Three months ago I signed a six-month contract to be a project manager for 20 hours a week. Very early on I raised the concern that 20 hours per week was not enough to oversee two major clients and the internal marketing tasks. I brought this up on two separate occasions, and in both instances it was rejected. Last week in a meeting I was told that now the company agrees, and we need a full-time project manager. Except that they want the full-time project manager to be in market, and I am remote and out of state. So now the company wants me to reduce down to only 10 hours per week, and stay till the end of September, or whenever they hire someone, to finish out work for a specific client. They are pushing back on me setting a specific schedule, and essentially want flexible availability throughout the week while only logging 10 total hours.
So basically I told them no thanks, I will take either a buyout at 10ths for 4 weeks (2 weeks at original contract) or the 15 minimum hours in the contract, or I’m walking effective immediately. 15 years as a Project Manager and I’ve never had a company be so disconnected that they think it’s a good idea to tell an employee they’re right in there assessment, but they want someone else to take over, and then ask that person to accept less work and money while they search for a replacement with no timeline given.
Then I get an email requesting a meeting about this…at 2pm. My schedule is 9-1pm. Christ almighty lol