New Contract not working out

[BolshieBastard]

Started my new place on Monday, first day was left on a office chair with no desk till after lunch. Finally got a desk and I have been placed away from all the devs and in amongst support staff who take calls all day. Apparently there were no spare desks where the devs are. Raised it with the dev lead and he said there are no desks. Also had a one page hand scrawled spec to work from.

Seriously!?

I've been at places where Ive had no desk and system access for 3 weeks.

MTFU or GTF.

[louie]

Man up or **** off, in fact forget the former and concentrate on the latter!

HTH

I know you would suck off 20 men for a fiver, but some of us have self respect bro.

[SimonMac]

I know you would suck off 20 men for a fiver, but some of us have self respect bro.

I have all the self respect I need, I don't need a desk where I can chat to other people, I don't need fully detailed instructions on what I am to do, I don't need to whine on a public forum, I DO need to.....



And am doing it very well at the moment!

[alreadypacked]

I know you would suck off 20 men for a fiver, but some of us have self respect bro.

You also have to learn not react so quickly. The number of times I have sat in a meeting with a client and stopped myself saying "are you for real"

You were expecting something different and you feel let down and angry. Don't let is show, get a plan together, and smile

P.S. Don't feed the trolls.

HTH

[darmstadt]

Same happened to me. For 3 months I was located in a glass walled office called the "green house", on my own, in the middle of a busy trading floor. It had no AC and was sweaty as hell -there were half a dozen machines in there alongside me. All the TVs were attached to the glass outside, so most people were looking in my direction all day, which was very distracting as well as noisy.

Actually thats called 'the Zoo'

[louie]

I have all the self respect I need, I don't need a desk where I can chat to other people, I don't need fully detailed instructions on what I am to do, I don't need to whine on a public forum, I DO need to.....



And am doing it very well at the moment!

There are a few things I expect a decent client to provide if they insist I work in their premises, a decent desk and chair, and if possible near other people in my team. For example would dev contractors be happy if there were placed in the janitors office or in reception?

[louie]

You also have to learn not react so quickly. The number of times I have sat in a meeting with a client and stopped myself saying "are you for real"

You were expecting something different and you feel let down and angry. Don't let is show, get a plan together, and smile

P.S. Don't feed the trolls.

HTH

Thanks, that is good advice, just needed to vent.

[d000hg]

So until lunch you were sat on a chair literally in the middle of a room with no desk, or what? Why didn't you just go find an empty desk and sit at it... or even go and sit in the canteen.

[alreadypacked]

There are a few things I expect a decent client to provide if they insist I work in their premises, a decent desk and chair, and if possible near other people in my team. For example would dev contractors be happy if there were placed in the janitors office or in reception?

Are you a contractor of permie?

[SimonMac]

There are a few things I expect a decent client to provide if they insist I work in their premises, a decent desk and chair, and if possible near other people in my team. For example would dev contractors be happy if there were placed in the janitors office or in reception?

Depends, how pretty are the girls in reception?