Mr Cool, Never thought I will be back here that early and seeking your suggestion and opinion?
As mentioned in my other post that after 3 months of GAP on my CV I landed up with 2 contracts and accepted one of them which was slightly better paying and the role was Business PM (the other offer was for IT PM).
It's been a couple of weeks in the new role and it is becoming apparent that the Programme Director (permie) who interviewed and hired me is a nightmare!! My line manager i.e. Programme Manager (who reports into that Programme Director) also interviewed me and is a nice chap however, is a contractor.
The issue I have is that Programme Director is a micro manager to unbelievable level!! Recently he has been very rude to the programme manager "in front of many people including his team members i.e. me" on such a tiny matter. This Programme Director interacts with me as well for no apparent reasons every now and than and I am concerned how things will go moving further. They way this programme director acted/behaved with that programme manager I in my wildest dream can't expect to be treated that way "even if I did something silly in managing the project" .
If such things happen to me I will be quitting same day!!
I can do the job (despite of I have been IT PM all my career apart from last 8 months when I worked as lead change manager for a leading investment bank and did splendid job) however, it seems this programme director has got larger than life expectations which I have concluded I can not meet. I can't imagine someone sitting on my head and telling me how I need to draft the project plans!! That's what this Programme Director is doing with my programme manager. I can foresee what my programme manager (who himself has been programme director within this organisation on his earlier engagements) is going through at the moment I will soon be going through the same in coming month or so!!
Conclusion: I can't work with this Programme Director. Why on earth this Programme Director needs to interact with me for anything when he has programme manager under him who is my line manager and my project sits under my programme manager's programme.
So I am thinking to move on from this role but the question is when should be the right time to resign so that I don't have much damage to my CV.
Understanding I recently had a big gap on my CV i.e. 3 months when I was travelling and looking for a contract how killing it would be if I leave my current contract anytime from now?
It would not be good to show on CV that I looked 3 months for a role and when I got the role I left in couple of weeks!!
My options are following:
A) Can resign now by giving 1 week notice which will take my engagement in this project until 1st week of July. My CV will say I worked for 2 months (factually I would have worked only 3 weeks) for this client i.e. from June 12- July 12.
B) Can wait until mid July and then resign i.e. another 2-3 weeks of torture by this Programme director. After mid July my notice period will become 1 month which will take me to Mid Aug. My CV will show I worked for this client for 3 months i.e. from June 12 to Aug 12 (factually I would worked only for 2 months). Once I would have put up my resignation I would not care what this programme director says as I can always choose not to listen to him during my notice period.
C) Don't resign and keep on going until this programme director becomes absolutely unbearable....the risk here is I will be approaching Sep and OCT months and leaving a contract that time may mean no new contract until Feb-Mar 2013!!!
My preferred option is Option B. My CV won't look that bad considering looking for a role for 3 months and then doing a short contract of 3 months "on paper" (factually 2 months) does sound better than leaving the contract after 2 weeks.
There are rumours that this programme director might not renew the contract of the programme manager which is in next 2 weeks and if my programme manager is gone my life will be miserable by dealing directly with this programme director!!
The role is merely paying £550 a day but the project is very high profile and high visibility project. Is it worth taking that much pain and sitting around for more than 2 weeks before I put 1 month notice?
What are your thoughts around this? I really need your opinion before I do any mess up!!
Is there any better way to deal with the issue instead of resigning? The work pressure is so high that it will be impossible to look for a new contract in parallel so I will have to wait until mid july i.e. until I resign before putting up my CV in the market.
Regards