Re: "Sorry you're not the right fit" - After "all is fine" for 4 weeks

Subject: Re: "Sorry you're not the right fit" - After "all is fine" for 4 weeks
From: quills -at- airmail -dot- net
To: Yannia Vodrovich <coralfire -at- rocketmail -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:47:01 -0600

Yes, I have had a similar thing happen to me. I was hired by a very
major lending institution, they got bought last year after the
sub-prime debacle got in full swing.

I was hired in, the director I reported to and the person who was
nominally my line supervisor and the person for whom I was writing,
kept giving me favorable comments, and since they were part of the
reviewers said everything I was sending them was great.

After about 2 weeks, I had a very strange feeling about this. The
director was shunted off to do something else, and I then reported to
her boss.

The upshot of it all was that the Director was the one who wanted a
tech writer, her boss didn't. And from the moment the Director was no
longer there, I found that suddenly nothing that I had done was
adequate, and that they expected all new material to fill the content
of their internal site. The problem was there wasn't anything new
that could be written.

I did my best, and interviewed a new SME that was suddenly thrust up,
and continued writing. I told my headhunter that not all was right in
Denmark.

And indeed, within three weeks, I was let go. What was particularly
interesting is that my nominal line supervisor who had been sending
me responses on my work as great, changed her tune immediately that
the V.P. was in charge. So perhaps it was actually two people who
didn't want me there in the first place. You might have been caught
up in office politics just as I was.

Scott
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