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    #51
    Originally posted by Bunk View Post
    Not sure what number we're on, but never ever start crying when you find out you're not getting renewed. I know of 2 people who actually did that, and one of them then proceeded to try to get every other contractor the boot to save their own skin. Result: No chance of them ever being asked back when there was more work.

    Some people just aren't cut out to be contractors.
    On the other hand try not to bounce out of the room skipping, whistling a happy tune and smiling when the PM explains that you won't have to go back to the toxic project at the end of the month...
    "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
    - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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      #52
      Originally posted by cojak View Post
      On the other hand try not to bounce out of the room skipping, whistling a happy tune and smiling when the PM explains that you won't have to go back to the toxic project at the end of the month...
      Why not? Surely this is one of the real, real joys when you're a contractor?
      Last edited by eek; 27 September 2011, 11:58. Reason: client firewall tulip.
      merely at clientco for the entertainment

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        #53
        It's probbly not a good idea, at your leaving speech, to offer a box of roses to the girlies, a box of miniature heros to the boyos, and a fudge 'to those who arnt quite sure' whilst smiling at the gaylord who came out of the closet the week before

        <cough>



        (\__/)
        (>'.'<)
        ("")("") Born to Drink. Forced to Work

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          #54
          Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
          Check the printers twice daily for useful information! Do not however under any circumstance remove it from said printer.
          Don't print porn on the colour printer especially if it prints a banner page first
          Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.

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