What could be the reasons for a new employer asking about General Practitioner details when I am about to sign a permanent contract with them?
Is this usual practice ?
Edit
They are asking for GP Name, Phone and Address.
Morning everyone. I came in here because I'm confused. Perhaps you have some insight for me? This is my first job after dropping out of college (that's a different story that I'd rather not talk about right now). I got hired as a trainee originally but got promoted to the "software engineer with degree" payscale after 9 months because I've impressed them. Now, 3 months later, my manager put me on a PIP, because I don't have any code to show for a project yet.
I originally budgetted 800-1000 hours for the project. I was 200 hours in and finished most of the design at that point. The weird thing is, my manager's manager is transfering me to a different team next month?
Performance improvement plan. I've been assigned this project about 3 months ago, just after that promotion, not at the beginning. I worked on much smaller projects before that.
Besides, I've been working on other, smaller projects while working on that one. I've spent about 200 hours on the design (including meetings and travel time)
@Belle-Sophie allocation of time, managment of time. if senior cannot see anything viable they get irritated. sure u did ur research, I study at my new job. sometimes 5 hours and in last 2 hours make up for 5 hours coz I know the hard way. seeing is believing. even broken I show my senior of staging.
@Kilisi I remmeber ur grilling me 3 yrs ago on my first question of WP.
@Belle-Sophie it is nt, but deployment of a thought process need to me visible. understand this. if ur paid a company to move in ur house after 1000 hours, if after 200 hours they come to u and say we r still working on design so everything is fine going ahead with no roadblock. u wuld put them on warning saying, u need to see something or u will bring in other builers
@Kilisi Yep. I have the whole design saved. I even had meetings with him every fortnight to discuss it.
I've been taking up the product manager role on this project since it hasn't been done yet. I had meetings with clients discussing requirements and everything.
He was supposed to take up the product manager role for it and I was supposed to work with a team on this, but I ended up working on it alone. Now upper management is pressuring him to show something.
The part where it gets weird is that upper management is transfering me to a different team that works with more popular tech. It's basically a promotion.
mainly sometimes when manager does it like that they r trying to cover there incompetencies
keep ur cool, do ur work, earn ur money and keep it rolling. take it from me, who had taken so many hit coz i started to think something wrong with me.
but not so hard, i wish i could work smart. @motosubatsu I had given deadline 17th and its 25th still i got bit of alignments issues.
@Belle-Sophie the key is balance. do not give ur manager any signs that ur being rude or he might have a higher grounds then u, but also remember to show ur progress even if its broken.
@Nofel sounds like they are obviously pleased with what they have seen so far if they made you perm. Deadline slips happen.. it's not great when it's your first one for a company but all you can do now is resolve it as quickly as you can and keep them informed as to your progress. "bit of alignment issues" sounds like you are most of the way there (and presumably they will be able to see that)
@Kilisi "planning" seems to be a major deficit in many companies I've worked for when it comes to requirements for dev work, either through general malaise from POs or the intentional operation of rapid prototyping
Giving an accurate estimate in my experience is next to impossible unless I have a stellar statement of work that doesn't change or a simple 1 day or less task.
I'm hoping against hope that my neighbours shack, his numerous thieving relatives and perverted offspring all get blown away in a cyclone. 7 adults and none of them work, not even sure how many kids they have.
@Nofel Hello sir. Giving an accurate estimate is tough. I always, when pressed, take my gut feeling and add 30%. If I get time to do an analysis I am a bit more on point.
@Kilisi I overheard some people talk recently. They work in the harbour, transhipment, which is a seasonal job. They said something like "Netherlands is awesome! I only have to work 7 months a year and get 5 months paid vacation!"
2. when i get under hood i might not know X and it makes me afarid coz i think if i tell them i need time to do it coz i dont know, i might get "raised eyebrow"
@Kilisi Ok ok ok.....I have a full time job and an EMP....the requirements change so the estimate goes out the window.... I also do side gigs....and in the contract if the statement of work changes so does my estimate. Your right, as a contractor I am much much much more careful.
I tend to loose focus while seeing multiple problem on a page, working on one and going into another coz that might be easy. It been hard for me but I am training myself
yep, this particular bunch are worse than most, it's a family that got banished from their village so they've buil;t a shack on one of their relatives freehold land,
unfortunately it's next door to me... but I have a high fence, cameras, dogs and other stuff... so they've learnt to mostly leave me alone
@Kilisi agreed.. it tends to be something that you get better at the more the buck stops with you as well - I used to suck something awful at it, then I had to get involved in proper high level company planning and had to get pretty good pretty quick
@Nofel if you aren't confident that you know enough about the task or the tech involved to give at least a decent ball park estimation then don't guess. Instead say that you need to investigate the task more and say that you'll give them an answer to the deadline when that is done. This is not uncommon in dev - Agile even has an official term for it, calling such tasks a "Spike"
@Kilisi like a human sized version of those electric "tennis rackets" used to take out flies
BZZZT!!!
@MisterPositive how long is that going to take you?
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What could be the reasons for a new employer asking about General Practitioner details when I am about to sign a permanent contract with them?
Is this usual practice ?
Edit
They are asking for GP Name, Phone and Address.
None of my Rep changes (positive or negative) are showing up in the achievements drop down in the top nav bar.
I know I gained rep today and my total rep is correct, but I did not receive the notification. Not sure if this should be posted in our meta, or if this is a SE problem.
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