This thread is laughable... Blackballed? Probation? Ooops we lost your resume?
We're arguing semantics & synonyms here.
And while I appreciate Eric Bartlett's appearance here on these message boards, I certainly haven't gotten any professional feedback surveys from his company. From ANY of the companies... I've worked for them all. Aren't they interested in what happened at their site? Don't they want some undiluted input as to how their techs and their site coordinators are really representing Bartlett in the field? Do they really trust the exit-interview process? (also, laughable at best.) And even more important, how would they guarantee to protect & reward the techs that told them the ugly truth?
If any of the companies really & truly care about their techs, their agents in the field, their most prized commodity... then they should be spending this summer down-time reaching out (letters, e-mails, texts, etc.) and asking for some CANDID input from us. IMHO, they can only limp along on so many contracts. Sad when the RPM's admit this too. That's why its best to sidestep the contractor companies & keep networking with your utility friends. The middle man scenario is losing it's appeal quickly.
Or is ignorance bliss? 
lighten up Heather, you've gone from "Rookie of the Year 2009" to cynical, seen it all and it all sucks, rugged individualist in only 4 years,...
hell, most juniors can't get the time in four years anymore unless they impress a utility type and get selected to stay around between outages,...
so you're pretty fortunate in today's marketplace compared to many of your contemporaries,...
few, if any of them, are privy to RPM insights concerning business, contracts, and feedback,...
few, if any of them can stick it in the services companies eye and rely on their utility connections to get them work,...
some, if not most of them, have to compete without a home team booster club guiding them to the reserved parking spots,...
some, if not most of them, do still rely heavily on the staff augmentation companies to place them in jobs,...
so, for them, there's a lot of good, even keeled temperance to be gleaned in this thread,...
I'm just saying,...
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you can get all cynical and call yourself Blah Blah Blah in the here and now,....
but you'll always be "HeatherB. - Rookie of the Year 2009" to me,...
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