. (Having only had my contract renewed till January, I'm up to speed with all the necessary comfortable-rut-abandoning rhetoric).

[puckrobin.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Sorne. Sorry that your own job isn't that secure either.

The best of my 29 duties are on my resume -- along with the more complex things I've performed elsewhere. I fear working here has actually been somewhat detrimental career-wise.

But as I mentioned in the blog entry I posted scant minutes ago, leaving here isn't the worse thing in the world.

Allen