Fired/Laid Off Again
Well, my contract at the cruise line company is ending today. I'm sure why but I will be talking to my manager in about a half hour. I'll keep you posted. It was a good month, i thought.
An update: I still had access to my work email so I wrote an email to my boss's boss telling him that I regretted that I would not be working with him in the future. I really felt a connection with him during our brief conversations and I wanted to explore that. I really think he enjoyed (and I'm sorry, I'm not being sexist) having another male in the weekly sync-up meetings. I also sent an email to the IT people thanking them for their hard work resolving a bunch of issues that I was experiencing. I'm sure my email access will be shut down on Monday but I wanted to send those messages to them. Am I trying to undermine my manager's decision to cut me loose? Hmmmm.....what do you think?
And I'm going to follow my own advice and not even list this job on my resume. It was only for 4 weeks. Pfft.
Amanda, Mariah, all of you....I appreciate your words and thoughts at this time. I'm back home now and just still stunned. It was almost as if my manager was angry at me in our last meeting. At least cold as ice!
I was working this morning and around 9:30, I get an email from my agency asking for me to call them around noon. Now, there's no way I'm waiting until noon to get bad news. So I called them and my recruiter told me the bad news. She didn't know the whys but we would talk again on Monday. All she knew is that my manager wanted to close this contract.
OK...so I hang up the phone, go back to my cube and there's an email from my manager: "I understand you spoke with your agency. Let's meet in my office in a half hour to follow-up."
So we meet up, I tell her I'm working on one project, where it stands....And she is 180 degrees from how she acted towards me during my first week there. Almost angry. I had the option of leaving at noon so I took it.
So.....Sing it, Foreigner! This is for you, Lindsay Cromwell!!!!!
Will they, at least, give u a positive reference ? So u can find another job? If so, maybe there's a better job waiting for u somewhere.
Jim, I'm so sorry to hear this. It's so weird that she wouldn't give you details - sounds extremely frustrating. We'll 100% be here for you for your job search - just tell us what you're looking for and we'll help. Also, take some time for yourself this weekend - losing a job is tough, so definitely don't beat yourself up if you need to grieve a bit. We're still in your corner, Jim!
Dude that's rough. I know what that's like. Super hard not to take it personally I know. From what I've seen here you definitely have a ton to offer and another place will be lucky to have you!
bummer Jim.. sorry to hear
@Mariah I hope you're right. It's only been three days and already it feels like three months. I've had plenty of calls from recruiters (most of them about the same position which I've been submitted to). But I keep thinking there must have been something I was doing that just made my manager more and more upset. And it must be some kind of flaw that I'm not aware of.