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    #1

    I have the urge...

    to become a contractor once more...

    I'm bored, pissed off & have just spent two tedious hours being edified in the joys of HERA... which is a glorified method of downgrading jobs in edjukashun establishments.

    Thank feck the Purple Haired Ones are on tonight...
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    #2
    If it's any comfort I am also bored & pissed off, even though I am in a contract.
    The only bright side is the amount of money I am being paid to do so


    HTH
    How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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      #3
      Originally posted by zeitghost
      to become a contractor once more...

      I'm bored, pissed off & have just spent two tedious hours being edified in the joys of HERA... which is a glorified method of downgrading jobs in edjukashun establishments.

      Thank feck the Purple Haired Ones are on tonight...
      Do you live anywhere near Cambridge?

      We've got tuliploads of work!

      No Agents please...

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        #4
        Present contract is moderately interesting but just had enough of the whole darn travelling/crap flats in week thing. Roll on retirement.
        bloggoth

        If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
        John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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          #5
          Originally posted by zeitghost
          to become a contractor once more...
          Who doesn't??? Once a contractor always a contractor.
          I've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark, Rome is the light.

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            #6
            Hey I just lasted an entire DAY in a permanent job. Quit by 5:30. Oh well not my commission lol.

            Sooo back on the contract market after two weeks of negotiation after finding out my new employers are lying gits.
            Serving religion with the contempt it deserves...

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              #7
              Originally posted by zeitghost
              Had an interview in Cambridge with Philips that will stay with me for a long long time...
              Philips PMR? Guy interviewing: was he wearing a brown nylon suit?
              Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
              threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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                #8
                Originally posted by threaded
                Philips PMR? Guy interviewing: was he wearing a brown nylon suit?
                He sounds like the guy who handles the static sensitive devices at our place!

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Churchill
                  He sounds like the guy who handles the static sensitive devices at our place!
                  Does he drive a Volvo?
                  Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
                  threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by zeitghost
                    Can't remember what his suit was like; can remember that I didn't even get offered a glass of water.

                    Got asked a load of questions about 4 bit assembler and a C test I couldn't make head nor tail of...

                    And the twat was testing me on my CV.

                    10 fecking hours driving for nowt...
                    Definitely sounds like the chap I know.
                    Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
                    threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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