So the end of my contract with my current employer is rapidly approaching, just two months to go in fact. It will soon be time to look for a new position, usually at this point I reflect on what I have achieved or not as the case may be. So how does this one stack up, it has had it’s high and low points. The original task that I was hired to do was completed in the planned window, with an almost 100% hit on objectives and cost. From that point onwards there has been a gradual deterioration in communications and clearly stated objectives, it all started when the main (only) person in the IT department resigned.
I was asked to pick up the slack until a replacement could be put in place, I agreed to this so mostly I have myself to blame when it comes to the sense of frustration that I feel over the way that things have gone from that point onwards. The bulk of the work has been completed, the outstanding work is mostly dross – but there always seems to be a reason for not doing it. Hence the “Ah but…!” feelings about the last part of the job. Finally today I was told that a system that was to be the last one decommissioned will now run for an other three months, this will take it three months past the end of my contract.
I don’t think that there will be an extension to the contract, I could be wrong but I doubt it. I could stay a short while, but in truth I don’t see it making any difference, especially when it comes to achieving the desired objectives. If anyone was to ask me why this contact didn’t complete on time, I’d have to say that there was a bit of grit stuck in the foo-foo valve. It would be just as valid a reason as any other, well I think it is any way. It just seems that there is an all pervasive, couldn’t give a toss attitude around the workplace at the moment – like a bit of grit is stuck in every foo-foo valve. So as the title says, “Grit, like sand gets everywhere!” – at least that’s how it feels.