fuck this job.com

Ever had the feeling that a really bad episode from your past working life was going to repeat itself? Well, I just got that nasty feeling during the past week.

In March of 2003 I started working for a firm that had a number of very lucrative and politically sensitive contracts on its books. I was one of two new recruits and we were sent on various assignments together, doing audit work for some of these clients. The work was interesting but also required a higher than usual degree of responsibility and diligence due to the nature of the clients. We got along well enough but two months into our new job, this other guy started having trouble with our boss. There were verbal fights and written warnings. Then one day, both of us were sent full time on one of the hottest auditing jobs ever. I went into the assignment with a mixture of fear and expectation but this other guy was totally unimpressed. By that time, the hatred between employer and employee was such that they barely spoke to each other. The fallout from this was that I ended up doing most of the work as my colleague, a fully fledged CPA, decided to give the very least effort – bottom line was, I was doing half his work plus all of mine. Endless hours of net browsing and online games would sometimes end with this CPA leaving the office two or three hours before time for no reason. Sometimes he would not bother to show up at all and our foreign supervisor would complain to our boss who would issue a useless warning.

I really hate to think about déjà vu but that is the feeling I am getting about my present situation. It’s all there - the written warnings, the less than enthusiastic employee, the time wasting – and I fear it’s reached a point of no return. At least now, I’m prepared …… I think!