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    #11
    Originally posted by beeker View Post
    I'll give you that one. But at the end of the day as long as they aren't paying and you have followed proper protocols for informing your management you will not be in.

    They aren't paying and probably won't give a monkey's as long as it isn't to the detriment of a current project. Your manage will think their budget will be slightly better off!
    You would think, but, why the stream of emails eh?

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      #12
      Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
      You would think, but, why the stream of emails eh?
      It is because to most Big Co clients, you are an employee. A bloody expensive one who decides they are not going to turn up today.
      Rule #76: No excuses. Play like a champion.

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        #13
        Originally posted by Xenophon View Post
        It is because to most Big Co clients, you are an employee. A bloody expensive one who decides they are not going to turn up today.
        I wish I'd said that.

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          #14
          Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
          I wish I'd said that.
          Rule #76: No excuses. Play like a champion.

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            #15
            Just had a two minute phone call. Ker-ching! Into the third chargeable hour.

            This is great!
            My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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              #16
              Originally posted by beeker View Post
              Is she trying to find out if you are 'allowed' to take a day off? Or is she being curious as to how Myco's are run?
              The former. Checking up on me probably. She, meanwhile, is also 'working from home' but is a permie so gets paid for watching the telly.

              Originally posted by beeker View Post
              They aren't paying and probably won't give a monkey's as long as it isn't to the detriment of a current project.
              That's the best bit: they are paying 'cos they keep emailing me pointless questions.
              My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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                #17
                Ring, ring.

                "What is the difference between 1 eweek and 1 week"
                "Elapsed week."
                "OK, bye"

                Ker-ching! Another hour.

                (That phone called worked out at about £2,500 per hour)
                My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by RichardCranium View Post
                  Ring, ring.
                  If you're not a permie, how comes they have your home phone number?
                  “Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
                    If you're not a permie, how comes they have your home phone number?
                    Home number? Registered office, please.

                    'Cos I leave a trail of business cards behind me like a paper snail.
                    My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
                      You would think, but, why the stream of emails eh?

                      yep... smells of a manager wanting to catch you out somehow and therefore justifying their existance?

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