Reply to: IT Contractors

[el duder]

ISTR you were so happy to get that contract as well. Let this be a lesson to you.

what not to be happy when i get my next contract?

[wendigo100]

glad to be out of there, walked with £4k tucked in my back pocket and no more working in the public sector for me!!

ISTR you were so happy to get that contract as well. Let this be a lesson to you.

[Churchill]

yep i got out of there.

after having contracted for just round 4 years, this one was without doubt the worst and horrific IT departments i've ever worked in.

my first week i found out that 2 IT employees had been dismissed and prosecuted for selling company equipment on ebay.

within 2 months the technical architect had taken a physical swipe at me..

by 3 months of intranet work, twice the system went down, twice the system had to be installed, twice all the data was lost forever.

the technical architect, was a bully, and somehow had the ear of the manager and never once got the blame or pressure for the technical problems.

the place turned into a blaming culture, everyone pointing the finger at everyone else, and it turned really mucky.

in the end the content manager, of all people got the blame!!

glad to be out of there, walked with £4k tucked in my back pocket and no more working in the public sector for me!!

You sound like a whining little tulipe. Are you related to Franko by any chance?

[MarillionFan]

Actually, if you're getting phone abuse, then you may as well go to the police.

[MarillionFan]

sounds to me, you are what we bullies call. A Victim.

Put his head down the toilet boys!!!!

[el duder]

the worst experience

yep i got out of there.

after having contracted for just round 4 years, this one was without doubt the worst and horrific IT departments i've ever worked in.

my first week i found out that 2 IT employees had been dismissed and prosecuted for selling company equipment on ebay.

within 2 months the technical architect had taken a physical swipe at me..

by 3 months of intranet work, twice the system went down, twice the system had to be installed, twice all the data was lost forever.

the technical architect, was a bully, and somehow had the ear of the manager and never once got the blame or pressure for the technical problems.

the place turned into a blaming culture, everyone pointing the finger at everyone else, and it turned really mucky.

in the end the content manager, of all people got the blame!!

glad to be out of there, walked with £4k tucked in my back pocket and no more working in the public sector for me!!

[MarillionFan]

"Look, you might be a bit of a fat fecker, but you're not exactly bouncer material. Unless thrown off a 12th floor balcony, that is..."

Cough, cough. I do remember a time in the Park Hotel in Teddington, that I had to hold off the Arch Bishop of Canterbury from giving you a kicking after you kicked that crippled Nun's walking stick away while you cowered behind the sofa crying it was an accident.

So dont you talk to me about hard men right!

[Mordac]

Thats assuming your a big bruiser bully like my self.

Look, you might be a bit of a fat fecker, but you're not exactly bouncer material. Unless thrown off a 12th floor balcony, that is...

[MarillionFan]

Give us the hotmail account, we'll try and hack in to it!!

[privateeye]

just to get the point across.

i have been a little niave. when i recieved the abusive txts, i emailed the said IT employee with a very threatening email.

the abuse has been coming in on my hotmail account and via txt message to my personal phone and my girlfriends phone.

Keep all the emails and text messages as evidence, if they are coming from a work place you can make a direct comlaint there. You can also complain directly to the ISP/phone company. They have a set procedure for dealing with this type of thing. The other option is the Police.

The one problem you have is that you have said you sent them a very threatening email so you need to be careful how you complain.

I would suggest as a first option to reply that you have kept all correspondence and will involve the Police, the employer, and Phone/ISP company ie instantiate criminal proceedings - this guy seems a jerk leaving such a trail as email and txts and you may need to remind him that he has left a trail. You could just go straight ahead and make a formal complaint anyway. All calls even if the number is withheld can be traced by the Exchange.

[stackpole]

You seem to have had a lot of trouble with this job. Is it the one Rebecca Loos helped you get? If so I'd blame her.

[MarillionFan]

I think you need to follow up with the threatening email, go around and confront him in front of everyone.

Take him down, TAKE HIM DOWN!!!!

[cojak]

Tony's right - this needs to be tackled asap - don't delete the messages and start digging into the Data Protection act.

I think Privateeye might be of some help to you with this if he's around.

[el duder]

that did cross my mind.

just to get the point across.

i have been a little niave. when i recieved the abusive txts, i emailed the said IT employee with a very threatening email.

the abuse has been coming in on my hotmail account and via txt message to my personal phone and my girlfriends phone.

[MarillionFan]

and how does this abusive crap come through. Email from hotmail accounts or work accounts, attempts at hacking etc.

Personally in situations like this(but Ive never been in it) I would have gone back to the office and punched the offending oik so ******* hard, he wouldnt have been sending you abusive email as he'd be in hospital.

Thats assuming your a big bruiser bully like my self.