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Gene's right. I have sat on both sides of the desk (not at the same time, however :-) and can tell you how infuriating it is to have your manager or your manager's manager or even the finance department decide when a new hire can begin, contractor or staff writer and then change his or her mind AND then change it again. Sometimes it's a matter of manipulating the bottom line to make year-end or some other quarter look better than it actually is.
Try not to take it personally although I certainly understanding needing the money.
Candis L Condo
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From: techwr-l-bounces+ccondo=c-cor -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com on behalf of Gene Kim-Eng
Sent: Sat 12/16/2006 2:04 PM
To: Richard Lewis; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Your Start Date Ever Changed?
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
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From: "Richard Lewis" <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
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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