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    Gotta love Korean companies

    The clientco group I'm contracting in has just been bought by a large Korean company (and I took half a day off on the last day at old clientco and the first at new cliento, with "no work available" prominently on each timesheet, to prove no mutuality of obligation!)

    Anyway, the transfer of hardware and software for hundreds of people went fairly smoothly, largely due to the heroic efforts of one permie IS guy. He has been working like a one-armed paperhanger all the hours God sends, fielding requests from dozens of people, and staying late until past midnight, and apparently the other guys in his team are fairly useless.

    Then yesterday, now things have settled down a bit, he took the liberty of arriving an hour late, at 9am instead of 8am I think, and within minutes a Korean HR manager phoned him and announced "You late today - We dock one hour's pay!".

    To which he replied "You can dock one employee from your head count", and walked out. Who can blame him?
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    #2
    Sounds like he should become a contractor.
    Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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      #3
      Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
      The clientco group I'm contracting in has just been bought by a large Korean company (and I took half a day off on the last day at old clientco and the first at new cliento, with "no work available" prominently on each timesheet, to prove no mutuality of obligation!)

      Anyway, the transfer of hardware and software for hundreds of people went fairly smoothly, largely due to the heroic efforts of one permie IS guy. He has been working like a one-armed paperhanger all the hours God sends, fielding requests from dozens of people, and staying late until past midnight, and apparently the other guys in his team are fairly useless.

      Then yesterday, now things have settled down a bit, he took the liberty of arriving an hour late, at 9am instead of 8am I think, and within minutes a Korean HR manager phoned him and announced "You late today - We dock one hour's pay!".

      To which he replied "You can dock one employee from your head count", and walked out. Who can blame him?
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        #4
        Can you imagine what expertise Cambodian companies would have had if Pol Pot was still in charge? What? He know how to fix network? He too educated! Shoot now!
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          #5
          Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
          Can you imagine what expertise Cambodian companies would have had if Pol Pot was still in charge? What? He know how to fix network? He too educated! Shoot now!
          Maybe that's what the Iron Lady had a little soft spot for the Khmer Rouge.
          The material prosperity of a nation is not an abiding possession; the deeds of its people are.

          George Frederic Watts

          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postman's_Park

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            #6
            Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
            Can you imagine what expertise Cambodian companies would have had if Pol Pot was still in charge? What? He know how to fix network? He too educated! Shoot now!
            How else do managers become managers while people with real expertise stay as proles or go contracting.
            Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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              #7
              Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
              Sounds like he should become a contractor.
              It doesn't sound like he has the right worth ethic to be a contractor.
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                #8
                Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
                Then yesterday, now things have settled down a bit, he took the liberty of arriving an hour late, at 9am instead of 8am I think, and within minutes a Korean HR manager phoned him and announced "You late today - We dock one hour's pay!".
                Ah, a Declaration of War.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by d000hg View Post
                  It doesn't sound like he has the right worth ethic to be a contractor.


                  Most contractors think Ethics is a county somewhere to the south of Thutthex.
                  Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post


                    Most contractors think Ethics is a county somewhere to the south of Thutthex.
                    South of Thutthex? Really?

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