Best and worst gigs?

[psychocandy]

Ignoring actual work and rate etc, based solely on things like location, facilities, people, managers, etc what is your best and worst gig?

Best for me was one where manager left the office at 3pm every day and encouraged everyone else to leave no later than 4pm. Also, for some reason, he thought I was great as did all the permies!

Worst one probably one where manager didnt even know I was coming. Had a strop that someone had dumped me on him. Then location was supposed to move after max one month and he didnt know anything about this either (agent lied). So I walked after a few months.

[psychocandy]

Sounds like for some of you it will be Barclays and associated parking hassle? :-)

[MicrosoftBob]

Best gig was for a media agency, as well as the usual marketing and web guff they handled the inhouse magazine for Southampton football club

Nothing interestng there except they had to choose the topless photos for the magazine, unsuprisingly they never lacked for help in choosing the winners

Tough work if you can get it


The worst was when I walked out after my first months invoice hadn't been paid, client wasn't interested in me going direct and my suspicions of the client having cash flow problems were later realised when they went bust shortly after the directors doing a runner with what was left our the agencies money

Still lost a months billing despite getting paranoid

[SimonMac]

Best and worse gig was the same gig.

Last gig really close to home, work was good and I made quite a lot of new friends there (being a local gig I didn't mind getting involved in the social side)

The fact it has ruined me for any other gig makes it the worse, now hate working away

[Unix]

Rating your gigs is a pointer to IR35, use the search button you cretin!

NLUK

[SimonMac]

Best gig was for a media agency, as well as the usual marketing and web guff they handled the inhouse magazine for Southampton football club

Nothing interestng there except they had to choose the topless photos for the magazine, unsuprisingly they never lacked for help in choosing the winners

Tough work if you can get it

Reminds me of when we used to work with SurfControl for a web proxy, they had a guy who's job title was "Nipple Guy" and we had to see if their scanning software picked up on all the nipples in photos

[psychocandy]

Best and worse gig was the same gig.

Last gig really close to home, work was good and I made quite a lot of new friends there (being a local gig I didn't mind getting involved in the social side)

The fact it has ruined me for any other gig makes it the worse, now hate working away

Had gig like this a few years ago.

Went back as contractor to place I'd worked at 15 years before as a permie. In the interim, I'd also worked with some people who'd also gone back. So a lot of them were mates of mine.....

Sorry to leave in the end.