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[WTFH]

Is it too early? Yes. Morning all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Yes, I think I'd define that as "Too Fecking Early".

Morning.


Dry.


Colder.


Not raining, hailing, snowing, or murrain of beasting.


Sun coming up like thunder from the murk over Margam.


Venus bright & cheerful.


Monday.


The Lastest Monday of term.


Yay.

[Zigenare]

Morning all

Day 71 of permydom.

Bolton on't 'ill, dull, cloudy and not raining(yet).

Christmas "Do" on Friday - which is nice!

Payday on Friday - which is even nicerer!

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey and a bit chilly (7°C) out today

Wonder if the new kebab shawarma place over the road will finally open later?

[covbob]

Morning all.

Manchester today. Luckily only two more days in this office this year.

[covbob]

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.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning denizens

Grey and a bit chilly (7°C) out today

Wonder if the new kebab shawarma place over the road will finally open later?

6.6 deg in the laundry room earlier with a min of 6.4, living room being 15 deg or so.

But it's dry and vaguely sunny, so good.

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

Wonder if the new kebab shawarma place over the road will finally open later?

It's open!

[DaveB]

It's open!

Well that's tonights dinner sorted then