I feel dirty.....

[Mich the Tester]

Isn't that what contractors do? And are grateful for the favour (flavour>)

Only if you pay us twice, correction three times as much as the permies.

[sasguru]

Only if you pay us twice, correction three times as much as the permies.

Well if you really have those special, rare skills. And you'd better hope the barriers to entry are high. Otherwise I'll get the chap from Bangalore on an intra-company transfer.

HTH

[PRC1964]

Antibacterial soap won't wash away those "four core values"!

Indeed. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten the bitterness of an annual performance review.

[chef]

Is your chair at the correct height, it doesnt look like it, i think I better give Health & Safety a call to come give you a full review..

<shudder>

You see, blue sky thinking there got us out of that possible problem..

[Platypus]

"four core values"

Fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope ?

[TykeMerc]

Fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope ?

NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!!!!!!!!

[Churchill]

Fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope ?

Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms...

Shirley?

[original PM]

I crossed into permiedom 2 weeks ago (Missus beign amde redundanct thought regular income would be useful!)

any way so far so good - they still do not have a desk for me and I only just got my laptop - which i had to configure myself - so thats 2 weeks pay for pretty much zero work!

Anyway I missed an e-mail about performance reviews and got a reminder this morning so will be popping in to see my boss soon (she is not bad person to be honest seems competent - quite perky jubblies too)

Anyway I am wondering whether she will be interested in entering into a discussion about whether this review will actually mean anything or whether my career success will be based purely on kissing the right persons ass.

Could be back on the bench quite soon me thinks!

Wish me luck!

[pleomax]

Good News

I think i may have blown it so to speak.

I walk into the room

Int : "Hi i am Mr Kissmya**e"
Me : "Hi i am Pleomax"

Int : "I would like to run down this list of questions, it makes it fair on everyone then"
Me : Sitting down as i hadn't been asked "Why don't I run through my skill set and explain to you how i see this lightning the load on your organisation?"

I then run through my my sales brochure (CV), he nods.

Int : "If we can just run through these questions"
Me : (Crap he is going to go through with this)

Best question "How would you last boss describe you", so I told him he said would they say anything negative about you.

I said why would i do that?

He looked blankly and said well I would expect you to say what your last boss would say.

OK I WAS MY LAST BOSS.

Next question was what type of boss do you like, I said one that will listen and not keep asking stupid questions.

2 hours to deliver that line, he shuffles his papers then says thanks we will let you know.

So do you think i got it?

[lightng]

I crossed into permiedom 2 weeks ago (Missus beign amde redundanct thought regular income would be useful!)

any way so far so good - they still do not have a desk for me and I only just got my laptop - which i had to configure myself - so thats 2 weeks pay for pretty much zero work!

Anyway I missed an e-mail about performance reviews and got a reminder this morning so will be popping in to see my boss soon (she is not bad person to be honest seems competent - quite perky jubblies too)

Anyway I am wondering whether she will be interested in entering into a discussion about whether this review will actually mean anything or whether my career success will be based purely on kissing the right persons ass.

Could be back on the bench quite soon me thinks!

Wish me luck!

Always a bonus