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Originally posted by Fronttoback View PostI'm not Australian. You are projecting your failure vibe again. You did not come first. Others have achieved more than you with less effort and more panache. Now jog on back to your ZX81 simulator and try to impress your fugly Mrs with your shallow grasp of clever stuff.Hard Brexit now!
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Originally posted by Fronttoback View Post... Now jog on back to your ZX81 simulator...Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Mods,
can we move this thread to the depressed forum.
What's going on, 17 tears ago I joined a Contractor's forum to discuss materialism and success, and now it's turned into a knacker's yard !
It has gone from a combination of Only Fools and Horse mixed with The New Statesman, to Steptoe and Son !
Milan.Last edited by milanbenes; 21 April 2017, 07:40.Comment
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Originally posted by oliverson View PostI guess I feel like John Terry does at Chelsea right now! Past it. Legs have gone.
I did a very short stint with two other guys last year and we were all way too long in the tooth to put up with the pups from PA and Deloitte running around like chaos monkeys.
We holed ourselves up in a corner and watched the pattern of agile as these idiots thought it.
1) Turn up at 8 to find all your Jenkins builds were ****ed beyond broken.
2) Work till 4pm running around with hair on fire fixing what ever was broken in the code.
3) Wander off for a Vape to figure out why your team torched its own code
4) work till way past 9 actually doing what you needed to start at 8 the previous morning
5) destroy your code at 10 because you are too tired/fed up/wired on coffee to function
6) go home and repeat 1...
We stood there for a week and figured out exactly when the issues would occur and normally who would be the idiot that lit the fuse. We worked no more than 7 hours a day and went to the pub every lunch time...
We didn't fit in.
My colleagues word at the time was thank **** I don't fit because if I was as stupid at my age as you are now I would belong in an asylumComment
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostOh dear! Bit of a petulant loser response. Nil point. Thanks for playing though
You think you're on top of things but almost every post you make is a d1ck move. But you cannot help but do one after the other after the other.Comment
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oh dear what has this come to.
You know what I contracted in Belgium 15 years ago, at that time I had been contracting 3 years, and didn't own a car. I took the bus every day to the client site, a 40 minutes bus ride. My contractor colleagues used to tease me, why didn't I have a car and why didn't I have something shiny like them, well the reason was, I was saving every penny to pay for my house in cash as I always operated with the approach that contracting will end next year (it never did) and I would live like on a permy salary and bank the rest
At the client site, (I was 29 at the time) there was a security guard, everybody walked past him with their noses in the air, I used to say hello and sometimes stop and talk to him. He once said to me, look at me, I am 55 and I am a security guard. He said, 20 years back, he was a captain of the big tanker boats on the canals for Shell, and owned a brand new Jaguar, he said look at me now - I showed sympathy through my expressions but inside, I swore to myself, this is absolutely the example I don't want to become.
I sense we have a few of those security guards in this thread.
Milan.Comment
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Originally posted by milanbenes View PostI sense we have a few of those security guards in this thread.
Milan.
I fear that you lack both the physique and intellect to manage the role of security guard.
HTH
“The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”Comment
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Originally posted by shaunbhoy View PostKeep your expectations in check milan.
I fear that you lack both the physique and intellect to manage the role of security guard.
HTH
Milan.Comment
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Originally posted by milanbenes View Postoh dear what has this come to.
You know what I contracted in Belgium 15 years ago, at that time I had been contracting 3 years, and didn't own a car. I took the bus every day to the client site, a 40 minutes bus ride. My contractor colleagues used to tease me, why didn't I have a car and why didn't I have something shiny like them, well the reason was, I was saving every penny to pay for my house in cash as I always operated with the approach that contracting will end next year (it never did) and I would live like on a permy salary and bank the rest
At the client site, (I was 29 at the time) there was a security guard, everybody walked past him with their noses in the air, I used to say hello and sometimes stop and talk to him. He once said to me, look at me, I am 55 and I am a security guard. He said, 20 years back, he was a captain of the big tanker boats on the canals for Shell, and owned a brand new Jaguar, he said look at me now - I showed sympathy through my expressions but inside, I swore to myself, this is absolutely the example I don't want to become.
I sense we have a few of those security guards in this thread.
Milan.
So you are here to show off your flash motor in the ALDI car park, are you?Comment
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