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Contract gig AKA Trainwreck

Not sure if this can be posted here so Mods please let me know or delete it. So I've been job hunting in my field and was asked by one of the contract agencies if I wanted a short-term contract (it got me out of the house and socializing). The main player in the contract has a project with a major hospital provider in my area, this has to do site surveys, ensure accuracy, and accountability, and update the documentation so that it could move forward with the hardware deployment. My first impression of this particular company was less than stellar based on being late, apparently, they all had delayed flights because they didn't have the apps on their phone (their excuse). So the project is now a day late (not knowing it was over a year late), followed by one person being moved to a different job, and his…


Not sure if this can be posted here so Mods please let me know or delete it. So I've been job hunting in my field and was asked by one of the contract agencies if I wanted a short-term contract (it got me out of the house and socializing). The main player in the contract has a project with a major hospital provider in my area, this has to do site surveys, ensure accuracy, and accountability, and update the documentation so that it could move forward with the hardware deployment.

My first impression of this particular company was less than stellar based on being late, apparently, they all had delayed flights because they didn't have the apps on their phone (their excuse). So the project is now a day late (not knowing it was over a year late), followed by one person being moved to a different job, and his replacement lacks the motivation, and drive to work on his responsibilities so this impacts everyone else on the project that's been contracted. Creating a snowball effect.

The next several weeks they are always late to the job site, documentation has incorrect information, they are not communicating with their customer, and the IT Director stops by and chews the PM out who is ignoring him (The Product Manager won't get off the meeting which is another story) on deployment night.

Rinse and repeat a second time at another work site for deployment, where everything that could go wrong did go wrong that night from software crashing, to fax machines not processing orders, and you list it, this happened. This company has no soft skills, nothing like being hunted down by not just the head nurse, but the Project Coordinator for this health care that night because of the above. So I have to spend over 1/2 hour calming everyone down because they know I will answer their questions to the best of my ability and listen to them vent while providing some semblance of direction.

I found out yesterday that they were removed from the project that they had bid on because of (communication, delays of over a year, inappropriate behavior as seen by their customer (aka going off on people in the halls, nuclear meltdowns during deployment in high traffic spaces), not having devices working, along with conflicting orders to the contractors)

Sometimes being part of the train wreck gives you a business understanding of what not to do in a project, this was that project.

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