New Work Issues

So I thought things were finally ok at work. Wasn't happy about not travelling internationally, but I finally let it go. Afterall, I've been wanting to be in NYC for a long time. But today...great. So I've been assigned on this one client with two of my friends. We've been here since November 14 and haven't gotten too much done. The client has been really nice, but they've just been really slow at getting things to us. This was the client that my Brazil trip got cancelled for since they knew that there was going to be issues here. So anyways, I was scheduled to be here until Dec 6, one of my friends was scheduled to be finished here tomorrow (and leave for Brazil), my other friend was scheduled to be finished here tomorrow and go to work at another place in NJ and this other girl (who hasn't been here all week but is in charge of the project) is only here next Monday and Tuesday.

As the week was going by, we've been calling the in charge and letting her know that we're not getting the information in a timely manner. So here we are with very little information and not enough time to finish everything. My friend that is scheduled to go to NJ suggested that she didn't mind staying here. I don't know if she meant it, but I mentioned it to the team leader. After all, the team that she will be on in NJ is there with five people for two weeks. What do they need that many people for? So our team leader has told us that she will put a call in to try to get my friend to stay here for another week. Not a bad deal. So each day we're in conversations trying to fight for my friends time. They allowed her to come back to help for a Monday...what the hell is one day going to do for us? I guess it'll lessen my load by 12 hours but what the hell? Still not going to finish. So we talk to our team leader again...this time, she's starting to get worried. She puts in another call to request my friend to stay...but for some reason they don't want to let her go from the other location.

Then we get a phone call in the afternoon from our team leader...BAD NEWS!!!! We only get my friend for the Monday like they have already told us...but worse yet...they pulled my other friend from the Brazil project to stay and help for another week! How stupid is that? He's already went and gotten shots ($700), a visa ($300) and prescriptions ($80) for the trip. I thought I was pissed about not going to Brazil but geez...if I was him, I'd have a fit. To top it off, he's going back to Cali for the long weekend and cancelled his return ticket back to NYC cause he decided to fly directly to Brazil from Cali...what a headache for him to rearrange all of his travel.

See how he's not even that angry

Can't believe how everything is so last minute and people just can't plan properly. This could have all been avoided if they had just let my friend stay here and not go to NJ.