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First Northerner Contractor Experience

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    First Northerner Contractor Experience

    First day at a new contract today. Agent c0cked up and told me 10am start when everyone else got there at 9. Bit embarrassing so tried not to bring too much attention to myself for the rest of the day. The others seem a bit stand-offish, especially one northern contractor who kept glaring at me, tutting and rolling his eyes. Not sure what I've done to deserve this as I don't know the guy from Adam. Perhaps it's because I'm Indian?

    "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

    #2
    Yeah, but you know what Northerners are like, eh?

    All whippets and chip butties. I find it hard to tell one from the other. And those accents

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      #3
      Originally posted by Ruprect View Post
      First day at a new contract today. Agent c0cked up and told me 10am start when everyone else got there at 9. Bit embarrassing so tried not to bring too much attention to myself for the rest of the day. The others seem a bit stand-offish, especially one northern contractor who kept glaring at me, tutting and rolling his eyes. Not sure what I've done to deserve this as I don't know the guy from Adam. Perhaps it's because I'm Indian?

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        #4
        Originally posted by Ruprect View Post
        First day at a new contract today. Agent c0cked up and told me 10am start when everyone else got there at 9. Bit embarrassing so tried not to bring too much attention to myself for the rest of the day. The others seem a bit stand-offish, especially one northern contractor who kept glaring at me, tutting and rolling his eyes. Not sure what I've done to deserve this as I don't know the guy from Adam. Perhaps it's because I'm Indian?

        I had one contract like that, one guy even refused to shake my hand when I tried to introduce myself in a meeting lol. Bunch of jokers, just keep your head down and keep invoicing.

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          #5
          When you say northern do you mean north of Watford Gap or up in the wilds of the Midlands?

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            #6
            Originally posted by Platypus View Post
            Yeah, but you know what Northerners are like, eh?

            All whippets and chip butties. I find it hard to tell one from the other. And those accents
            You can't tell the difference between a whippet and a chip butty?
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              #7
              Originally posted by d000hg View Post
              You can't tell the difference between a whippet and a chip butty?
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                #8
                Originally posted by d000hg View Post
                You can't tell the difference between a whippet and a chip butty?
                "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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                  #9
                  I've never worked with a Northern contractor. Have met one or two socially though. Apparently they like to bare their butt cheeks in public. Has anyone else come across northern contractors who do this?

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by mudskipper View Post
                    I've never worked with a Northern contractor. Have met one or two socially though. Apparently they like to bare their butt cheeks in public. Has anyone else come across northern contractors who do this?
                    Maybe its just you that encourages them?
                    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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