Playing Doom on the corporate network at lunchtimes.
Colleagues nearby, in a different dept, just didn't get it.
Colleagues nearby, in a different dept, just didn't get it.
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The closest I ever got to perm was a week's work experience during school. I miss sorting the post. And enjoying a nice can of diet coke every lunchtime from the communal supply in the fridge, then finding out on the last day that it wasn't a communal supply, & someone was wondering where all their diet cokes had gone.Comment
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The 11 minute commute.
The easy life. Contracting is harder work. After a while in a permie job, you know everything and everyone there and it becomes routine and easy.
Compressed hours - can't beat finishing on a Thursday.
I'll never go back to permie life though...Back at the coal faceComment
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Don't tempt fate.16 months gigging until mortgage paid off.Comment
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£50 perdiems. In Budapest, back when it was hard work spending £50 a day in Budapest."See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."Comment
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I only ever had one permie job.
I miss the roast pork baguettes, and the huge variety of underutilised computers coupled with a job that was basically "sit around until something happens" leaving one plenty of time to tinker.While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'Comment
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Having hair, being able to run and being free to chase women.Originally posted by Spacecadet View PostGuy Fawkes - "The last man to enter Parliament with honourable intentions."Comment
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But even non-*ahem* sick days , i.e. real sick days, are worse now cos you have to be 10 times worse than when you were a perm AND you are losing £x00.Originally posted by Stag Cozier View PostHaving holidays and *ahem* sick days without giving a stuff and still getting paid
Lunchtime Doom and Quake was always good back in the day, running some dire 386 with no dedicated GPU (cos they barely existed then) with a window about an 8th of the screen in the middle to handle the graphics.
Fully expensed Christmas parties til 6a.m.
Developer conferences in Vegas followed by 2 weeks personal holiday at a mate's in NY, all flights at least business class, and paid for.Never has a man been heard to say on his death bed that he wishes he'd spent more time in the office.Comment
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Oh I forgot about Doom at lunchtimes. Yes, that was fun tooOriginally posted by Clippy View Post
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I miss Sue from accounts.
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