Reply to: First week on a new contract

[conned tractor]

Toilets, I DREAM of doing a contract that has toilets.

blooming youngsters of today, want it all on a plate they do. now when I was a lad......

It was the 10 minutes drive to digs that were the scary moments. I felt your pain earlier in the week but didn't have the energy to reply.

[conned tractor]

sounds like permie talk pardner....

How dare you, just some perfectly innocent IR35 friendly contractor arse kissing.

[SueEllen]

Is that a real marathon or an SY marathon?

Real marathons - that you run for 26.2 miles and wish at 22 miles you hadn't been so foolish as to even think of the idea then you realise you have to give all that chariteee money you raised back if you didn't finish.

I went for a permie interview years ago based in Farnborough - overlooking the airfield.

The team were all plane spotters and asked If I was - I said no.

Still got the job - agent wasn't best pleased when I turned it down though - tosser kept on calling me.

That's cos they thought they could convert you.

[Clippy]

I managed to get a few contracts just talking about participating in marathons. Yes some of the team I worked with had similar weird hobbies as well......

This one I think I'm suppose to like watching football as well as drinking beer.

Is that a real marathon or an SY marathon?

oh no. I work with a plane spotter.

he went on hols to france last year, i asked him about notre dame, champs elysee, arc de triumph etc etc. - nothing
he never left the airport, he spent the whole time looking at the planes on the tarmac

I went for a permie interview years ago based in Farnborough - overlooking the airfield.

The team were all plane spotters and asked If I was - I said no.

Still got the job - agent wasn't best pleased when I turned it down though - tosser kept on calling me.

[EternalOptimist]

I managed to get a few contracts just talking about participating in marathons. Yes some of the team I worked with had similar weird hobbies as well......

This one I think I'm suppose to like watching football as well as drinking beer.

oh no. I work with a plane spotter.

he went on hols to france last year, i asked him about notre dame, champs elysee, arc de triumph etc etc. - nothing
he never left the airport, he spent the whole time looking at the planes on the tarmac

[SueEllen]

True I got a contract once because I talked tulip about music for too long, and it turned out over 90% of the IT dept were ex roadies so they didnt want someone who talked too techie

I managed to get a few contracts just talking about participating in marathons. Yes some of the team I worked with had similar weird hobbies as well......

This one I think I'm suppose to like watching football as well as drinking beer.

[2BIT]

Massaging the bosses ego, proving he made the right decision, buying the first round of drinks, etc. Then I might think about applying for the ceng cert but it's a bit worthless at my level.

sounds like permie talk pardner....

[EternalOptimist]

Toilets, I DREAM of doing a contract that has toilets.

blooming youngsters of today, want it all on a plate they do. now when I was a lad......

[doodab]

I've used 50% of my monthly data tariff and I have to recharge by lunchtime, my poor eyes.

Didn't your mum warn you it would make you go blind?

[gingerjedi]

I'm nearing the end of my 2nd week, still no pass or accounts but free coffee and clean toilets.


I've used 50% of my monthly data tariff and I have to recharge by lunchtime, my poor eyes.

[conned tractor]

And your next job is?

Massaging the bosses ego, proving he made the right decision, buying the first round of drinks, etc. Then I might think about applying for the ceng cert but it's a bit worthless at my level.

[Churchill]

Well the bogs are spotless, and the coffee is good.

And your next job is?

[conned tractor]

Well the bogs are spotless, and the coffee is good.

[amcdonald]

Sounds like your boss has the right idea.

Hired on Experience, Fired on Personality.

True I got a contract once because I talked tulip about music for too long, and it turned out over 90% of the IT dept were ex roadies so they didnt want someone who talked too techie

[DaveB]

Fook it's expensive to live in surrey/west sussex (yes, I had looked before), I've had the threppnies for two out of three days and on speaking to the new boss about standards of candidate at interview he said that my interview "wasn't the best, but he thought I'd fit into the team" I'd better start making the tea then .

Sounds like your boss has the right idea.

Hired on Experience, Fired on Personality.