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    Fourth week on bench

    Getting nervous now.
    Two clients interviewed. Both said they'd confirm by COP today.

    #2
    Only 4 weeks? That's what the old warchest is for.

    Come back at 4 months, then you can tell us you're nervous.

    Otherwise we'll just set NLUK onto you...
    "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
    - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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      #3
      Originally posted by yetanotherbob View Post
      Getting nervous now.
      Two clients interviewed. Both said they'd confirm by COP today.
      Cop today? You posted at 8pm.

      next!
      "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "


      Thomas Jefferson

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        #4
        In my experience, 4 months is around when I stop being nervous and start being dangerously tranquil and satisfied with the bench situation.

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          #5
          Originally posted by cojak View Post
          Only 4 weeks? That's what the old warchest is for.

          Come back at 4 months, then you can tell us you're nervous.

          Otherwise we'll just set NLUK onto you...
          WCJS
          "Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch." - Orson Welles

          Norrahe's blog

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            #6
            Originally posted by Ruprect View Post
            Cop today? You posted at 8pm.

            next!
            Perhaps he's in a different timezone.
            What happens in General, stays in General.
            You know what they say about assumptions!

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              #7
              Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
              Perhaps he's in a different timezone.
              I am very well in GMT+1 and just happened to post this at 8 pm.
              Expected to hear from the clients by 5:30

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                #8
                4 weeks, oh well, that's your contracting career over with, pop down the job centre, I'm sure they'll find you something suitable.

                4 weeks is nothing, as other have said wait til 4 months.
                Never has a man been heard to say on his death bed that he wishes he'd spent more time in the office.

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                  #9
                  5 weeks here, longest ever was nearly 4 months. 4 months should be survivable with a warchest and sensible outgoings. Just spend less and enjoy having the time for simple pleasures that you're normally too busy to do, like walking, cycling, reading some good books or enjoying the garden.

                  Still, interview on Turdsday.
                  And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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                    #10
                    What's the bench? Is it in the park where the vagabonds hang out?
                    But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition. Pliny the younger

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