Today we switched from occasionally having a rush project interspersed with days of doing nothing to working on another project entirely. We are still employed at the same agency, working with the same law firms for the same client, but now we are working on an entirely unrelated project. This, apparently, is to keep us busy until we might -- or might not -- be needed to put out fires on the original project. Basically, this is an effort to keep us around in case we are needed.
There are indications that the effort is not working. We got called into a meeting this morning to let us know what we would be working on. There was substantive stuff (how to do what we would be doing) but there also was procedural stuff (how many hours a week, work window, etc.). It was the second batch of information where they started losing people. We now are capped at 40 hours a week, which means this is officially no better than any other project in town. Anything that offers more than 40 is automatically a better project and people will leave. The guy next to me quit already, just said fuck it. We've been told we probably will go back to overtime later once this little detour is over, but who knows? Plus, they are insisting that we do our 40 hours over 5 days, Monday through Friday, and be there from 9 am to 4:30 pm each day. This is just stupid. Even with the reduced hours window, folks could do 9.5 hours per day through Thursday, then do a very short Friday -- or even blow it off, since it would only be two hours. Those options were officially nixed this morning. I, for one, plan to ignore that directive. I'll be working four days. No point in incurring increased commuting costs for less money, after all.
Ultimately, I guess we'll have to wait and see if this project remains viable. But the law firm did themselves no favors today. The swordfish might be fixing to swim somewhere else.
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