Re: Your Start Date Ever Changed?

[Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Gene:
   
  Could be.  Thanks for your perspective.   
   
  Richard Lewis
   
  Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
  I think you're giving these people credit for more deviousness
than they probably deserve. Remember, they're just managers.

More likely someone wanted to get a writer onboard "ASAP,"
then discovered that most of the document-critical SMEs
had put in to take time off the last half of December. Here in
silicon valley the annual skier migration to Tahoe-Donner
began a couple of days ago.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Lewis" 
To: 
Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 10:56 AM
Subject: Your Start Date Ever Changed?


> Hi all:
>
> Has your start date for a contract assignment ever been delayed, and 
> you felt funny about it? Such just happened to me; my start date was 
> just delayed from mid Dec to Jan 2.
>
> Let me play devil's advocate: One might think that they knew all 
> along that the start date was Jan 2, but, they lied and gave me the 
> earlier start date in an attempt to knock me out of job searching 
> weeks before the actual start date. After all at this point, I have 
> already emotionally committed to the job and, as the holidays are now 
> upon us, why not just take it easy until Jan 2.



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