[Saraste]

Originally Posted by fulltritty

It's look more and more that I may have to furlough two of my employees. We had a disaster of a financial meeting this afternoon. The new Program Director is a total disaster. He wants me to have meetings with our low level Government customers (people who are technical IT workers who have no idea how contracts or financing work) and discuss the funding issues with them on how it is the Government's fault on why they will be losing their contractors if they don't push for more funding. That's His job as the PM. My previous boss was flabbergasted about that when I told him on the phone.

Since it looks like there is a 95% chance one of my better employees will be getting furloughed tomorrow and he off, I made the decision to sit him down and explain everything to him. I didn't want him to be home on labor day weekend, doing his time card, and seeing an e-mail from a stranger that he was furloughed and wouldn't be coming back to work on Tuesday. Sucks when you have to do that to a good employee knowing you probably won't have him around anymore as he will probably go out and get another job.

We'll see tomorrow if this new guy can make a decision on anything. We will also be short 3 days f funding on another delivery order and instead of having everyone take 3 days of leave throughout the month, he wants to immediately cut one of of subcontractors so we have no system administration ability on a critical system half of the month each month until we end this Blue/Gold COVID stuff.

Are you sure you and your peeps aren't being set up to fail?