Two of us were placed there from the temp agency. One day our supervisor told us that she didn't have anything else to do that day, and sent us home. She just told us to have a good afternoon off work and she'd see me in the morning. I talked to the other worker, and we agreed that we would both call the agency to inquire - we were contracted for 40 hours/week.
When I called I found out that the employer had called the agency and termed our contract, as the project on which we were working was finished. A few days later someone else at the company who had seen me working wanted my help in their department. So I went in, and the other guy had just kept going back and clocking in and hanging out around the office -- and they kept paying him.
I thought the people at that company must have been really dull.
Today this happened to me - a contracted "employee" finished his time here yesterday. Today he was super early for work. Was he trying to do the same thing? How do you tell someone that they don't work for you anymore? I even talked to him about this last week. Awkward!
I must say, Jon, your blogs are some of the most interesting (?) that I read. It must be the Canadian perspective. :-)
Just wanted to say thanks to you and Kelly for being such good friends to Jen and Dave.
See you this fall.
By the way, Jon, are you still doing the 180 website? I like the new look.
Hi Pat,
I'm not sure being Canadian is the trick... I think I'm just a little... "interesting (?)" :)
I am still helping with the 180 website. I don't particularly like where it is now, but the website is somewhat on a sabbatical until it recuperates after a summer break.
I'd really like to add a lot of multi-media and community stuff to it rather than just have a 1-page information page. I think maybe we should combine the ideas and have the front page be information, and inside be more. We'll see.
Anyway, thanks for the comments!
Oh! And.. Jen and Dave are great people. Thank you for having them.