That Was Fun

Now that I know what I’m doing and the instructions are clarified and the miscommunications have done their worst, I will be going back to the site where I was doing a theoretical 2.08 hours - plus red tape time that easily doubles that - bit of contract work.  At 4:00 AM, when people will be there who know the POS system and aren’t required by company policy to turn into pumpkins at a set time.

I figure it should, in fact, only take a couple more hours to do the other 94% of the work.  And a little more red tape time.  After gas, it’ll be somewhere south of $20 an hour.

While this may be all the experience with the particular source of work that I will ever want, pleasant as the upstream experience has been in large part, I hope I will have made the most for them of a situation that was messed up before I ever accepted the task.  Someone went there Thursday and, whatever the reason, never even started the project.  Mine was the “please, someone, take this work” that was to save someone’s bacon by getting it done before Monday, and I thought the 4 AM thing covered the manager who needed to leave and couldn’t help had she stayed, getting it actually done without anyone losing their job, and making it possible for me to have someone there who could and would actually do what needed to be done working with me by someone in authority on the site.

There’s just much to be said for the problems generated by a company hiring a vendor hiring a staffing agency hiring a staffing agency hiring a warm body.  I should probably get to sleep ASAP, since I got way too little last night.  Even tumbling out of bed and driving there will mean being up by 3:30.  I’m ready to collapse already.

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