I need to write applications because my contract is going to end in July. The job market here is shit, everybody is only looking for senior staff and I only have 3 years experience in my field. It’s also heavily male dominated and I absolutely hate the working culture. My boss basically told me they won’t keep me even though I did a good job with my project because I “don’t fit in with the company culture”. As examples he mentioned several instances of me suggesting to use other methods or tools that I had successfully used at other companies. We had so much trouble with the project mostly because communication was shit, but whenever I proposed better communication tools/methods (other than: get all 15 project members into a three hour long meeting twice a week), I was told that “we don’t do that here”, “this is just how it works at this company”.
I am so annoyed, exhausted, pissed and so done with working with fragile people who’ll blow up an entire project because their ego is bruised. They get to sulk and not do their job because they don’t like that I communicate the customers schedule to them. They get to say they’ll do it “in their own time”. And I first get in trouble with the higher-ups for upsetting the customer because the project is late and THEN get in trouble with my team lead for being mean to the developers who want to work in their own time and would rather not be bothered by questions or requirement changes until the deadline. But hey, I’m the one who doesn’t fit in and gets booted.
I just wish I could find a job that doesn’t suck.
So far job hunting isn’t going well. Mostly because everybody is looking for seniors. I was in contact with a couple of recruiters, but most told me they only have jobs for more experienced people or tell me they’ll see what they can do and then never contact me again… I have a call with a recruiter on Thursday so we’ll see.
On the plus side, my husband and I just booked our vacation and a spa hotel in June, so there’s something to look forward to.