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The worst contractor you have ever worked with or heard about
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Oh so it was related to a medical condition?
I have a little sympathy but it is still up to him to ensure he is suitable to be in same room as other people.Comment
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Originally posted by eek View PostAre you sure it wasn't MF?When freedom comes along, don't PISH in the water supply.....Comment
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Originally posted by MyUserName View PostOh so it was related to a medical condition?
I have a little sympathy but it is still up to him to ensure he is suitable to be in same room as other people.When freedom comes along, don't PISH in the water supply.....Comment
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Originally posted by TestMangler View PostNo idea if it was an actual medical problem or not. Maybe the doctor said "Try washing, you smelly c**t"Comment
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Originally posted by eek View PostI know people who developed the equivalent to yahoo before yahoo appeared on the seen. Things either get traction or die so I did this before x doesn't mean much.
Even then google won because they were better than the other search engines at the time (in the same way facebook overtook myspace). Even in 1997 Excite / Altavista were worth billions......
As for annoying contractors - people who lie. I was working as a Lead Consultant on an implementation project and had a contract desktop engineer assigned to me - we had to sack him in the end because he'd simply disappear for hours at a time while doing 10 minute jobs.Comment
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You do become desensitised to smells though, turn up at a farm and sometimes it's bad enough you want to hurl but after a few days you'd not notice it.
Presumably if you're always smelly, you don't notice.Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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On my last contract, for the first few months I wasn't able to sit with the team I worked with and hat to sit with the Bobs. In the morning some of them honked a bit - by late afternoon they stunk in a very big way. I went out and bought a load of car air fresheners and scattered them around my desk. i did complain to a few people about the stench but nobody was interested. There was one guy I seemed to wear the same shirt all week! I presume the other clothes he wore got the same 5 days in a row treatment.Rule Number 1 - Assuming that you have a valid contract in place always try to get your poo onto your timesheet, provided that the timesheet is valid for your current contract and covers the period of time that you are billing for.
I preferred version 1!Comment
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Originally posted by BoredBloke View PostOn my last contract, for the first few months I wasn't able to sit with the team I worked with and hat to sit with the Bobs. In the morning some of them honked a bit - by late afternoon they stunk in a very big way. I went out and bought a load of car air fresheners and scattered them around my desk. i did complain to a few people about the stench but nobody was interested. There was one guy I seemed to wear the same shirt all week! I presume the other clothes he wore got the same 5 days in a row treatment.Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.Comment
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For me it has to be the Test Manager at Sky I worked with, he is completely incompetent, has no people skills and I can imagine this will be his first and only contract. He was brought in by the guy overseeing the project and they were buddies at BT apparently, suffice to say the only thing he knows is manual testing and how to burn through a budget in next to no time.
Before I left I raised all these points in a professional way and urged others to the same, which they did.
Suffice to say he's still there and nothing has changedIn Scooter we trustComment
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