new jersey

Looks like I will be going to New Jersey yet again.

I have tried and tried to screw up this project and get the client to take it away from us. But nooo... the more I fuck up, the more the want us to do. You can read all about the project from hell here and my shitty job here.

The latest on the project from hell is that we are $30,000 in the hole. Which on a project that was supposed to be only $75,000 is pretty deep in the hole to go. I just got cc'ed on a beg-the-client-for-more-money email. Here is a brief excerpt:

Even with this discount, the invoiced amount exceeds the new purchase order total by $10,400.30.

So it looks like my company is going to charge them an extra $20,000 and we're going to swallow the rest. Ouch. For a company with 8 employees, $10,000 is not an easy figure to swallow.

My opinion is that the person who scoped out the work (my boss) fucked it up. Of course this is not something that he is willing to admit.

As a person who likes to try to predict the future, I'd have to guess that the next time there is a small downturn in the projects we have, my ass is gone from this place. Somebody has to pay for such a large screw-up. Might as well be me. Besides, I don't fit in culturally here. They know it. I know it. None of this has been said, I can just feel it. Even if they don't fire me, I have a bad taste in my mouth from working on this project for the last 5 months, and I will probably quit if I could only get off my self-pitying ass and fix up my resume and portfolio.

So time will tell. For now, as long as this project is going on I have a job. But only because it would take too long to bring a new guy up to speed.

One thing is for sure, when this project does end, I will have lots of new material for the blog...