Grim Places to Work

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

What's the 51 week rule?

Is that sarcasm? If not it is the rule that Barclays have for all contractors i.e. they are not allowed to stay beyond 51 weeks without taking a 3 month break.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Sounds like you're in the same place as me, awful place. I took up smoking again just to give me an excuse to get away from them every now and then and even signed back up to CUK.
My advice (which I think was given above) is drink heavily in the evenings so that you feel so tulip the next morning that you don't want any of them talking to you anyway and then huge amounts of coffee to get through the afternoon. Oh, and of course CUK and BBC news help and trying to find a Googlewhack can relieve hours of tedium.

I'm waving right now, come and say hello and we can go and have a mutual whinge.

Luckily these gigs aren't common, trick is to lay back and think of invoicing.


(Oi you sniggering at the back there, I said WHINGE!)

Where are you then?

[gingerjedi]

Is that sarcasm? If not it is the rule that Barclays have for all contractors i.e. they are not allowed to stay beyond 51 weeks without taking a 3 month break.

No sarcasm intended, how am I supposed to know client specific rules?

[alluvial]

Where are you then?

Over here by the window.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

No sarcasm intended, how am I supposed to know client specific rules?

Cool that's why I posted the response - was not sure. I just thought it was a well known thing with Barclays being such a large company with 1000s of contractors at their sites.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Over here by the window.

This place is to grim for windows - I guess they are supposed to be windows but they don't serve their purpose when they are so dirty that you can't properly see through them.

[alluvial]

This place is to grim for windows - I guess they are supposed to be windows but they don't serve their purpose when they are so dirty that you can't properly see through them.

Ah, must be more than one tuliphole like this then. At least we have windows and the view isn't too bad either. Ooh, and there are a few prime letching spots as well, so I suppose it isn't all bad.

[Durbs]

I ended up at a place like that, leading a team of 3 permies who all desperately wanted and felt they were entitled to the vacant lead role. Was told on my first morning "just to warn you, we haven't told the guys you are starting and we dont think it will go down very well". Great! And indeed they turned out to be like a bunch of toddlers with constant huffs, sulks, whispering in corners and they had obviously made a little pact to make things difficult. I basically spent my days wanting to twat them.

I jibbed it, I could have worked at it, and you could argue that they "won", but i've been lucky in my contracting career to have always worked with really decent people so I just considered it a waste of my time trying to deliver a project with these clowns. Lifes too short to spend my days somewhere I dont want to be and am not wanted!

[eek]

Let me guess, one of the Caudwell mobile phone centres in Staffs, and you're all crammed into some nissen hut or barn, chained to your desks, with grim faced overseers pacing up and down with whips poised. Been there, done that, although I escaped after 3 months

Weakling. I did 18. Much of which was spent running three lines of oracle code to stop sales men reserving stock they shouldn't be selling to their mates.

Because of that it was actually rather pleasant as the sales directors liked me and just focussed their hated on everyone else in IT.

As for what is happening there nothing would surprise me but must of the people I knew there are now in the betting industry.

[amcdonald]

Is that sarcasm? If not it is the rule that Barclays have for all contractors i.e. they are not allowed to stay beyond 51 weeks without taking a 3 month break.

Unless they're ICTs