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    #21
    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    Out of interest, is this a public sector or private sector gig?

    I'd be interested in which clients have money to burn on contractors that don't do anything. I'd fit right in there.
    Public sector.

    Kerching.
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      #22
      Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
      Are the results of the poll binding?
      Absolutely not. I already know what I'm going to do, I just wondered what the experts thought.
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        #23
        do you have all your normal coding tools?

        start building your own stuff, practice things you haven't worked on before.

        If you are able to get any new tools installed, get them on and learn them.

        Could you ask to work from home? make that contingent in the extension?

        what kind of place is it that doesn't give you web access?

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          #24
          Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
          Absolutely not. I already know what I'm going to do, I just wondered what the experts thought.

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            #25
            Originally posted by jmo21 View Post
            do you have all your normal coding tools?
            Not the usual toolset, a tiny, tiny subset.

            Originally posted by jmo21 View Post
            If you are able to get any new tools installed, get them on and learn them.
            No chance - it's a way away from the "normal" work that I do.

            Originally posted by jmo21 View Post
            Could you ask to work from home? make that contingent in the extension?
            No - very secure site that won't allow that kind of thing.

            Originally posted by jmo21 View Post
            what kind of place is it that doesn't give you web access?
            very secure site that won't allow that kind of thing.
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              #26
              Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
              Not the usual toolset, a tiny, tiny subset.



              No chance - it's a way away from the "normal" work that I do.



              No - very secure site that won't allow that kind of thing.



              very secure site that won't allow that kind of thing.
              So what have you decided on?

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                #27
                Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
                Not the usual toolset, a tiny, tiny subset.



                No chance - it's a way away from the "normal" work that I do.



                No - very secure site that won't allow that kind of thing.



                very secure site that won't allow that kind of thing.
                that sucks!

                start bringing in books?

                start disappearing to meeting in different parts of the building, and find some secluded nook to hide in?

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                  #28
                  Originally posted by jmo21 View Post
                  start disappearing to meeting in different parts of the building, and find some secluded nook to hide in?
                  I now hide a newspaper in the gents so I can hide there for a bit. For a while I had to be escorted round the building, so absolutely no space for hiding...
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                    #29
                    Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
                    I now hide a newspaper in the gents so I can hide there for a bit. For a while I had to be escorted round the building, so absolutely no space for hiding...
                    I take it you have already decided to walk?

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                      #30
                      When you don't care anymore - that's when you can negotiate. Decide what it would take to stay - 50% more pay? 50% fewer hours with the same daily?

                      Then quit if you don't get it.
                      Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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