Reply to: Dress code for day 1?

[gigahoe]

Sainsburys Head Office in Holborn - not wearing a tie can get you marked down in your end of year review (permie, obviously) as "not living the values".

I think they probably behead contractors for the same crime.

Did the tie have oranges all over it? If so I think I had to wear the same when I was 17 with a short sleeved shirt

[MyUserName]

ClientCo has "guiding principles" - each month they have an employee framed and displayed prominently as being the person who most embodies these.

Nasty - they could at least stick to framing photos of the relevant employees! Did they get the idea from Han Solo in The Empire Strikes Back?

[RiCu]

Just turned them down for the contract I am on now, looks like a lucky escape!

In fairness, I liked it there. Permies get the bulk of the corporate BS. Good location, friendly. I certainly wouldn't advise people to discount it.

[SimonMac]

Sainsburys Head Office in Holborn - not wearing a tie can get you marked down in your end of year review (permie, obviously) as "not living the values".

I think they probably behead contractors for the same crime.

Just turned them down for the contract I am on now, looks like a lucky escape!

[SimonMac]

Did you frame a picture of yourself holding your invoice and put it on the wall?

[Old Greg]

- no, it definitely doesn't include contractors. Was quite amused when all the key business users of the system I built got awarded a bottle of bubbly for its successful implementation. I only found out by chance when I saw the pic from their awards day on t'intranet.

Did you frame a picture of yourself holding your invoice and put it on the wall?

[mudskipper]

You work with Netraider then?

- no, it definitely doesn't include contractors. Was quite amused when all the key business users of the system I built got awarded a bottle of bubbly for its successful implementation. I only found out by chance when I saw the pic from their awards day on t'intranet.

[norrahe]

ClientCo has "guiding principles" - each month they have an employee framed and displayed prominently as being the person who most embodies these.

You work with Netraider then?

[Old Greg]

ClientCo has "guiding principles" - each month they have an employee framed and displayed prominently as being the person who most embodies these.

WTF do you work for, the Saudi police? What do they do, plant a litre of vodka in their desk draw and impale them on the front gate?

[Mich the Tester]

ClientCo has "guiding principles" - each month they have an employee framed and displayed prominently as being the person who most embodies these.

Oh dear.

[suityou01]

What would suity wear on his first day in new job?

Budgie-smugglers.

[mudskipper]

Synergy is fine, if its being used to mean what it means. Living the values is ****speak, unless they mean maximizing profit by selling your customers nicely wrapped cheap tulip in which case you understand why they want the permies to wear suits and ties.

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ClientCo has "guiding principles" - each month they have an employee framed and displayed prominently as being the person who most embodies these.

[Mich the Tester]

Synergy is fine, if its being used to mean what it means.

Indeed, Bucky Fuller, systems thinking and emergent behaviour, but I would hazard a guess that 99.99% of people who use the word regularly don't have a bleeding clue what any of that is about.

[doodab]

Synergy is fine, if its being used to mean what it means. Living the values is ****speak, unless they mean maximizing profit by selling your customers nicely wrapped cheap tulip in which case you understand why they want the permies to wear suits and ties.

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[Mich the Tester]

How do you feel about "synergistic paradigm shift"?

Rather nauseous. I'm trying to eat a sandwich, so please stop it.