Opinions please!

[Janet]

Wish I could help Lindsey, but I have no idea what to advise. I just hope you make a decision that you are comfortable with and will have no regrets.

[Lindsey]

I just spoke with my cousin and she doesn't think I am able to bid on jobs within the company unless I am a permanent employee who is there at least 6 months. The job isn't even 6 months long, and I'd be temporary.

[judy]

I hate to be a stick in the mud, but I would stay put for now. You have a mortgage to pay, and if you can't make the payments, it will mess up your credit rating for quite a while.

I don't understand what they want Scott to do.

[Gina]

I agree with most you have a secure job at the moment and it pays the mortgage.. Jobs are very hard to come by today.

[Marilyn]

I'd stay put and keep up with what is going on at the other govenment job place. Hopefully a permanent position will open up and then you can make the change.

[Lindsey]

Judy, the long story is that Scott has a lot of banked time left over from when he worked in the lab last year and worked long hours up north at the mines. I desperately needed help in drafting, and since he is the only person around with drafting experience, he got put in the drafting department with me. Before we went to Vegas in June, he was told to go home for 2 weeks on banked time because I wasn't even 100% billable on my own. That time just kept stretching out and now it's 2 months later and they still don't want him back in drafting even though I'm pretty swamped

He was booked to go to another job just over an hour away doing lab work. He was going to work 10 days on, 4 days off, but they were very flexible on the time he needed off for concerts he already has tickets for, his grandparents' anniversary (they are both in their 90's and may not see another), the birth of his sister's child, etc. Well, those plans all changed when he came in on Monday and the managers told him to get packed because he's going up north for 2 weeks at a time until winter comes.

I told him to stand his ground, he was promised a job in the office, and the management just laid off lab people they could have used for this job. He tried standing his ground, and the manager that I can't stand told him "Well you don't have a choice. It's either this or you don't have a job with us anymore. You have an hour to decide." He isn't comfortable losing his job so now he's leaving either today, tomorrow, or the next day (they haven't even told him that yet), and he'll be 13 hours away with no phone service until the middle of August.

[Lindsey]

I don't have much of a choice but to stay for now. I'm just worried that my company won't last to the end of the year so I want to find something! I can find a job at this time of year, but come October when there's snow on the ground, construction stops and nobody hires technologists anymore until spring. If we go bankrupt I won't get anything. Employment Insurance only covers 60% of my wage and that won't cover my mortgage.
We have a really promising young engineer set to take over management of our office when the current managers retire. I think the only thing that will really save us now is them retiring more quickly because they're basically running us to the ground. We don't get paid enough, and the managers are never even HERE to make sure things are running smoothly.
I really hope she can take over soon. I'd be comfortable here if she did. I'm comfortable talking to her. She's a perfectionist and great to work with. I think she could really turn us around. But who knows what will come of the company before she gets a chance.