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The client decided to lodge a complaint against me, which is usually when I quit anyways. In this particular scenario, they told me to make a small sample project, but then complained the sample project wasn't quite what they were looking for. No big deal I thought, but now the second contractor (it's like a chain of contractors and vendors all stealing money) is annoyed they got a complaint. The weird thing is I've only been working here for like a week, so i barely know how all the systems work, and yet Im expected to act as a seasoned veteran in the company.

The client decided to lodge a complaint against me, which is usually when I quit anyways. In this particular scenario, they told me to make a small sample project, but then complained the sample project wasn't quite what they were looking for. No big deal I thought, but now the second contractor (it's like a chain of contractors and vendors all stealing money) is annoyed they got a complaint. The weird thing is I've only been working here for like a week, so i barely know how all the systems work, and yet Im expected to act as a seasoned veteran in the company.

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[–] [deleted] • 5 pts

My experience is that you can never trust anyone. Whenever something goes wrong (in this case a complaint), anyone and everyone is willing to throw you under the bus. Even people who you thought were friends, people you thought you could trust, will leave you holding the hot potato without a second thought.

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Generally. I used to manage an I.T. team; if anyone complained about my team I would go on the offensive. Not everyone is a fucking coward that will throw people under the bus; I always took care of mine.

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I have over 20 years of work experience in the IT and engineering fields, and I have NEVER had a manger do anything remotely similar to that.

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To put this in perspective, they are making us use personal machines, only after their compliance told them that was a fuck no did they change their minds. Half the software to connect simply doesnt work, the VPN sucks and drops connections all the time, on top of having plaguing bugs (it fails and pings your phone 10 times over before you destroy it in the task manager), the code base is all over the place, with random projects here and there. But hey, im a bigot for not loving their style

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Gotta love diversity hiring. Everything is falling apart.

It'll take awhile, but for future reference look to SA and Johannesburg, and for even further future reference look to Zimbabwe.

That will be our future unless we stop it.

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Reminds me when I worked at this one company and the communications manager would do deployments. The first time I was on, I had to lead the fucking deployment because the manager (who was a woman) couldnt be fucked to do her job

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I can not speak for your industry but if I hire someone I expect them to be able to do the job and not lie about what they can do. I get not knowing all the ins and outs but when I hear complaint normally it means someone lied about their abilities.

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Well I didn't lie, I simply stated this is what I know, etc. The vendor who dumped us on the client has already been having problems due to timing issues, budgets, and the likes, so i think the client is getting frustrated so much time has been wasted

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Have you explained this to the employer?

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It's only a job and they treat you like shit. Stop giving a fuck and stressing over it, just stay there until something better comes along.

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Whatever happened to just telling people about problems? Now it seems like there are hundreds of layers of bullshit involved

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"How is the bird supposed to go into the bird house when there is no hole?"