and another thing

[jaeclectic]

It just occurred to me when my mood started swinging down: It was the conversation with the engineering manager in which she told me that the Big Boss was being difficult about renewing my contract because he just doesn't want contractors hanging around -- the theory being that contractors should be brought in for well-defined pieces of work, finish them, and go. Which I understand in the abstract, I see the logic that if it's open-ended work, you should have an employee do it.

So she wanted me to revise my statement of work to make it sound more like it had fixed deliverables with quantified hours of labor attached.

To which my honest response is, fine, I'm doing work that you should find an employee to do. Because it's not well-defined, the deliverables change every couple of weeks, it doesn't really have an end in sight, it requires constantly re-evaluating the priorities and targets of opportunity.

And I've been doing a good job, and making myself useful, and giving Sun good value for money. And the project has made significant progress to which I have contributed substantially.

And if they wanted to hire me as an employee, I would definitely want to talk.

But meanwhile, I'm going to end up unemployed because of this guy's philosophy of management.


Funny how I go from that to thinking about being fat. How the mind works, such convolutions.