Erm - probably I should run away

[threaded]

Oh, I'd go for it. And seek out the people who were involved in your payoff while you're there, just to say hello. Best take the Porsche, and have a wad of £20 in your shirt pocket.

I've done something like that. I'd heartily recommend it.

[cojak]

Oh yes - definately.

This is one of the unmentioned perks of contracting.

...meeting the manager who paid you off last time - priceless.

[NotAllThere]

Like the guys who forced me out of permiedom and cost his company about 50 days worth of my current rate... they expected me to go back the UK with my tail between my legs. Not still be here four years later, with twice the income I had before.... I see them sometimes around town, and always greet them effusively.

Though the manager who allowed it all to happen - he lost his job one week before I left. Which was nice.

[Sockpuppet]

I don't understand - you were made redundant?

Or you were so bad they bribed you to leave?

I wasn't bad, I was very good at my job. The problem is that others weren't and I told them this. I walked up to the group HR manager one day and proclaimed "you really are the worst HR manager I've ever had the pleasure of working for". Lots of sarcasm but nothing rude or offensive so they couldn't do me.

They decided that they couldn't fire me as I'd done nothing wrong so they offered me £10k to bugger off. I did and got a higher paying job the week after

[Menelaus]

I told my ex-employer after 2.5 years of working seven day, sixty hour weeks that I needed some time off and that the time off needed to start (to all intents and purposes) immediately.

Was told "no" in a wholly unsympathetic manner - so told 'em to "go **** 'emselves" and walked ... and that, dear reader, is how I became a contractor!

[stingman123]

Take their money,
Drink their wine
Rape their women

what? Oh.....I'l get me coat

How can you even contemplate this, you're a contractor!!! TAKE THE MONEY!!

[NotAllThere]

I wasn't bad, I was very good at my job. The problem is that others weren't and I told them this. I walked up to the group HR manager one day and proclaimed "you really are the worst HR manager I've ever had the pleasure of working for". Lots of sarcasm but nothing rude or offensive so they couldn't do me.

I had a contractor on one project, and he got so fed up with the deputy project manager, that he went into the project office, and told him, among other things, that he couldn't manage his way out of a wet paper bag.

As his boss, I was instructed to handle the discipline. He was key to the project, so they didn't want me to fire him.

So, my deputy and I, went into the development room, and, looking very serious, told him we need to have a word.

We found an empty room. He sat on one side of the desk, we on the other. Very grave. "We've been told what you said to F______, and, really, there's only one thing we can say..."

"Well done. Keep it up. It needed to be said." And shook his hand. He told us later he was convinced we were going to sack him. He forgave us eventually.