In the very odd work of engineering contracting, I work for one company (A) who in turn rents me out to a different, competing company (B). At Company B I work on a team of half a dozen people, some of whom work for B and some from other companies like mine (C, D
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This sucks.
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As I say below, it's not entirely E's fault: they had incomplete information when they submitted their proposal. But pretty much everyone -- including the folks on contract X -- wishes that E had gotten their act together as soon as they realized they were in over their head.
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I've been watching it happen to me for the past three years as if it's been happening to something else. The funny thing is that it's still "engineering stuff" from one point of view---just your tools and systems have changed.
Good luck.
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It's not TOTALLY their fault. But still, nobody's happy with how it's going.
It's not precisely new skills that I'm learning -- it's just that I'm getting a fast-and-furious refresher in all the new stuff I learned a couple years ago that I haven't thought about in a while because I've been concentrating on a subset of said new stuff. I've been wanting to regain proficiency at the rest of it for a while. I'd just rather have had a bit more time.
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