Timeline for New job in a new continent: different tasks than promised, and bored to tears overall. How to professionally handle it?
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| Jan 15, 2020 at 17:10 | comment | added | Edwin Buck | @Remy Well, if you don't shine at the task at hand, which seems to be part of the tasks you were hired for, they probably will change their mind about putting you on the greenfield project. Or the greenfield project is "just around the corner" and you need to identify it's blockers to determine if it's going to arrive in a few months or a few years, or ever. I worked in a bank once, their greenfield project eventually failed to justify the costs involved, but it took a year to figure that out, meanwhile we made the old project it would replace better. | |
| Jan 14, 2020 at 7:29 | comment | added | Remy | I was also promised to work on a greenfield project. If I had known I'd be working on this application (which scores very low on the Spolsky test, all it has going for it is a VCS), I wouldn't have taken the job. No-one else is working on this application anymore, and the people who did work on it are all in totally different non-technical functions now. I'm not reviewing any code, just trying to untangle the mess on an app no-one else will touch for another two years. | |
| Jan 13, 2020 at 20:24 | history | answered | sf02 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |