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Previously on "Do you like to feed the permies?"

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  • VectraMan
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    Permies are always bringing in food (birthday cake and mince pies today). I make sure I eat as much as I can as a way of making up for the lousy rate.

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  • Old Greg
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    I feed them to the lions.

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  • poser
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    always feed the permies... it helpd get things done.

    Any meeting i hold more than an hour and a half i buy munchies for..

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  • Joe1978
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    I eat the mountains of stuff they bring in, this week i will treat them and give you all a spring watch style update

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  • pmeswani
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    Originally posted by KentPhilip View Post
    At least once a week I like to fetch a box of chocolates or some cakes or fruit or other nibbles for the permanent staff to eat during the afternoon. It gives me such a sense of satisfaction to place the bait - er food out on the centre table and watch them all come flocking in like birds to feed on the scraps, and occasionally scuffle amongst themselves for the best morcels (m&m's cause the most fights).
    It is good to feel that as a contractor unencumbered with a mortgage that I have the free cash to pay for these treats, and give those wage slaves something that their other-halves would never allow them to have on their own...
    I started of doing that once every few weeks, but it then went to once every empty box, until the last week of my contract. Took them out for lunch a week before I left and bought them a £40 M&S gift voucher. I spoiled them too much.

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  • BrilloPad
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    Mrs BP cooks for the permies once every 7 weeks. And is doing so this Friday as a special end of term treat.

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  • Bear
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    Originally posted by AlfredJPruffock View Post
    ... put a wee webcam...
    I think that's quite a specialist website

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  • Purple Dalek
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    I buy these monstrous tubs of mixtures, and a small bag of ghanaian boiled ginger sweets. Mix them in. Give them to the permies.

    Oh what fun when one of them gets the ginger.

    They never learn.

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  • Ruprect
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    Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post
    I eat the permies biscuits.
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  • gingerjedi
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    I eat the permies biscuits.

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  • AlfredJPruffock
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    Originally posted by KentPhilip View Post
    At least once a week I like to fetch a box of chocolates or some cakes or fruit or other nibbles for the permanent staff to eat during the afternoon. It gives me such a sense of satisfaction to place the bait - er food out on the centre table and watch them all come flocking in like birds to feed on the scraps, and occasionally scuffle amongst themselves for the best morcels (m&m's cause the most fights).
    It is good to feel that as a contractor unencumbered with a mortgage that I have the free cash to pay for these treats, and give those wage slaves something that their other-halves would never allow them to have on their own...
    You could always put a wee webcam close by so we could watch the fun ...

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  • KentPhilip
    started a topic Do you like to feed the permies?

    Do you like to feed the permies?

    At least once a week I like to fetch a box of chocolates or some cakes or fruit or other nibbles for the permanent staff to eat during the afternoon. It gives me such a sense of satisfaction to place the bait - er food out on the centre table and watch them all come flocking in like birds to feed on the scraps, and occasionally scuffle amongst themselves for the best morcels (m&m's cause the most fights).
    It is good to feel that as a contractor unencumbered with a mortgage that I have the free cash to pay for these treats, and give those wage slaves something that their other-halves would never allow them to have on their own...

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