Reply to: Another coffee break

[Ticktock]

Waited 3 weeks one time sans laptop or sign-on. Just had 4 months getting splinters so no way I was going to stay off. Settled into having long morning and afternoon coffee breaks with a couple of chaps in the same boat at the on-site costa. Found it very hard to break that habit when the kit did turn up due to the work being beyond boring. Financial crisis hit 3 months later and was given 8 hours notice to leave...
Not my best contract experience !

You got paid didn't you?
Sounds alright for me - like taking a break between contracts, but still being able to invoice for it.

[lukemg]

Waited 3 weeks one time sans laptop or sign-on. Just had 4 months getting splinters so no way I was going to stay off. Settled into having long morning and afternoon coffee breaks with a couple of chaps in the same boat at the on-site costa. Found it very hard to break that habit when the kit did turn up due to the work being beyond boring. Financial crisis hit 3 months later and was given 8 hours notice to leave...
Not my best contract experience !

[Freamon]

Production system at previous place had the same superuser password as the test environment ..... because the database was originally replicated from test.

[lilelvis2000]

Not surprised. My laptop HD blew and it took 10 days for the replacement to show up. In the meantime my Lan ID was killed due to lack of use, my VPN account was also killed, and IT began wondering where the old laptop was..I gave it back to them. Two months on, still no sorted.

[Boney M]

Most gigs I go in, log into things using default post-install usernames and passwords and create my own accounts.

One place phoned me up four months after I left to ask if I happened to know the usernames and passwords for a production system I had never accessed. Whoops.

Had a mate who left a company and built a server and left them the local admin password. A few months later someone removed the roles to the server and only way back in was the local admin account. They could not find the password, so called him and he said he could remember it but they would have to pay 500 pound and email confirmation and he will invoice and then provide it. They did as well.

[doodab]

Most gigs I go in, log into things using default post-install usernames and passwords and create my own accounts.

One place phoned me up four months after I left to ask if I happened to know the usernames and passwords for a production system I had never accessed. Whoops.

[Boney M]

Some gigs I have gone in and they have given me their login to create my own account, I kid you not

[stek]

Last gig I got my remote login token three days before I finished the 8th month contract....

[ctdctd]

7th day completed, no login. Retail sector.

Not worried though as everyone uses everyone elses account anyway.

[Old Greg]

Social services contracts, normally all sorted in 48 hours.

My current NHS gig, I got the call to see if I was available on the Friday lunchtime, started 9 a.m. on Monday and my log in was waiting for me.

[socialworker]

Social services contracts, normally all sorted in 48 hours.

[vetran]

maybe they're short administrators.
Probably because there are no futures in user provisioning.

Probably went long on passwords?

[CheeseSlice]

maybe they're short administrators.
Probably because there are no futures in user provisioning.

[Mephisto]

Always reminds me the story of a guy I knew started with a bank and all his equipment and logins were waiting for him on gig day 1. The worrying false sense of efficiency soon abated when he tried logging in and they'd set all his profiles wrong which still had a 5 day lead time to rectify.

Love this game sometimes...

[Old Greg]

Typical bloody private sector inefficiency.