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    End of contract in a few months! Free to find pastures anew, new challenges. OK, being a mortgage whore always compromises ones self expresion, and quite frankly, with that crew, it took some compromise: Bunch of cliquey self protective ingrates. They didnt know what work meant, jesus, I have never, NEVER, produced so little code while working, let alone contracting. Discusssion, farting around, JUST GET ON WITH IT! Get the freaking product done for christs sake. No wonder I ppissed them off in the end, bunch of sluggards! No wonder they are loosing ground! Time to reassert my masculinity, god knows I held back enough. Utterly sick of it! Anyway, a nice holliday coming up. Time to relax, destress, and chill a bit, do some more work on the house... Anyone else out there in contractor/mortgage whore land who gets locked into a dull contract who has been happy to finish?

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      End of contract in a few months! Free to find pastures anew, new challenges. OK, being a mortgage whore always compromises ones self expresion, and quite frankly, with that crew, it took some compromise: Bunch of cliquey self protective ingrates. They didnt know what work meant, jesus, I have never, NEVER, produced so little code while working, let alone contracting. Discusssion, farting around, JUST GET ON WITH IT! Get the freaking product done for christs sake. No wonder I ppissed them off in the end, bunch of sluggards! No wonder they are loosing ground! Time to reassert my masculinity, god knows I held back enough. Utterly sick of it! Anyway, a nice holliday coming up. Time to relax, destress, and chill a bit, do some more work on the house... Anyone else out there in contractor/mortgage whore land who gets locked into a dull contract who has been happy to finish?

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      Erudite__Eric wrote:

      Time to reassert my masculinity,

      so you were asserting your femininity then?

      Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
      "No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)

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        Erudite__Eric wrote:

        Time to reassert my masculinity,

        so you were asserting your femininity then?

        Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
        "No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)

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        Slacker007 wrote:

        so you were asserting your femininity then?

        The times I had to bite my tongue, in the face of such lassitude. THey would get into work at 9:30. take an hour tes break at 10:30. An hour for lunch, then a tea break for an hour at 15:00. And go home at 17:30. Holy crap, I have never seen such lack of effort! It is shocking. Truly. I really had to hold back on what I felt, believe me. :)

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          Slacker007 wrote:

          so you were asserting your femininity then?

          The times I had to bite my tongue, in the face of such lassitude. THey would get into work at 9:30. take an hour tes break at 10:30. An hour for lunch, then a tea break for an hour at 15:00. And go home at 17:30. Holy crap, I have never seen such lack of effort! It is shocking. Truly. I really had to hold back on what I felt, believe me. :)

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          I once contracted for a county tax assessment office that ran the same way. Except 10:30 was the half hour popcorn break. One lady had me rig the tab order on a screen to jump a field that she *hardly* ever used cause she was so busy she didn't have the time to hit tab once more. This same lady also spent about an hour a day walking around the office talking to people an occasionally handing out cookies. I'd have pointed out her stupidity, but they were good cookies. :rolleyes:

          Kill some time, play my game Hop Cheops[^]

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            Slacker007 wrote:

            so you were asserting your femininity then?

            The times I had to bite my tongue, in the face of such lassitude. THey would get into work at 9:30. take an hour tes break at 10:30. An hour for lunch, then a tea break for an hour at 15:00. And go home at 17:30. Holy crap, I have never seen such lack of effort! It is shocking. Truly. I really had to hold back on what I felt, believe me. :)

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            Erudite__Eric wrote:

            Slacker007 wrote:

            so you were asserting your femininity then?

            Erudite__Eric wrote:

            I really had to hold back on what I felt, believe me.

            I guess not!

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              I once contracted for a county tax assessment office that ran the same way. Except 10:30 was the half hour popcorn break. One lady had me rig the tab order on a screen to jump a field that she *hardly* ever used cause she was so busy she didn't have the time to hit tab once more. This same lady also spent about an hour a day walking around the office talking to people an occasionally handing out cookies. I'd have pointed out her stupidity, but they were good cookies. :rolleyes:

              Kill some time, play my game Hop Cheops[^]

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              Mycroft Holmes
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              thrakazog wrote:

              I'd have pointed out her stupidity, but they were good cookies

              Which makes you a cookie whore I presume!

              Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                thrakazog wrote:

                I'd have pointed out her stupidity, but they were good cookies

                Which makes you a cookie whore I presume!

                Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                Mycroft Holmes wrote:

                Which makes you a cookie whore I presume!

                And the problem is where?


                Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

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                  Mycroft Holmes wrote:

                  Which makes you a cookie whore I presume!

                  And the problem is where?


                  Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

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                  Mycroft Holmes
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                  There are never enough cookies to go around if there is more than one of us.

                  Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                    Slacker007 wrote:

                    so you were asserting your femininity then?

                    The times I had to bite my tongue, in the face of such lassitude. THey would get into work at 9:30. take an hour tes break at 10:30. An hour for lunch, then a tea break for an hour at 15:00. And go home at 17:30. Holy crap, I have never seen such lack of effort! It is shocking. Truly. I really had to hold back on what I felt, believe me. :)

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                    Keith Barrow
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                    Erudite__Eric wrote:

                    lassitude

                    Behaving or adopting the attitude of a lass? :)

                    Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
                    -Or-
                    A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]

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                    • M Mycroft Holmes

                      There are never enough cookies to go around if there is more than one of us.

                      Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                      Mycroft Holmes wrote:

                      There are never enough cookies to go around if there is more than one of us.

                      ftfy I have chocolate-chip, nice and shortbread bikits in my desk drawer [and some Ritz crackers for cheese moments] but there are NEVER enough. :sigh:


                      Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

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