Reply to: Admin

[mb31]

If you want to have boundaries dictated to you, then contracting isn’t for you. That would come under “direction and control”
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I like your sense of humour WTFH, you could say I'm currently exercising my right of substitution and being up front about it. I don't really have much choice though...

As you know from my PM last week I have fallen into contracting for reasons indirectly related to health issues. That doesn't mean I'm not proficient in my field and I can't add something new to the forum. I probably have a different perspective to most people.

While I maybe wasn't at my best last week, I'm no troll but never lie down and take it if I'm being treated unfairly.

Anyway, I don't wish to ramble and I appreciate your directness.

[WTFH]

I think us newbies need clear boundaries and this is an FAQ board.

This isn’t a school or university or prison.
It’s an Internet forum for professionals who are/were/would like to be contractors.
Internet forums are for discussing ideas, learning and helping others.

If you want to have boundaries dictated to you, then contracting isn’t for you. That would come under “direction and control”

Also, in my experience, when someone asks for a list of boundaries it is so that person can constantly push or try to get round them - I.e trolling.

But if you are interested in discussing - not just monologues - and you are prepared to be challenged, to listen and to respond, then you might find this place helpful.

[NotAllThere]

Just out of interest, is there anything a moderator won't do?

Plenty. For example, we won't give a definitive list of what's acceptable and what isn't.

[mb31]

Nope. Just doing what moderators do.

Just out of interest, is there anything a moderator won't do?

I think us newbies need clear boundaries and this is an FAQ board.

[NotAllThere]

I always thought that was laugh at everyone. Change a few posts to humiliate people. Roll dice to decide punishment for minor offences. And ban anyone who actually causes you to do any work.

Thanks for putting me straight.

Be fair. I've only banned you when you were asking for it. Quite literally!

[BrilloPad]

Pleasure...

You can take satisfaction that professional forums are far far better since your became mod. You have probably saved a few suicides.

As for the other 2.......

[cojak]

I always thought that was laugh at everyone. Change a few posts to humiliate people. Roll dice to decide punishment for minor offences. And ban anyone who actually causes you to do any work.

Thanks for putting me straight.

Pleasure...

[BrilloPad]

Nope. Just doing what moderators do.

I always thought that was laugh at everyone. Change a few posts to humiliate people. Roll dice to decide punishment for minor offences. And ban anyone who actually causes you to do any work.

Thanks for putting me straight.

[NotAllThere]

An olive branch perhaps?

Thanks NotAllThere for an act of kindness and you've done me a favour (that's genuine not sarcastic).

Nope. Just doing what moderators do.

[mb31]

An olive branch perhaps?

Thanks NotAllThere for an act of kindness and you've done me a favour (that's genuine not sarcastic).

I didn't even get berated for not using the search function before I asked the question (that is a bit sarcastic).

Lurkers, there's never been a better time to become a newbie. After the mass IR35 exodus we can rise up and fill the vacuum.

"Generations come and generations go but the earth remains forever." Ecclesiastes 1:4

(that's meant to be prophetic not delusional)

[NotAllThere]

Inneresting.

In the interests of continuity, this was in response to a few posts moved here: https://www.contractoruk.com/forums/...-software.html

I think Welcome/FAQ might be the safest bet for me on this forum. I was hoping nobody would respond to my last post by the way and especially those who claim not to have read it.

I know someone on another forum who does nothing but welcome newbies. He lives a simple but happy life.

Lovely.

[northernladuk]

Inneresting.

[NotAllThere]

Just as long as he out in time to see Ziggy pushed into that canal.....

Shhhh. We don't what Trigger to know our plan.

[BrilloPad]

I used a welder. He can always chew through his partially charred wrist.

Just as long as he out in time to see Ziggy pushed into that canal.....

[NotAllThere]

I am a bit surprised as I thought admin's number one priority was answering emails. In fact, he has no other life.

Don't tell me he went to the Christmas mod Gladiator(come as you are) party and has still not escaped from under that sofa bed. Surely its easy enough to erscape using the radiatr key we all carry with us at all times?

I used a welder. He can always chew through his partially charred wrist.