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ME: "I've been supporting your team a lot for the past year. Can I just join your team? You have a lot of interesting projects available." MGR: "Actually, it's
by legerdemain 6y ago
ME: "I've been supporting your team a lot for the past year. Can I just join your team? You have a lot of interesting projects available."
MGR: "Actually, it's really hard to onboard new people right now. We're stretched very thin. Can you do this urgent project for us and then get back to me?"
MGR: <onboards some new hires>
ME: <finishes urgent project>
ME: "So, any chance I can join the team?"
MGR: "Actually, I'm not sure we really have space on the team anymore, I'm really sorry about that."
Takeaway: If you're in a meeting with a manager and they sound completely unenthusiastic, and not even making eye contact, and falling back on their basic lead training to feed you non-committal apologies, you have lost hard. I don't know how you messed up or what clues you misread, but there is nothing for you there. Stop hoping to strike gold. Run.
- twobitshifter 6y agoHe did get hired as full time eventually. But I don’t know why he took the second offer for contract work other than lack of options, as they say “fool me once…”
- legerdemain 6y agoI assume it's some combination of hard luck and interesting work.
- phibz 6y agoYou have no real leverage in that position. Your best bet would be to find something else and then see if they want to keep you. Only thing is you can't bluff.