New Contract not working out

[SupremeSpod]

If they couldn't build a desk they probably shouldn't have been hired anyway

Absolutely.

I had a permy working for me in Cambridge who was being a twat because a wire had broken on an optical sensor. I told him to "stop wringing his hands like a ******* fairy and go and find a soldering iron!".

Mind you, he did complain to HR 3 days later. Luckily I'd already mentioned the incident to my boss over a beer while celebrating the early delivery of the project. Some people really do need a hobnail boot up their arse!

[darmstadt]

I worked in Madrid, it depends on the company, international company usually has more English speakers.

Mine was for a branch of the government, the bureau of statistics or somesuch department. We would start late, then long lunch break followed by working late into the evening. Although I was in Madrid we had to have a day off in the middle as there were elections in Barcelona and they left me in the middle of town on a Wednesday and everything was shut except for small sandwich bar where the oriental bloke behind the counter spoke English. Big ****-off invoice though, probably why they're up tulip creek now....

[OwlHoot]

Normal for most places IMHO.

Never ceases to amaze me how much clients waste cos they cant be arsed to get a desk/ login/ access sorted in advance. ...

WHS

and I've lost count of the number of times (well it's one or maybe two) when I've been assigned a carpy old 486 PC with 1 Gbytes of memory to work with.

[cojak]

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

...says the self-pitying whiner.

[Troll]

I can top all of that. My current gig is in Halifax

That was a great project. Pity it was in Hull.

Yes you win

Fook that has to be a tight call... Halifax or Hull for the arse end of UK for a contract!

[darmstadt]

Fook that has to be a tight call... Halifax or Hull for the arse end of UK for a contract!

I did a contract in Wellingborough once which is pretty damn grim (also done Swindon, Slough and the Elephant and Castle, all not exactly delightful)

[aussielong]

From reading this thread and the incoherent ramblings of SupremeSpod, who appears to have worked in Hull (does *anyone* work in Hull?), I feel it's worth drawing a distinction between contractors who operate in the City of London and other financial centres, and everyone else.

Contracting in Hull? How can that possibly be good? I'd want two grand a day for that. I mean, if you tout around the City at least you don't have to have a Gold Account with Little Chef to make it economical. You can buy a house and live in it. What what.

[nomadd]

Absolutely.

I had a permy working for me in Cambridge who was being a twat because a wire had broken on an optical sensor. I told him to "stop wringing his hands like a ******* fairy and go and find a soldering iron!".

Mind you, he did complain to HR 3 days later. Luckily I'd already mentioned the incident to my boss over a beer while celebrating the early delivery of the project. Some people really do need a hobnail boot up their arse!

Worked opposite a permie who spent all day on the phone arguing with his wife. He tried to start an argument with me one day and I simply replied, "Don't talk to me like that, I'm not your wife." Next thing I know, I'm called into a meeting with the head of HR and my Manager; permie had gone over the Manager's head and put in an official complaint. I explained the context of the comment and left it at that. Two weeks later, said permie was fired. I later learned that HR had interviewed everyone in the office and discovered this guys phone calls were pi55ing everyone off. Sometimes the permie-complains-to-HR stunt backfires badly.

[TestMangler]

From reading this thread and the incoherent ramblings of SupremeSpod, who appears to have worked in Hull (does *anyone* work in Hull?), I feel it's worth drawing a distinction between contractors who operate in the City of London and other financial centres, and everyone else.

Contracting in Hull? How can that possibly be good? I'd want two grand a day for that. I mean, if you tout around the City at least you don't have to have a Gold Account with Little Chef to make it economical. You can buy a house and live in it. What what.

Sorry to add to the growing band, but you're a cock-socket

[escapeUK]

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"

I started doing this. Speaking my mind not saying are you for real. I now seem to be in all the top meetings as people like my insightful brutal honesty.