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Contractor Fired...A Few Minutes Ago

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    #31
    Originally posted by Meerkat
    ....I'm a contract PM.....
    .....it will be 'my' projects that fail cos of him!
    You sound like a permie to me.....
    Illegitimus non carborundum est!

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      #32
      "Hes a total waste of space...incorrect skills, missing deadlines and a total pain to deal with. Been complaining about him constantly, they keep giving him 'second chances'. at the end of the day as PM it will be 'my' projects that fail cos of him!"

      Is his name Mordac by any chance?
      What happens in General, stays in General.
      You know what they say about assumptions!

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        #33
        Originally posted by premiere
        Turns out she was:

        A. Useless
        B. Clearly didn't know what she claimed she knew on her CV
        C. In the 3 weeks she was here, was off sick 4 times (a single day each time)
        D. Aggressive in a client meeting
        E. Not pretty

        ^^^^^^^^

        If she was very pretty, stunning even then A-D would not matter.

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          #34
          Originally posted by AtW
          E. Not pretty

          ^^^^^^^^

          If she was very pretty, stunning even then A-D would not matter.
          AtW, have you ever had a real girlfriend?

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            #35
            "AtW, have you ever had a real girlfriend?"

            Of course. Isnt Warcraft real?

            AtW
            What happens in General, stays in General.
            You know what they say about assumptions!

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              #36
              Don't play warcraft mate, too busy finding a vault for my gold bars.

              hth

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                #37
                Alexei I keep telling you, those are deep fried Mars Bars...

                I don't know... I think this obsession with Glaswegian girls has gone too far....
                Vieze Oude Man

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                  #38
                  In my last 2 years of contracting I've seen 3 contractors sacked,

                  1 for being cr*p and insisting on wearing her ruck sack on her chest rather than back.

                  1 because the rest of the team didnt like him

                  1 for leaving some password hacker thing running from his work PC over the weekend. The banks own IT security spotted it, they waited for him to come to his desk then security and someone from HR came and man handled him from his desk.

                  Ive never seen a permy sacked no matter how cr*p

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                    #39
                    one of the permies got sacked from my last contracting gig

                    2 so far at this one

                    all 3 for being crap
                    Coffee's for closers

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                      #40
                      Originally posted by Spacecadet
                      one of the permies got sacked from my last contracting gig

                      2 so far at this one

                      all 3 for being crap
                      Been there got the t-shirt.

                      The last place I was at kicked me out on my arse for picking my nose. That was the offical reason. The real reason is that my manager was scared that I just wiped the floor with him work wise. He had nothing that wasnt "lets do the same as we did last time".

                      Anyway for the indignity of being sacked I did a number on thier IT system. I personally didnt. They did. Its not my fault that all the applications I developed for them in my own spare time that were not part of my job were left in my user area. Its not my fault that they kept running them and didnt delete them from the system as I had asked them. It is however my fault that a certain text file was reoved from my web server causing these programs to go a bit loopy and start corrupting data. Nothing serious, but I wouldnt like to re-enter 3 yeasrs of run sheet information (only 123,000 records).

                      Revenge is best served cold, with a hint or f**k them. Yes they probably could have sued me but I'd like to prove them that it was me after all the programs and my web server are all provided without warranty and as it

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