What are the biggest mistakes a contractor can make in a role...

[Not So Wise]

Hmm lets see

• Being found asleep under your desk
• Being filmed on security cams bonking the girl from marketing on your desk
• Nicking laptops from IT storage
• Complaining to networks about blocking Bit torrent...well actually that was not got him booted, it was the 4 gigs of porn (including bestiality) they found when they went to see what exactly he was downloading
• Pirating client's purchaced software and then bittorrenting it, licence keys included
• Bitching about racial discrimination (because someone removed some permissions you neither needed nor were never meant to have)
• Blogging about how crap and retarded your clients permies are
• Bitchslapping your boss (though everyone agreed boss (female) deserved it, treated all the females under her like tulip, boss was fired about a month later)

[Liability]

flushing the head of the Head of Infrastructure down the loo whilst also ensuring you take a recording of it on your phone

[JoJoGabor]

Hmm lets see

• Being found asleep under your desk

Haha when I first started my career in a support department we had our own little office between 5 of us. We used to take turns to sleep under the desk making sure we had our mits around a network cable so if anyone came in we were given a kick and it looked like we were patching something in. We even had a pillow under there

[JoJoGabor]

Hmm lets see

• Being found asleep under your desk

Haha when I first started my career in a support department we had our own little office between 5 of us. We used to take turns to sleep under the desk making sure we had our mits around a network cable so if anyone came in we were given a kick and it looked like we were patching something in.

[Mich the Tester]

Hmm lets see

Being found asleep under your desk

I once fell asleep during a job application.

[Tingles]

Tell everyone on their first day that they didn't really need to work...

He used to be EMEA IT Director at Sony - but decided contracting was more exciting and profitable.

Always bringing up more problems than solving.

Trying to delegate everything to everyone else at a drop of a hat.

He 'invented' ITIL in the 1980s...

In the end we started calling him Lord Sandwich as his list of inventions / discoveries kept getting more and more outlandish....

[Mich the Tester]

Tell everyone on their first day that they didn't really need to work...

He used to be EMEA IT Director at Sony - but decided contracting was more exciting and profitable.

Always bringing up more problems than solving.

Trying to delegate everything to everyone else at a drop of a hat.

He 'invented' ITIL in the 1980s...

In the end we started calling him Lord Sandwich as his list of inventions / discoveries kept getting more and more outlandish....

Sounds like my project manager.

[Churchill]

Tell everyone on their first day that they didn't really need to work...

He used to be EMEA IT Director at Sony - but decided contracting was more exciting and profitable.

Always bringing up more problems than solving.

Trying to delegate everything to everyone else at a drop of a hat.

He 'invented' ITIL in the 1980s...

In the end we started calling him Lord Sandwich as his list of inventions / discoveries kept getting more and more outlandish....

Sounds like Threaded.

Fixed it for ya!

[Tingles]

Tell everyone on their first day that they didn't really need to work...

He used to be EMEA IT Director at Sony - but decided contracting was more exciting and profitable.

Always bringing up more problems than solving.

Trying to delegate everything to everyone else at a drop of a hat.

He 'invented' ITIL in the 1980s...

In the end we started calling him Lord Sandwich as his list of inventions / discoveries kept getting more and more outlandish....

More....

Coming to work, with what looked like pond scum on their green mouldy jacket...

Telling everyone of their latest fight they had in the pub last night...

Being p1ssed before 9am most mornings...

Being totally unable to produce any piece of work on time...

AND probably the worse thing....

Being the last one to be kept on by the client when everyone else was canned because of lack of budget.... what were they thinking?????

[Hawkeye]

Sitting on the work phone all day talking to wife. Blatently not work related when all conversations are spoken in a foreign language. Longest call was four hours but only because he went out for lunch and it continued when he returned.