Reply to: Never have I ever....

[willendure]

Have you ever fired any parting shots at a client when a contract ended in unhappy circumstances?!

Tempting! But no. Best to behave professionally.

[cojak]

"Wings clipped by a grumpy permie".........I am amazed youv'e never had this before?! I've rarely had a temp post where someone is not grumpy to the temps, usually about wages but sometimes other issues as well.

‘Temps’, eh? I had to let this one through!

[fastrack1966]

"Wings clipped by a grumpy permie".........I am amazed youv'e never had this before?! I've rarely had a temp post where someone is not grumpy to the temps, usually about wages but sometimes other issues as well.

[sadkingbilly]

Don't know about repo but I'm fairly sure that a github is a meeting place for pregnant camels.

[Chris Bryce]

Always* avoided walking off leaving potential future clients with ill-feeling. Just behave professionally and terminate within the contract terms.


*Even when the reason for me walking was a team leader who got shirty about me spending time outside my "lunch hour" on the phone to my mother when I'd learned ny father had had a heart attack. Twat.

[Uncle Albert]

what's a repo? and a GitHub?

Don't know about repo but I'm fairly sure that a github is a meeting place for pregnant camels.

[sadkingbilly]

Nope. Even when I have been fuming and hated working with some people I was always polite and friendly.

Apart from ... this one time when a client refused to pay my invoice but were not smart enough to realise that the code they urgently needed for their only client that made them any money was in one of my repos on GitHub. I removed their access and asked for my money. Although I am not sure if this counts as much as they were furious I was friendly and polite the entire time.

what's a repo? and a GitHub?

[MyUserName]

Nope. Even when I have been fuming and hated working with some people I was always polite and friendly.

Apart from ... this one time when a client refused to pay my invoice but were not smart enough to realise that the code they urgently needed for their only client that made them any money was in one of my repos on GitHub. I removed their access and asked for my money. Although I am not sure if this counts as much as they were furious I was friendly and polite the entire time.

[SussexSeagull]

Only terminated one contract early and in what resembled an exit interview I had to point out to the offending manager that we weren't getting on well, which staggeringly he had failed to notice until that point.

I had one contract that didn't go well that they terminated a couple of weeks early (they tended to do that regardless of your contribution) and one of the senior managers detected I wasn't afraid to speak my mind and gave me the floor to speak a few home truths about his department but it was measured and he did ask,

Generally speaking, smile sweetly, get your time sheet signed (going back a while), hand your pass in, go home and have a bit of a break while looking for something new. Individuals, projects and companies have to work out of themselves they are dysfunctional. No one else can do it for them.

[ladymuck]

No parting shots here. However, when asked by agencies if I'll go back to some clients I just say, "depends on who I'd be working with, there's some interesting characters there".

[DoctorStrangelove]

And they went bust later, so I also had the last laugh.

This is always good. .

[cojak]

I only resigned early from one contract. It was particularly awful, from the agent of the “consultancy” who sold me a pup over the phone, to the consultancy itself who were using a bespoke contract that that they hadn’t paid for (oh how Kate Cotterell and I laughed over that one), to the permies in the client who were fuming that they had to bring in contractors at all, and made absolutely sure we all knew it.

I didn’t need a parting shot as my joy at leaving over the last week did it all for me. Skipping around the place and whistling over the photocopier didn’t make me friends.

And they went bust later, so I also had the last laugh.

[Zigenare]

One particular contract there was a member of the management team who we nicknamed "The Honey Badger" - As a leaving present I left her a mug with a picture of a Honey Badger on it.

One of the best managers I've worked with.

[courtg9000]

Slightly different but I did take great pleasure once in telling a former line manager exactly just why I would not consider him for a role I was hiring and interviewing for.
This was about 3 years after we had worked together previously. It turns out he hadn't worked since being kicked off site on that project.

On another occasion I was asked by a fellow contractor to put in a good word with my boss of the time for a role that was being hired for. I could not in all good conscience do that. He got his wife to phone me up begging me to do it. Again had not worked in some time.

[DoctorStrangelove]

IIRC almost everywhere I've ever worked is shut.

This may or may not be some sort of coincidence. .