RE: Re: What to do about a recommendation?

["Poshedly, Ken" <PoshedlyK -at- polysius -dot- com>]

AMEN!!!! (See Dori Green's follow-up below Gene's comment.)

Assuming the unknown contractor who is the subject of this l-o-n-g
thread has a list of previous clients - why would the agency even place
this writer?

Either:

1. (Doubtful) NONE of the previous clients let on to the agency that he
is a problem-child.
OR
2. (More likely) This particular job was just a bad fit at this
particular time.

You know, one has to wonder if he was always so argumentative or if
there were some outside problems that resulted in some nasty mood
swings. For instance, anybody here been through a divorce? That'll hit
you for a loop. 

And NO amount of preaching that we should not bring our troubles to work
with us means a hill of beans because we are ALL human (well, most of us
anyway). We can try to keep our feelings bottled up, but it'll come out
another way - possibly like the tech writer at the center of this
discussion.

We are NOT cogs on a wheel or machine parts stamped out on a production
line or computers which operate strictly as programmed.

Again, ALL of this is conjecture because with the exception of the
client, none of us was present during the tenure of the writer.

-- Kenpo 



-----Original Message-----
From: techwr-l-bounces+poshedlyk=polysius -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
[mailto:techwr-l-bounces+poshedlyk=polysius -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On
Behalf Of Dori Green
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:37 AM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: Re: What to do about a recommendation?

Gene Kim=Eng wrote:

"conducting that honest end-of-contract
review should put an end to any desire the contractor may have for
references."

**************

Or any desire to work for this company again.

Failure to deal with a problem directly and immediately is plain old
sloppy human resource management.  The issue here is not that the
contractor's work or person is sloppy and doesn't fit -- contractors are
human resources and deserve the same management and direction that
"real" employees receive even if it might need to be filtered through an
agency.

If asked "would you hire this person again", an honest (and legal)
answer at this point would be "if we have a project where they would be
a good fit, of course we would."  If your back was against the wall and
they were the only candidate, you would welcome them back and use their
skills until you didn't need them any more, and either make do or deal
with the problems that came up on the first run.

Dori Green
Technical Writer, QMS Project
Associated Brands, Inc.

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