When my previous contract was due to end a couple of weeks ago, I was resigned to spending at least a couple of months on the bench over Christmas.
But at the last minute I bagged a perl contract, two weeks at first but now extended to six months. It turned out that the client's two long-serving perl programmers, and the mainstays of the company's IT dept, had been sacked on the spot the previous week for being caught with highly dodgy porn on their company laptops, leaving nobody who knew the perl code or even perl itself.
Apparently the porn was "about as bad as it gets", although no one seemed to know what, or if they did weren't admitting it. So I'm only guessing it was kiddie stuff, but what else would prompt instant sackings these days unless it's a matter of principle with any porn being found?
But at the last minute I bagged a perl contract, two weeks at first but now extended to six months. It turned out that the client's two long-serving perl programmers, and the mainstays of the company's IT dept, had been sacked on the spot the previous week for being caught with highly dodgy porn on their company laptops, leaving nobody who knew the perl code or even perl itself.
Apparently the porn was "about as bad as it gets", although no one seemed to know what, or if they did weren't admitting it. So I'm only guessing it was kiddie stuff, but what else would prompt instant sackings these days unless it's a matter of principle with any porn being found?
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