Reply to: Would you work in Swindon?

[wurzel]

Yes, so long as it isn't a certain Building Society where I once worked as a permie, reason being because they probably wouldn't have me back!

Just to explain, it was that job which finally pushed me over the edge and got me into this contracting lark. It's not that I'm not a team player but there the emphasis on the team was way over the top IMO. Regular team building activities, all the classics like raft building etc, normally followed by a pizza in Pizza Express where you would have to suffer the humiliation of standing up in front of everyone (and the rest of the punters) and tell the assembled group who in the team inspires you the most and why. The final straw was when they suggested doing group huddles on Monday morning before we started work.

[jimjamuk]

I worked in Swindon some time back. But then, it was in the C & W datacentre and there were no windows, so I could have been anywhere.

Foxes was OK too...

well they have moved everyone upstairs now.... swindon in its full glory everywhere you look......

i think I preferred it in the dark room downstairs

[RichardCranium]

I thought I had but after checking my records it was Slough, both begin with an 'S'

So does Tulip.

[Churchill]

I'm already in Swindon.

And mighty glad to be off the bench I am too!

However, I'm looking forward to the weekend and it's only Wednesday...

You sound like a permie...

Not at all, just missing my "home comforts "...

Never mind, it's "See you tomorrow day!!!"

[Sysman]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/c...-hometown.html

Aaargh! That article reminded me of XTC, who I thought were dire.

[darmstadt]

I thought I had but after checking my records it was Slough, both begin with an 'S' and are west of London so it was easy to get confused. I remember I stayed at one of the Holiday Inns near Heathrow and the office was over the road from a PC World (I think) who tried to sell me cassette tapes for a 4mm DAT as they didn't know what I was talking about

[ratewhore]

I worked in Swindon some time back. But then, it was in the C & W datacentre and there were no windows, so I could have been anywhere.

Foxes was OK too...

[cailin maith]

Are those restaurants accompanied by suitable innes or luxurious lodgings appropriate to the discerning contractor?

Help me here, I'm still deciding what to vote.

You are a contractor - if push came to shove you'd work any-*******-where.

At the moment, I'd consider working in Afganistan

tim

Well said.

When you are in the position where you NEED to work. Swindon isn't an issue.

[Mich the Tester]

At the moment, I'd consider working in Afganistan

tim

Well, so would I if I hadn't finally found a gig, but Swindon's really pushing it.

[tim123]

At the moment, I'd consider working in Afganistan

tim

[Mich the Tester]

No, there are no good ones in Swindon. You need to travel a couple of miles to some of the surrounding small towns and villages such as Highworth, Brinkworth, Marlborough and Shrivenham etc.

Are those restaurants accompanied by suitable innes or luxurious lodgings appropriate to the discerning contractor?

Help me here, I'm still deciding what to vote.

[DimPrawn]

Are there any good restaurants in Swindon?

I mean, really good, not DP's local Harvester.

No, there are no good ones in Swindon. You need to travel a couple of miles to some of the surrounding small towns and villages such as Highworth, Brinkworth, Marlborough and Shrivenham etc.

[Mich the Tester]

Are there any good restaurants in Swindon?

I mean, really good, not DP's local Harvester.

[Doggy Styles]

I drove there for a footy match last season. The footy ground is on the side of Swindon I come in from, so I didn't see much of the place. What did I miss?

PS There's a Don Rogers stand in the ground. Did the bloke who wrote it come from Swindon?

PPS Sorry, I'm thinking of Buck Rogers.

[BlackenedBiker]

I'd work there just so I could go and admire DimPrawn's mansion.

Prision Lingo???