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Originally posted by suityou01 View PostWord of advice. Folks on here won't take advice from you as you're a muppet, so you can reinvest that time in sucking off your yank client by bending to their every whim.
Or grow a pair and enforce some way of working so they know who's boss.
#justsayin
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostDon't, don't, don't take a job where you are required to cover hours on the West coast of the US
(1) It takes you 2-3 hours every morning to catch up with the emails from the night before
(2) The fookers set all of your meetings up from 8am (or 4pm your time)
(3) The working day just goes on, and on and on and ******* on.
MF in 'just finished his last '5' minute call from 9.30 with someone who wanted to have a 'quick' chat.
Or grow a pair and enforce some way of working so they know who's boss.
#justsayin
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Originally posted by KentPhilip View PostSo what's the total number of hours you're working every week?
I'm considering whether to apply for a job in the US, but I have suspicions that they work you like a dog..
Someone else had some bad code in one of the libraries, but he was not answering the phone.
They wanted to extend, I said no.
This was the same project where the had to 'can' 6 bobs, with fake papers.
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostDon't, don't, don't take a job where you are required to cover hours on the West coast of the US
(1) It takes you 2-3 hours every morning to catch up with the emails from the night before
(2) The fookers set all of your meetings up from 8am (or 4pm your time)
(3) The working day just goes on, and on and on and ******* on.
MF in 'just finished his last '5' minute call from 9.30 with someone who wanted to have a 'quick' chat.
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So what's the total number of hours you're working every week?
I'm considering whether to apply for a job in the US, but I have suspicions that they work you like a dog..
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Word of Advice from someone who knows
Don't, don't, don't take a job where you are required to cover hours on the West coast of the US
(1) It takes you 2-3 hours every morning to catch up with the emails from the night before
(2) The fookers set all of your meetings up from 8am (or 4pm your time)
(3) The working day just goes on, and on and on and ******* on.
MF in 'just finished his last '5' minute call from 9.30 with someone who wanted to have a 'quick' chat.Tags: None
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