'No training for YOU!'

[blueyes]

Okay, so I'm pissed. There's a mandantory training for all field staff for a certain project - which I've worked extensively on - and I've just been told that I'm not being included in the training. Which means I can't do field work for the project anymore. :mad:

It's no fun to do field work in the cold, but I don't want to be cut out of this project's field work completely b/c then I will be stuck in the office the majority of the time, being rooked into projects which I either don't understand or don't want. :mad:

Oh, and no one's listening to me - except to say 'well, you already handle the majority of the adminstrative stuff on the project, so this makes sense.'

THIS SUCKS. :mad:

[yankeeyosh]

{{{blueyes}}}

Man, this really sucks. You deserve a lot better than this...please PM me anytime, because as I told, you, I had lots of fun myself with enviro consulting... :neutral:

[blueyes]

I'm going to corner my direct manager later today and tell him I want cross-trained in another area if they're taking away my ability to do field work on this (highly billable) project. Honestly, it's not a bad trade for them - this project is my primary source of field work (read: out of the office time), but if they cross-train me to something else...maybe I get more field work, but I'm decidedly more marketable for them.

There is more than one way around this...at least, that's what I'm going to believe until I encounter the insurmountable.

Whatever that may be.

edit: now there's a 'reluctance' to cross-train. WTF. :mad:

[yes_is_a_word]

I'm going to corner my direct manager later today and tell him I want cross-trained in another area if they're taking away my ability to do field work on this (highly billable) project. Honestly, it's not a bad trade for them - this project is my primary source of field work (read: out of the office time), but if they cross-train me to something else...maybe I get more field work, but I'm decidedly more marketable for them.

There is more than one way around this...at least, that's what I'm going to believe until I encounter the insurmountable.

Whatever that may be.

edit: now there's a 'reluctance' to cross-train. WTF. :mad:

I'd be asking the question - so what's really goin on here... and digging a little deeper - i'd be suspicious that there's a deeper issue in there that they're dancing around... request a "meeting" with the decision-makers and drop the questions on them. (ps. it's always been my experience that the best administrators are also field trained - that way they know what everyone else has been told.)

[NCFotoman]

I know how you feel...Sometimes it can't be helped. It seems you are very good at what you do. I would ask for a meeting with your immediate supervisor and officialy ask for a better explaination. I am retired from 43 years with a major corporation in the area of special projects and have been through many similar situations. Sometimes it's just a part of the job and you have to take it in stride and go on.

[Lipgloss Boost]

Two things:
a) you only ever get half-*ssed trained for anything in this world it seems
b) once you're there you typically don't use the training or the job truly wasn't whjat you were looking for.