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I'd be up for a beer but it depends on whether I stay on the bench. If I buckle and return to ex-clientco then I'll be swopping East Mids for Wiltshire
Bit further out than that, about 50-60 mins NE from Leicester, but that's by car, which defeats the point of beer. Trains are no hope from here. Minimum two and a half hours each way and last train home would be at 20:00.
"Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.
Not yet - the contract is sitting on the printer waiting for me to sign so I can return to ex-clientco. However hopeful direct-client is letting me know today whether I have a sniff.
If its a fat no then I will be packing my bags and heading back tomorrow morning
So, any news from direct client yet?
"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch." - Orson Welles
Although the cold's vastly better than it was on Saturday, it's still getting to me. Ah well, it'll be even better tomorrow. By the end of the week I may even feel capable of going for a pint
I asked the NewClientCorp chap what the desired working hours are.
"Oh, pretty flexible," he said. "I like my team to be here between nine and four, so you could start at eight and leave at four, or start at nine and leave at five - it's up to you, really!"
I wanted to grab him by the shoulders and shake him, shouting "THAT'S NOT FLEXIBLE! Ten to six! I like to work ten to six!"
But it seemed a bit imprudent on the first morning
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