mmd8x28
01-19-2010, 04:58 PM
I guess being a contractor has it's goodies.
This day at work was absolutely horrible. Computer been here for a couple weeks.. I diagnosed it as a bad motherboard. I tested the CPU, RAM, HD, power supply, even unplugging devices, and all running on test hardware.. Motherboard was DEAD.
Replacement comes in finally, and another tech took the computer. New motherboard, computer still won't work.. He tests the new motherboard as dead also.. I hear the boss telling him about "freakin techs can't diagnose correctly, so a good motherboard was thrown out, so and so dollars wasted". He was talking about me.. I was very outraged because I did everything I could, and it's NOT my damn fault if the replacement is shit too. Hell the tech even said the new board doesn't look new.
I tell another co-worker I was stressed today, because he noticed I was REALLY overwhelmed.. He told my boss (as he was likely worried, it's a good gesture on his part to make sure I'm ok). Boss called me not that long ago asking why, and I flat out told him why I was upset and stressed. He says I shouldn't be a tech (is that even mature?) and that we'll talk about this tomorrow. NEVER in my life as a computer tech have I ever had a boss complain about my work. I was always glorified and given raises because I did such a good work.
I'll likely be loosing my job tomorrow, because I'm going to tell him flat out, I did everything I could, nothing more could be done, but to talk behind my back like that is not tolerated by me.. My services are offered to him, and to say that really pisses me off.
But being a contractor? He's just a client to me. I can write him off. If I was an employee however, then that'd be a different story with me trying hard to keep the job.
Will I loose my unemployment? It actually doesn't appear so, because it was PART TIME..
In all honesty, I'd love to keep this job, and hopefully he'll understand his actions are wrong... One can only hope though..
This day at work was absolutely horrible. Computer been here for a couple weeks.. I diagnosed it as a bad motherboard. I tested the CPU, RAM, HD, power supply, even unplugging devices, and all running on test hardware.. Motherboard was DEAD.
Replacement comes in finally, and another tech took the computer. New motherboard, computer still won't work.. He tests the new motherboard as dead also.. I hear the boss telling him about "freakin techs can't diagnose correctly, so a good motherboard was thrown out, so and so dollars wasted". He was talking about me.. I was very outraged because I did everything I could, and it's NOT my damn fault if the replacement is shit too. Hell the tech even said the new board doesn't look new.
I tell another co-worker I was stressed today, because he noticed I was REALLY overwhelmed.. He told my boss (as he was likely worried, it's a good gesture on his part to make sure I'm ok). Boss called me not that long ago asking why, and I flat out told him why I was upset and stressed. He says I shouldn't be a tech (is that even mature?) and that we'll talk about this tomorrow. NEVER in my life as a computer tech have I ever had a boss complain about my work. I was always glorified and given raises because I did such a good work.
I'll likely be loosing my job tomorrow, because I'm going to tell him flat out, I did everything I could, nothing more could be done, but to talk behind my back like that is not tolerated by me.. My services are offered to him, and to say that really pisses me off.
But being a contractor? He's just a client to me. I can write him off. If I was an employee however, then that'd be a different story with me trying hard to keep the job.
Will I loose my unemployment? It actually doesn't appear so, because it was PART TIME..
In all honesty, I'd love to keep this job, and hopefully he'll understand his actions are wrong... One can only hope though..