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Call from the agency - renewal will be heading my way next week. Seven months plus the £20 p/d the agent knocked off when he did the usual "the client won't pay that" routine.
Now just to decide if I want to continue this or look for something else. I've told them I'd need to increase the amount of WFH too so that I'm only on site if I actually need to be here. Given that we're hotdesking away from the client teams we need to communicate with, and that most of my work is combing through configs and asset data I don't think that's completely unreasonable.
Hmm. No word from agent man yet and he doesn't seem to want to make contact with me.
Had a discussion with the client last week about days on site - they can't make up their mind whether they want me on site Mon-Weds, Tues-Thurs or Mon-Thurs. They've changed it several times over the past fortnight. Sadly there's little discussion involved and the pendulum seems to be swinging back towards presenteeism with client dictating days and hours. That's not really the direction I want it to go...
I gather that one of the End ClientCos doesn't like their staff WFH and wants them in the office, and so is trying to push it down to all consultancies too, and at the same time have rearranged the desk plan to cut the number of hotdesks to four (and around eight of us wanting them regularly) in the corner of the office with the worst wireless signal.
At least there's only one more week left this year - I'm offline for the year at the end of the 18th.
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