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Recent content by 2BIT
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Ever seen a permie take a pay-cut?
well yes but it is often positions that get made redundant not people, having worked for one of the large companies who have announced redundancies recently I can say that it's the only way to make the business more efficient given the amount of dead wood there... -
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Contract Got - Accommodation - Painful :(
well if you upped your salary you would just pay more tax on it so surely you would leave your salary as is .... are there no other properties? -
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Catch 22 (the Windoze pc version).
yikes, I've been meaning to use acronis for a disk image of my music laptop which has years of compositions on - the laptop is so important to me that I spent a whole month fixing it after an SP update corrupted windows - looks like Ill have to use a different app as that ^ is exactly what I'm... -
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Make space for a little one
did a similar, knocked back a 8 monther for similar reasons congrats on the new baby and enjoy the bench, im hoping i can take dec off but war chest has depleted -
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Yaaaay, it's Friday...what you up to?
taking my guitar to be fixed tomorrow, buying ableton, then out the prowl that night, sunday my sis is cooking a roast so just need to sort tonight out... -
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Currently watching....
there was that guy on the doc who said he didn't think pf them as jumpers, more that they had literally been driven out due to the unbareable heat... -
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BA trying to act like my manager
he's new so trying to carve out his space by the sounds of it, I'd file under ignore but no need to get funny with him. If he does chase you for it just reply politely that as it's essentially a document for you you will finish it when you make the time to finish it, you know your sorry but if... -
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Currently watching....
was really good yet still so unbelievable, that doc and the one the two french dudes did '9/11' were the best ones I've seen... in fact the french one is one of the best docs i've seen period.. -
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Poisoned chalice project
that's what all the cowboys say :) Deep thinker? perfectionist? BA? hmmm something doesn't reconcile here... :) -
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Poisoned chalice project
again tis true but to be honest i thought you were a fellow cowboy and not an excel jockie :grin and no offence to BA's either, some of my best friends are BA's... :) -
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Breakfast at desk
cant face eating first so desk is fine, eating all day at your desk is annoying... worked with a running nut once who literally sat there and ate all day- don't why it wound me up but it did... -
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Poisoned chalice project
yeahtis true,i tend to be the one who actually ends up delivering something, I would love to attend meetings, write poorly constructed documents and design flakey excel models all day but turns out you can earn more doing work instead :) so yeah your project could be a lot worse, man up dude :) -
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Poisoned chalice project
try working on an 'Agile' fixed price project with no Agreed Requirements, WBS, Delivery Schedule, User Acceptance Process or Risk Register - if you do find yourself working such a project like I did man up and kick some arse...... then increase your rate for the next renewal last project i was... -
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What do people here think of Mexican drug cartels?
I've heard they tend to better at Spanish than the Slavic/Arab Cartels but that could just be a myth... -
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'Coaching' a test manager
whilst I agree I had a similar case with a completely incompetent test manager who was only introducing extra risk to the project, having spurred my offer to design some tests for him I let him carry on as is and well it all went tits up and he was removed from the project.... normally I...
