Reply to: Antisocial b'stds

[Platypus]

They don't pander to weird stuff here, you eat what you're given or tough tulip, starve...

That's what we should do over here too ... non-Kosher non-Halal pork for everyone or firk orf

[darmstadt]

Will the food be Halal ?

They don't pander to weird stuff here, you eat what you're given or tough tulip, starve...

[NotAllThere]

I'm often left off the invitation list. But it makes no difference. If I think I should be there, I'll go. If I don't then I won't.

I remember some contractors kicked up a fuss about charging when we were invited to a country hotel with a Michelin starred restaurant for a Friday evening, with paintball for the Saturday afternoon. How anyone could complain about having the opportunity to shoot the project manager in the back...

[FiveTimes]

An email came round at ClientCo today announcing a Christmas buffet lunch in the office next Monday.

A few minutes later came a Reply All: "Will the food be Halal?"

Hardly surprising considering where you are based.

[Platypus]

I don't think in all my years of contracting I have ever been invited to a works Christmas do although I have been invited to the teams 'yearly thank you for doing a great job' breakfast next week...There will be coffee, halve hahn (although a hahn is a chicken this is actually half a roll with cheese on it, a Cologne thing), mett brotchen (raw mince meat (tartar possibly) and onions and gherkins) and some other stuff

Will the food be Halal ?

[cailin maith]

coffee, halve hahn (although a hahn is a chicken this is actually half a roll with cheese on it, a Cologne thing), mett brotchen (raw mince meat (tartar possibly) and onions and gherkins) and some other stuff

Sounds.... erm, delicious. You won't want to miss that eh? And for breakfast too

[darmstadt]

I don't think in all my years of contracting I have ever been invited to a works Christmas do although I have been invited to the teams 'yearly thank you for doing a great job' breakfast next week...There will be coffee, halve hahn (although a hahn is a chicken this is actually half a roll with cheese on it, a Cologne thing), mett brotchen (raw mince meat (tartar possibly) and onions and gherkins) and some other stuff

[Platypus]

Just noticed in clientCo manager's calendar that he's going to lunch with the agent next week. Not that I want to have lunch with the pair of them, but would have been nice to have been asked.

How would they be able to talk about you if you're there?

Don't be silly!

[mudskipper]

Maybe my agent will part with 0.1% of the commission he's made from me and buy me lunch.

Just noticed in clientCo manager's calendar that he's going to lunch with the agent next week. Not that I want to have lunch with the pair of them, but would have been nice to have been asked.

[vetran]

been here 10 years as a permie, still don't get invited to departmental lunches - hurrah!

[Old Hack]

I tried to take my bosses wife up the Oxo tower.

Neither were too pleased.

I find parties tedious at the best of times. Making me go to one with people whom I work with is a different kind of horror.

IR35 friendly too, which we love.

[mudskipper]

An email came round at ClientCo today announcing a Christmas buffet lunch in the office next Monday.

A few minutes later came a Reply All: "Will the food be Halal?"

Actually, I wonder if it's possible everyone assumes I get all the emails organising social functions, and think I'm the anti-social b'std for not responding.

[NickFitz]

An email came round at ClientCo today announcing a Christmas buffet lunch in the office next Monday.

A few minutes later came a Reply All: "Will the food be Halal?"

[BrilloPad]

That'd be me then. I believe there are lots of others - I've just never met them. MaccyD's it is.

As long as you tell the permies its somewhere high class.

Maybe my agent will part with 0.1% of the commission he's made from me and buy me lunch.

Only way I ever found was to refuse to sign any contract or extension accept over lunch.

I once persuaded an agent to take me and Mrs BP up the oxo tower. But his boss refused. Chaepskate.

[mudskipper]

Have a contractor only party. Somewhere really high class.

That'd be me then. I believe there are lots of others - I've just never met them. MaccyD's it is.

Maybe my agent will part with 0.1% of the commission he's made from me and buy me lunch.