WWYD

[Lookingforwardtospringster]

I took a new job after being laid off which was not the best experience. I got another permanent job in consulting. As soon as I arrived I was put on a full time contract with a big company due to end May 2026 after a year. It’s been a tedious contract which hasn’t used my experience - I was getting good feedback. My work knows my skills were not being used and they planned to reduce my allocation so I could work on interesting projects in my usual place of work. Those discussions were due to take place last week. Anyway I now have a call this afternoon to transition all my projects out of the blue by end Feb 2026 saying as I’d been asking for projects in another area they took this into consideration. Before Christmas they were talking about me working on projects in another area in addition to the workload I had to fill my time. So sounds to me like they’ve taken offence. What they said is incorrect. So now I’m concerned! I hope I Am moving to another area and not lost the contract entirely? WWYD? I’m trying to find out from my company what is happening but no response yet! While I am keen to get more work I hadn’t intended it to be in addition to what I’m doing?

I would prepare for both scenarios. It’s unlikely they are making a business decision because they are offended; at least I hope not. If the contract is wrapping up at the end of May they might be bringing in someone who specialises in closing contracts? Can you do some digging and find out how big contracts usually wrapped up?

So you wanted to do some other work in a different area, as well as continue your current work? Or change over to new projects entirely?

If you are going onto the new projects then that's why they're asking you hand over the old ones. Or you want to do both and that's why you're concerned?

I'm confused too.

Hi I was told at Christmas to handover some other work to a permanent employee and it was my busiest project. The job has never been super busy so this gave me even less work. My supervisor then said I’d keep the existing projects I had on AND work in another area too as they said it wouldn’t be too big a stretch for me. That was beginning of December and it’s now end January with nothing new. So I’d been asking when this other work was going to come to my (loosely termed) supervisor yet the way they’ve worded it makes it seem I didn’t want to work where I was and been asking about projects elsewhere. My work were due to have a call last week to talk about reducing my allocation and provide time of a more junior colleague as it was more admin type work!

Ok. It still sounds confusing.
I think you need to have a meeting with the boss of the new projects and the current boss, and just find out exactly what is happening.

How long have you been there, OP? Is it under two years?