Reply to: (Not) working from home

[voodooflux]

I'm a happy bunny, sitting here in my dressing gown posting offensive rubbish and getting paid for it.

Ever thought of becoming a "journalist" for The Sun ?

[RichardCranium]

yep... smells of a manager wanting to catch you out somehow and therefore justifying their existance?

And in so doing resulting in four hours of charge to ClientCo. I'm a happy bunny, sitting here in my dressing gown posting offensive rubbish and getting paid for it.

[beeker]

You would think, but, why the stream of emails eh?

yep... smells of a manager wanting to catch you out somehow and therefore justifying their existance?

[RichardCranium]

If you're not a permie, how comes they have your home phone number?

Home number? Registered office, please.

'Cos I leave a trail of business cards behind me like a paper snail.

[darmstadt]

Ring, ring.

If you're not a permie, how comes they have your home phone number?

[RichardCranium]

Ring, ring.

"What is the difference between 1 eweek and 1 week"
"Elapsed week."
"OK, bye"

Ker-ching! Another hour.

(That phone called worked out at about £2,500 per hour)

[RichardCranium]

Is she trying to find out if you are 'allowed' to take a day off? Or is she being curious as to how Myco's are run?

The former. Checking up on me probably. She, meanwhile, is also 'working from home' but is a permie so gets paid for watching the telly.

They aren't paying and probably won't give a monkey's as long as it isn't to the detriment of a current project.

That's the best bit: they are paying 'cos they keep emailing me pointless questions.

[RichardCranium]

Just had a two minute phone call. Ker-ching! Into the third chargeable hour.

This is great!

[Xenophon]

I wish I'd said that.

[DimPrawn]

It is because to most Big Co clients, you are an employee. A bloody expensive one who decides they are not going to turn up today.

I wish I'd said that.

[Xenophon]

You would think, but, why the stream of emails eh?

It is because to most Big Co clients, you are an employee. A bloody expensive one who decides they are not going to turn up today.

[DimPrawn]

I'll give you that one. But at the end of the day as long as they aren't paying and you have followed proper protocols for informing your management you will not be in.

They aren't paying and probably won't give a monkey's as long as it isn't to the detriment of a current project. Your manage will think their budget will be slightly better off!

You would think, but, why the stream of emails eh?

[beeker]

To most Big Co clients, you are an employee. A bloody expensive one who decides they are not going to turn up today.

I'll give you that one. But at the end of the day as long as they aren't paying and you have followed proper protocols for informing your management you will not be in.

They aren't paying and probably won't give a monkey's as long as it isn't to the detriment of a current project. Your manage will think their budget will be slightly better off!

[Churchill]

I'm working from home today.

"They" think I'm working on their stuff...



I am a staffer after all...

[Xenophon]

These exchanges are normally followed by a brief email from Human Remains stating that employees can only take time off if their fill in a holiday form and get their manager to sign it.

Then followed by a call from the agent saying you have been fired for being awol.

HTH