COVID19 - Contractors not permitted to Work At Home

[HoofHearted]

after 2006 it just gathered dust.

Like my vacuum cleaner

(Thanks to Tim Vine for that one)

[Mordac]

Did you have to fell the tree and make your own paper too?

Paper!? Ooh, 'ark at you, Miss fancy knickers...

[DoctorStrangelove]

I threw mine out in 2008. Used it quite a bit in the late 90s, but after 2006 it just gathered dust.

To no one's surprise I've got two: the original one which used magick thermal paper and still goes, and an olivetti one that used refillable ink cartridges which is long dead, as are the cartridges by now.

The thermal one was incredibly useful when some oik put the wrong number into a fax machine at a local hospital & the only way I could shut the fecker up was to receive the fax & fax a "feck off you've got the wrong number" back.

Unfortunately it wasn't an inneresting fax that came through.

[LondonManc]

Haven't had to have a signed paper timesheets since 2011.

[psychocandy]

Yeh I think WFH is imminent at my client too.

Got a feeling client team leader will say "not for contractors". Hes got a MASSIVE chips on his shoulder already that contractors shouldn't get any "perks" that permies get so it won't be a surprise. I wont mind - no permies here and there's a nice sofa or two downstairs (And a TV) that I might kip on.

Of course, not expecting special treatment as a contractor or a right to work from home.

It public sector, as they usually do, its all "subject to your line manager" and no-one above ever gets involved. Everyone wants an easy life and won't get involved.

[northernladuk]

Yeh I think WFH is imminent at my client too.

Got a feeling client team leader will say "not for contractors". Hes got a MASSIVE chips on his shoulder already that contractors shouldn't get any "perks" that permies get so it won't be a surprise.

Is thst because has got some right tosser contractors?

I wont mind

I bet you will and we will hear all about it.

Of course, not expecting special treatment as a contractor or a right to work from home.

But that won't stop you moaning and calling your client a bell end.