Every time I hear I am going to one, it reminds me of the "Haunted Meeting" joke thats on Bob and Tom. But nevertheless, I had 2 today. First one was me mostly presenting my progress on the project. Found out that one of the branches that was going to take about 3 weeks in total is now cancelled, making my job shorter than I was expecting. They say there is another project to handle for the Engineers, but we'll see. The supervisor tells me that they are trying to see what they can do to get me in with the System Engineers at Summit Pointe, but he says they are encountering political issues, so that will be determined later as it progresses on. At least Troy called it how they said it when they mentioned it to him. I am doing my best to trust that the supervisors are doing everything in their power to make it work for me, but they mentioned that the decision is really up to ITP, the IT company that runs the show. I appreciate those guys, they really are trying their best to help me, but enevitably it will be out of their hands.
Then the second meeting, where the bosses boss comes in and says that there might or might not be a ASE (Associated Systems Engineer) coming in to work with the guys that I would be theoretically be working with. This troubles me, this must be the political part that I was hearing about. They also made it sound like it was likely going to happen too. Even though nobody is directly telling me that things aren't going to work, they won't say that they are either. I would like to be their ASE, if only they'd get me a chance to show them what I can do. I know that I am capable of doing it. More and more I am getting the vibe that I am going to get the shit end of this stick eventually. I am going to get emails out and start hitting up the recruiters for more work, at best guess, this is all going to come to a head in 3-4 weeks. Just in time for Christmas season, shit the luck...
What would really get under my skin is that Troy got work out of this and not me. I like him and all, but that would really bother me.
At least in the end, I can truly say that what I learned at Summit Point will truly help me later in future IT jobs. I really learned alot about the game, and about big business. I will never regret the time I spent there. I knew coming into it that it was a gamble on whether I would or would not get the job in the end. I had to take the chance, and I feel I did the right thing no matter what
