I think that was about six weeks flat... And actually that was about five weeks too much as it happens. Last Friday I resigned and today (Monday) I am sitting at home waiting for them to ring me about how to play out my last week. Hopefully they will just leave me alone, but I suspect I will have to do a couple of days work from home to tidy up some loose ends.
Steph reminded me that I said on my second day back that I didn;t think it was a job for me. I am at my best when I am able to absorb myself in a problem for a while - while I am very quick intellectually often it takes me repeated attempts, approaching something from a few angles, before I can find a solution.
So no surprises that I write the way I do: Short bursts on something, then let it sit for a month (or year) then come back to, see anew and blitz it again.
The other problem with this job was that some of the 'client handling' was just a bit much for me. I have no problem 'selling' the benefits of a design or approach, but having to convince hard-nosed, ignorant, aggressive f**kheads that just maybe I knew more about web design and marketting than them was somewhat tedious. And I wasted so much time preparing things purely for their sign off that I knew they weren't even reading. Well, that company deserves the receivership that they are not so far from!
Some of the internal problems were inevitable given that the company had jumped radically in numbers, and I was expecting some, but I was surprised at how poor the organisation and structure was. They were grappling with the idea of project management and hadn't really got it sorted yet. I had the feeling the new head of Project Management had been told that things must ALWAYS be on time, on scope and on budget. And as anyone with a third of a brain knows, this is generally not how it rolls in the real world. And some costings had just been picked out of the air (or out of the nearest arse) and then we had to retrospectively work to them.
None of this is any great surprise, but the 'deal breaker' was that I need to be behind something that makes sense ethically. Blow the money.
So now I have no idea what's next. Hopefully I little more writing... maybe some freelancing...
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