In an extremely unexpected development, Lisa and I were asked to interview a replacement HelpDesk\/FoxPro person today. It turns out that the contractor guy that we thought was a shoe-in for a permanent position as the resident company FoxPro developer at WonkaTech, has quit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was certainly acting like he was an employee rather than “just” a contractor. I think I’ve written before about the “tiers of worker superiority” that exists at WonkaTech. I’m sure it’s not a unique thing, but we work in an IT department where contractors are the lowest of the low… and employees tend to “lord it” over the contractors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyway, this guy – let’s call him “Dave” – was doing a lot of meetings and posturing but not much actual work, which is always frustrating when they’re supposed to be looking after certain projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyway, Lisa and are on vacation for nearly 3 weeks shortly, so it was a bit of a last-minute panic to check out this new candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It turns out that she’s fine, kind of self-taught but smart and keen and we think she’ll do just fine if she gets the right kind of mentoring. We’ll have about 4 days next week to kick start her into the job, if Dave doesn’t get in the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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