Reply to: What's the best / worst gig you've had?

[Pogle]

I seem to find stuff to enjoy in most of my contracts, current one is lovely.
My most stressful work was when I worked for a consultancy and they just chucked me in at the deep end saying I was a cognos expert an sent me off to build a datawarehouse when I had never even seen the software. No training, nothing and the client was expecting some sort of guru!
I parted company with the agency sortly after that and started contracting.

[d000hg]

I'd rather they crossed every 't' and dotted every 'i', but that might just mean I am a coward.

That's exactly the kind of attention to detail you'd hope anyone in the nuclear industry would take for granted. Or rather, not take for granted but triple check.

[MyUserName]

A gig in London a few years ago where I found that Old Greg was the men's toilet.

FTFY

[speling bee]

There we go. You had your opportunity. Thanks for the notification.

Of course, strictly speaking, it's a grammatical error, not a spelling error.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Imagine having that slag as your line manager.

[speling bee]

A gig in London a few years ago where I found that Old Greg was the mens toilet attendant.

Imagine having that slag as your line manager.

[MarillionFan]

What about your worst gig?

A gig in London a few years ago where I found that Old Greg was the mens toilet attendant.

[speling bee]

15 years ago in Norfolk at a car company. Two punch-ups and a massive argument all with different people in the IT department. It was a stress environment.

What about your worst gig?

[MarillionFan]

15 years ago in Norfolk at a car company. Two punch-ups and a massive argument all with different people in the IT department. It was a stress environment.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Details ?

Management acted like playground bullies towards developers. They know they couldn't treat contractors like that so they just shoved me to the side without responding to emails and simply putting off meetings (seems they wanted a scapegoat for their collective failures). At the start of the 4 months there were 6 developers, by the end 3 had already left.

Management would not communicate with developers except by email or phone, even though they were in the same room. Team meetings were all held on the phone and never face to face.

Need I say more?

Oh and the canteen was pure and utter filth.

[GlenW]

I'd rather they dotted every 't' and crossed every 'i', but that might just mean I am bored.

They do that in the Japanese nuclear industry I believe.

[speling bee]

I'd rather they crossed every 't' and dotted every 'i', but that might just mean I am a coward.

I'd rather they dotted every 't' and crossed every 'i', but that might just mean I am bored.

[GlenW]

The nuclear industry seems to me like one place you might not want forward-thinking enthusiastic people, but very very dull conservative-follow-the-procedure-no-matter-what-cross-every-i-dot-every-t-types

I'd rather they crossed every 't' and dotted every 'i', but that might just mean I am a coward.

[speling bee]

There is an element of that but this project is installing new engineering systems and part of the challenge is to do so while complying with the dull (yet vital) procedures.

Can't you just wing it?

[MojoDog]

The nuclear industry seems to me like one place you might not want forward-thinking enthusiastic people, but very very dull conservative-follow-the-procedure-no-matter-what-cross-every-i-dot-every-t-types

There is an element of that but this project is installing new engineering systems and part of the challenge is to do so while complying with the dull (yet vital) procedures.