Re: "Sorry you're not the right fit" - After "all is fine" for 4 weeks

[quills -at- airmail -dot- net]

Yes, I have had a similar thing happen to me. I was hired by a very 
major lending institution, they got bought last year after the 
sub-prime debacle got in full swing.

I was hired in, the director I reported to and the person who was 
nominally my line supervisor and the person for whom I was writing, 
kept giving me favorable comments, and since they were part of the 
reviewers said everything I was sending them was great.

After about 2 weeks, I had a very strange feeling about this. The 
director was shunted off to do something else, and I then reported to 
her boss.

The upshot of it all was that the Director was the one who wanted a 
tech writer, her boss didn't. And from the moment the Director was no 
longer there, I found that suddenly nothing that I had done was 
adequate, and that they expected all new material to fill the content 
of their internal site. The problem was there wasn't anything new 
that could be written.

I did my best, and interviewed a new SME that was suddenly thrust up, 
and continued writing. I told my headhunter that not all was right in 
Denmark.

And indeed, within three weeks, I was let go. What was particularly 
interesting is that my nominal line supervisor who had been sending 
me responses on my work as great, changed her tune immediately that 
the V.P. was in charge. So perhaps it was actually two people who 
didn't want me there in the first place. You might have been caught 
up in office politics just as I was.

Scott
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