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| Friday, October 06, 2006 |
| Mr Ata and the New Job. |
Mr Ata is losing his job! Hooray!
He finishes at the end of October. The 27th, to be exact. In an effort to make his last month as profitable as possible, he has volunteered to do on-call every week for until he finishes. Please note that he did not consult with Ata about this. Furthermore, Ata is working full-time from next week until the end of the month, so it may be that one of us moves into the Spare Room if he gets lots of calls. Mr Ata may be getting paid to be woken every hour throughout the night, but Ata is not.
As the redundancy means we are unlikely to go away for holidays in December as planned, Ata has harrassed Mr Ata into agreeing that he will take a couple of weeks off between finishing his current job and beginning a new one. He has two job offers at present - one doing much the same work he has been doing, but in-house for his current client, the other with some mates of his at a smaller firm. This is the quandary - the current client will probably pay more, as Mr Ata holds all the specialised knowledge they need due to his having worked with that system for almost 10 years. On the other hand, his mates are likely to offer a much more pleasant working environment and opportunities to learn new systems and skills. Mr Ata is not keen to go to work for his current client - after all, he USED to work in-house for them until they outsourced their IT support. And they are Difficult. Very Very Difficult. One of his workmates has suggested that Mr Ata agree to work for them provided they agree to a ridiculously high daily rate. The nominated figure is amounts to almost twice the maximum that a UNIX systems person in Adelaide might expect, so is patently laughable. On the other hand, given that he doesn't want to work for them, Ata feels he might as well ask for it - if they're desperate enough to pay it, we could pay down most of our mortgage before Mr Ata has an exhaustive breakdown. And if they won't pay it, he gets to work with the people he wants to work with, so he wins anyway. |
posted by Ata @ 11:08 am  |
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