A few year before I retired, I was sent to a remote project (Army Corps of Engineers) that had gone bad. It was behind schedule, over budget and there were quality problems. I was to replace the man in charge and try to repair the damage. I often served as a trouble-shooter for projects in trouble.
The kicker was the engineer in charge had not told the man I was replacing that this was going to happen. The first he knew about it was when I walked in the door. He thought I was just going to do a one-day inspection.
I thought that was a pretty cold thing to do. Didn't make it easy on me either because the fellow I was relieving of his duty, after getting confirmation over the phone, just took off for the nearest bar and I had to start from scratch.
Ever had a cold shot like that from your boss?
2007-02-03 17:20:18 · 3 answers · asked by Gaspode 7 in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
He was not fired, and probably couldn't have done much more to make things worse. The Job was on a fast-track to legal action.
As it turned out, I was able to get the job up to the standards required, and completed ahead of schedule and under budget, primarily by very selective resource-loading in the critical areas.
The supervising engineer was decorated for the final result.
2007-02-03 17:57:59 · update #1
if your in the army then tuff. he was doing a bad job thats his fault. he should be lucky they dont send him to the brig. and it sounds like you really cant do any worse.
2007-02-03 17:35:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yep,
An old boss/friend of mine had moved to a couple different companies and taken me along when he changed companies, well I got tired of changing jobs every 2 years so I took a job at a Waste water plant and didn’t like it to well. Been there almost 4 years and he had contacted me every year or so asking if I needed a job. Well this time I said what ya got. He said oh one of our branches needs some help, be there next Monday morning and I'll have someone show you the ropes. Well I quit my job jumped in the truck loaded up the camper and drove 1200 miles to the "new" job. I arrived at 7:30 am and bout 8am a technician drove up unlocked the door gave me a key and drove off.
They had fired the whole group of people the week before 5 of them, the secretary, the outside salesman, the Operations manager, general manager, and Service manager. They had ran the business into the ground by fighting between themselves dropped from 4 mil a year to 234K in bout 2 years.
Well all is well but I didn't know a thing about this business. It was an industrial Heat treating and non destructive inspection (x-ray) company. Found a list of all the employees 4 service techs and had a meeting to find out what was going on. I spent the first 3 weeks reading and going out in the field with the tech forwarding the phones to my cell, to learn then attacked each problem I had to deal with, biggest was to reaffirm the large oil companies that were the main life blood that we were viable and rebuild the trust.
In the 14 months I was there, with the help of 2 good tech's that worked hard (but I paid them well) we went from the 234k to 1.2 mil before the 50 yo parent company crumbled and closed down my branch and many others,
I figured out with all the time I put in (on salary) 14 hours a day 7 days a week I made bout $7ph, I told my boss the district manager this after I'd been there a couple months he said "yep I got a good deal" Oh and he moved on to another company and left me there, He had a insight on what was happening and jumped ship.
About a year after the demise of the company I had moved back to a little town and took a job as a mechanic so I could be close to my aging Parents and kids and grand kids. He contacted me again had this great job for me,,,,,,,, well I stayed here and now have opened my own Machine and fabrication shop. Don’t make much money but I know where I'm going to be next year.
I spend time with my parents everyday and I get to watch my grand kids grow I couldn't be richer.
2007-02-04 02:13:13 · answer #2 · answered by S h 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As cold as it seems, sometimes it is necessary. When a person is not leaving their employment on good terms (and who has ever been fired on good terms?), there is the possibility that they will inflict as much damage as they can on the company. If he had been given two weeks notice that he was getting fired, he could further delay the work or embezzle funds. And do you really think anyone would go out of their way to make things easier for their replacement if they had advance notice they were being replaced?
2007-02-04 01:34:10 · answer #3 · answered by Brian G 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋