So who else is on the bench...

[Buffoon]

Logistics? That’s lorry driving ‘n stuff.

You sound like AndyW. In real life he was a shelf filler in Tesco’s but claimed he was in IT because he had one of those hand held bar code readers.

[Sockpuppet]

Logistics? That’s lorry driving ‘n stuff.

Argh the uneducated!!

I do more project work (i.e. design + build warehouses).

But I also drive lorries as my plan B

[Sysman]

Anyway time for plan B to kick in. From Jan you'll find me mostly on the M1 with laptop and datacard applying for jobs from lay-bys and getting £30k to find work... marvelous. Stress free, IR35 safe and almost guaranteed £££. Starting to think truckers are a higher life form.

That's got to be better than life as a permie. Rest breaks and limited working hours, enforced legally

[LordF]

My first contract was after being made redundant from the last permie role in the summer of 1998.

Came back from hols in July 98, went to my office, got a call "Come to the board-room", went up, got told to pack my Sh*t, take this cheque as 3 months notice and bring the company car back in 3 months. Packed my stuff, deleted all my emails and reformatted the Desk Top and f*cked off home.

Within 2 months I had offer of my first contract. Stayed there 20 months. Utilities company.

The second contract was easy, as the manager from the first contract had gone to company 2 (Telecoms company) and he called me over. Was there 6 months.

3rd - 11 months (Telecoms)
4th - 30 months (Pharma)
5th - 21 months (Telecoms)
6th - still here after 8 months (air transport)
Total time out (on the bench) in between contracts: 3 weeks (between 3rd and 4th contract).

[MarillionFan]

I was going to do the same as LordF there. List all my contracts etc in the last 8 years but to be honest I dont have three weeks plus this site isnt big enough to hold the list.

[SandyDown]

MF == threaded apprentice !!