Reply to: Count to ten and breathe...

[quackhandle]

Yes, had done the hours and even one or two more.

Frosty silence in the office today.

Should be fun for next week.

qh

[wonderboy]

Remote wiped.

[jmo21]

I was in no particular rush to go back, until I received an email on the Friday morning (the final day of my contract) that my personal iPad and iPhone would be wiped clean that day unless I reported to the IT dept right away. This prompt efficiency was a surprise given this was the same department whose incompetence had had me tearing my hair out on more than one occasion during my contract. Being my day off, I was in another city that day. I asked them to delay to the Monday until I could get into the office.

Remote wiped? or did you leave your personal iPad and iPhone in the office?

[psychocandy]

Bite the tongue moment today, informed line manager I will be leaving early tomorrow (as agreed on my first day)

He then proceeds ask what hours I've worked them adds then up and goes and checks it with the PM. "just need to check you've done your hours before we let you go." WFT?

Seething I was.

qh

"let you go" ???? - **** that.

I had similar once. Client asked me to work 6am start one week, 2pm start the next week. Even laid out the hours they want covered. It meant that week 1 was 36 hours, week 2 was 40 hours. So hey no problem from me if thats what they wanted. (yes yes I know D&C for IR35)

Submitted timesheet on week 1. Got returned with huge red mark around 36 (like school homework). Then PM came to see me and discuss 'minimum hours'.

I was not happy to say the least.

[GreyWolf]

LOL. don't be daft, It's Nelson Mandela ya dick !!

Nah, it's Jimi Hendrix.

[vetran]

too subtle??

[doodab]

Nelson Mandela was in the Shawshank Redemption?

He was in prison for ages before he became president of south africa.

[Ticktock]

Nelson Mandela was in the Shawshank Redemption?

Didn't you see it yet?

I liked him in The Matrix too.

[suityou01]

I loved him in The Shawshank Redemption.

Nelson Mandela was in the Shawshank Redemption?

[Ticktock]

LOL. don't be daft, It's Nelson Mandela ya dick !!

I loved him in The Shawshank Redemption.

[TestMangler]

you sure that isn't Samuel L Jackson?

LOL. don't be daft, It's Nelson Mandela ya dick !!

[vetran]

Never seen Nelson Mandela pull faces like that before. That's awesome

you sure that isn't Samuel L Jackson?

[TestMangler]

I prefer asking what would Brian Boitano would do.

I bet he'd kick an ass or two !!

[Lockhouse]

Ask yourself WWMFD?

I prefer asking what would Brian Boitano do.

[wonderboy]

I left a gig last year at short notice when negotiations broke down and my contract was up (fully amicably - I had done a great job for them. They had offered an extension, but I wanted a(nother) rate bump). I had worked there for 18 months.

The way things worked out was that I was on a pre-planned day-off helping my sister move house on what turned out to be the final day of my contract, and so I had to go back into the office the following week to collect my possessions from the gents changing room.

I was in no particular rush to go back, until I received an email on the Friday morning (the final day of my contract) that my personal iPad and iPhone would be wiped clean that day unless I reported to the IT dept right away. This prompt efficiency was a surprise given this was the same department whose incompetence had had me tearing my hair out on more than one occasion during my contract. Being my day off, I was in another city that day. I asked them to delay to the Monday until I could get into the office.

I hired a car and turned up at the office on the Monday. Knowing my pass wouldn't work, I explained the situation to the two security guards on the front desk. Both of these guards, a male and a female knew me by name - I'd said good morning to them every day for 18 months. The male guard offered to give me a temporary pass, so that I could walk to the IT department and return my iOS devices, and then go to the changing rooms to collect my stuff. I thanked him and returned to my car because I had forgotten my phone. When I came back it was clear that there had been a discussion between the guards and that I was not to be allowed in and that I had to get my manager to come down and escort me.

Now bear in mind this organisation was not a bank or otherwise highly secure organisation, and they had the option of calling my manager and asking if it was OK to let me in to gather my stuff. They also had the option of only giving me access to the gents changing rooms avoiding the need to be followed whilst I made the several trips to and fro moving stuff to my car. Instead they insisted on getting someone to escort me for the duration.

This meant that I had the inconvenient situation of being unable to move about the building to gather my personal possessions without being followed around by first my (rather bewildered) manager, and then by the over-eager IT drone who wanted to wipe my iPad (he had to get me to show him how to remove an email account from the device (being the first time he had ever done it of course!)). I had done it on the Friday.

That was one time it was difficult to hold my tongue!