Bad to Worse
Feb. 2nd, 2004 09:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosI have been caught in a beaurocratic and emotional nightmare here at work.
When the new director told me that he was transitioning me to Business Ops, he didn't think about the paperwork involved with Pace, my temp agency. Which under ordinary circumstances wouldn't be a big deal. Someone would submit a notice saying that I was now working under a different billing code, and that would be that.
But the company I'm temping for is transitioning to an arrangement with Co-V which will be acting as the contractor manager vendor, a kind of umbrella for all the other contracting agencies. This system is not yet in place -- but the Co-V rep on-site is telling the person I'm supposed to be going to work for that I have to cancel my relationship with Pace and sign on with them. They are arguing that my previous assignment is over, and all new assignments go through them.
My Pace rep is telling me that this isn't true, because a) the contractor management system isn't in place yet, and b) even if it was, Pace is going to be part of it, and c) this isn't a brand new assignment, it's a direct result of what I'm doing now. She's telling me that if we can't this resolved, she wants me to take my things and go home.
I am hopeful that this will all be resolved in the next hour or so, that the Co-V rep will have his nose slapped (since I was working on the Co-V project, I *know* that this isn't how it's supposed to work, even if my rep hadn't said as much), and that the paperwork with Pace will be processed, and we can all get on with our jobs.
What complicates things is the emotional attachments I have to the people here where I've been temping and to my agency rep. I can't just sit back and be stoic about it.
The new director is on vacation now, of course, and can't be reached for help sorting things out.
The good news is that the man who has been my supervisor for the past three months just got into the office and I've told him the whole story. He's on my side and is taking immediate steps to help straighten this all out.
The person at fault in this whole mess seems to be the Co-V guy, whose only interest is in getting more assets for his company. (OK, can't blame him for that. I'm just a line item to him.) Everyone else is doing what they think best, from their own perspective. No one is trying to screw me over -- but I'm feeling bruised and ill-used at the moment.
When the new director told me that he was transitioning me to Business Ops, he didn't think about the paperwork involved with Pace, my temp agency. Which under ordinary circumstances wouldn't be a big deal. Someone would submit a notice saying that I was now working under a different billing code, and that would be that.
But the company I'm temping for is transitioning to an arrangement with Co-V which will be acting as the contractor manager vendor, a kind of umbrella for all the other contracting agencies. This system is not yet in place -- but the Co-V rep on-site is telling the person I'm supposed to be going to work for that I have to cancel my relationship with Pace and sign on with them. They are arguing that my previous assignment is over, and all new assignments go through them.
My Pace rep is telling me that this isn't true, because a) the contractor management system isn't in place yet, and b) even if it was, Pace is going to be part of it, and c) this isn't a brand new assignment, it's a direct result of what I'm doing now. She's telling me that if we can't this resolved, she wants me to take my things and go home.
I am hopeful that this will all be resolved in the next hour or so, that the Co-V rep will have his nose slapped (since I was working on the Co-V project, I *know* that this isn't how it's supposed to work, even if my rep hadn't said as much), and that the paperwork with Pace will be processed, and we can all get on with our jobs.
What complicates things is the emotional attachments I have to the people here where I've been temping and to my agency rep. I can't just sit back and be stoic about it.
The new director is on vacation now, of course, and can't be reached for help sorting things out.
The good news is that the man who has been my supervisor for the past three months just got into the office and I've told him the whole story. He's on my side and is taking immediate steps to help straighten this all out.
The person at fault in this whole mess seems to be the Co-V guy, whose only interest is in getting more assets for his company. (OK, can't blame him for that. I'm just a line item to him.) Everyone else is doing what they think best, from their own perspective. No one is trying to screw me over -- but I'm feeling bruised and ill-used at the moment.
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Date: 2004-02-02 12:21 pm (UTC)