To Storm Out or Not?

[MarillionFan]

I started a few weeks at a place and was given a tulip chair and a so so desk. I did half a day on the tulip chair and turned around and said 'Rightio. Not happening, this chair is a health and safety nightmare i'm getting a different chair' There was nothing else in the room(all the chairs were tulip).

'Well we've all got tulip chairs' was the reply.

'Well, that's good for you, but it isn't good enough for me' and I wondered off towards the Directors corridor.

Ten minutes later I came back with a massive comfy chair and had made the bastards order me a proper chair with proper support.

A bloke in the office who is 6'6'' was gutted. I always wanted that chair(he whinged). I have been looking at that for a year.

'Fortune favours the bold my friend. You can have it when they get me the new one!'

I bloody hate tulip chairs!!

[swamp]

He's gloated a bit about his desk in the pub to the other contractors in the past it has to be said.

Good work

When you are made to move in with the 'proles you will no doubt take a bit of stick, but you'll you'll no doubt become a band of revolutionary brothers showing solidarity against the forces of permie oppression....

Actually I couldn't think of anything more dumb than treating contractors badly as it will only serve to make you less productive. Although it may help on your IR35 status!

[Spacecadet]

Although it may help on your IR35 status!

WSS

Desks, desk phones, company mobiles and all the rest are for permies.

real contractors stroll in at 10 and then spend the next hour looking for a suitable desk to use that day. At which point its time to go and take a leisurely lunch break, preferably with someone from top management, like the CEO or his top heavy PA if he's otherwise engaged.

[darmstadt]

I did a contract where I was the only person sitting in a cellar full of junk next to the computer room (well the backup system.) I did have 3 bobs opposite me for a while but they were removed pretty quickly when it was found out they didn't know what they were doing. The only window was a good metre out of my reach but I could open it but as I was 150 metres away from the Porsche test track, all I would hear all day long was noisy engines and screeching tyres. The room next door was full of models of all the cars they were thinking of making but cameras weren't allowed otherwise I could have topped up the nice rate I was on.

[darmstadt]

Another contract I did was in Wellingborough, thats a tuliphole I can tell you (there were cars there as well, tenuously, involved as Cosworth were over the road and used to test their engines at night.)

[EternalOptimist]

I did one contract, I was the only guy on a floor with 400 babes. It was so packed that when I walked down the aisle, my elbows on both sides bobbled their sticky out boobies like wind chimes.

Then I was ordered to crawl around under their mini beskirted desks to connect their cables up, talk about looking into the crack of doom


but then I woke up. it was all a dream

[MarillionFan]

I did one contract, I was the only guy on a floor with 400 babes. It was so packed that when I walked down the aisle, my elbows on both sides bobbled their sticky out boobies like wind chimes.

Then I was ordered to crawl around under their mini beskirted desks to connect their cables up, talk about looking into the crack of doom


but then I woke up. it was all a dream

You have some odd dreams...

[d000hg]

Bring your own desk in, some big executive oak affair. Good for IR35.

[Platypus]

Wellingborough, thats a tuliphole I can tell you

Ha ha LOL !!!! That's not exactly a million miles from my home office. Aye, tis the biggest tulipehole in the county, tis true.

Were you with the racing boys at RML, or Belkin? Are there any gigs in N'hants, apart from Barclaycard?

[CheeseSlice]

Bring your own desk in, some big executive oak affair. Good for IR35.

Something like this?