Contracting: First Blood: Part 2
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So new contract new company.
Large energy company in the UK decided that I absolutely needed to start at the start of June otherwise the Team would be falling behind without my expert help.
I turn up and I don't have a computer, email or corp IM access and no local admin rights so I can't install anything like Visual Studio.
It takes 4 days to get email, and local admin might happen in the future. Could have sat at home for another week playing DOOM ... FFS!
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@lucas1 said in Contracting: First Blood: Part 2:
So new contract new company.
Large energy company in the UK decided that I absolutely needed to start at the start of June otherwise the Team would be falling behind without my expert help.
I turn up and I don't have a computer, email or corp IM access and no local admin rights so I can't install anything like Visual Studio.
It takes 4 days to get email, and local admin might happen in the future. Could have sat at home for another week playing DOOM ... FFS!
So...sit at work and play doom?
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@Dreikin Can you install that without local admin rights?
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@Kuro he has physical access to the machine. ethics is the only thing standing between him and local admin rights right now.
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@accalia
I want to quote the OP:It takes 4 days to get email, and local admin might happen in the future. Could have sat at home for another week playing DOOM ... FFS!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6J352J_RG8
This could have been me.
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@Kuro said in Contracting: First Blood: Part 2:
@Dreikin Can you install that without local admin rights?
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No fuck that. Ain't playing a game in my browser ... and I am a web dev.
PC MASTER RACE:
Says the new convert to the Church of Jobs.
https://fortunedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/screen-shot-2010-01-30-at-10-22-29-am.png
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@lucas1 said in Contracting: First Blood: Part 2:
Ain't playing a game in my browser ... and I am a web dev.
It worked somewhat well, despite all the blocks on the corp internet. But it crashed the tab after about five minutes somehow, and I never went back.
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@Kuro said in Contracting: First Blood: Part 2:
@Dreikin Can you install that without local admin rights?
You don't need to INSTALL DOOM. You bring it on a floppy disk.
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Well it seems I am going to have to jack this one in.
They expect me to do middleware work when I am a not a backend dev. This isn't what I do, I am probably going to have to give a months notice FFS.
They employed me as a sitecore dev and I am not doing Sitecore dev.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Contracting: First Blood: Part 2:
You don't need to INSTALL DOOM. You bring it on a floppy disk.
That would indeed be one of the things where I would tell my pupils:
You managed to do this thing against the rules. You deserve to do this thing against the rules.
Though I dare say that they'd probably need to do some weight lifting before they can carry all those discs. Or were you not talking about the 2016 version of Doom?
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@lucas1 said in Contracting: First Blood: Part 2:
Well it seems I am going to have to jack this one in.
They expect me to do middleware work when I am a backend dev. This isn't what I do, I am probably going to have to give a months notice FFS.
They employed me as a sitecore dev and I am not doing Sitecore dev.
If they're paying you sitecore money to work on anything else that's about as good of an outcome you can hope for.
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@Rhywden said in Contracting: First Blood: Part 2:
Though I dare say that they'd probably need to do some weight lifting before they can carry all those discs. Or were you not talking about the 2016 version of Doom?
Assuming 1.44MB floppies (which I just weighed at 18.5 grammes each), and the size of my steam folder for DOOM at 54868MB, I land at just over 688kg. I would not recommend transporting that much weight in one haul without special equipment. Or in the back of a standard car.
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@PleegWat said in Contracting: First Blood: Part 2:
Or in the back of a standard car.
You might be able to. Provided there are no passengers. It's probably a good idea to look into making some install CDs.
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@fwd it not sitecore money tbh.
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@dkf I neglected to check the volume of those floppies yesterday. You might need a big car with the rear seats down anyway.
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@lucas1 said in Contracting: First Blood: Part 2:
otherwise the Team would be falling behind without my expert help.
I turn up and I don't have a computer, email or corp IM access and no local admin rights so I can't install anything like Visual Studio.
These happened to me at two different jobs. For the first one, it was the same kind of story. Huge upgrade project, rest of the team has already started (but most of them lack the required experience), would hit the ground running, can redesign and refactor, seemed like the kind of thing that would really give me experience in the platform & language which I wanted to pursue. Then I started there, and then there were loads of hold ups and bulls hit around purchase orders and the like. So they gave me busywork in !(the platform they hired me for) which was something crapped out as a POC, and now sold as a working project to another client. I rewrote the abomination, and kept the client happy. Almost three months in, and now the documenting & planning process started (at risk), but "The project's in the bag"
This lead me to being very open to a phone call from another company who also needed my particular set of skills, and being an in-house gig for a large corporate, I thought this would be ideal. Went to the interviews, got a good offer, accepted, jumped through about a week's worth of HR hoops, and finally started work. On day one, HR directed me to my boss, and she was surprised at my arrival. Turns out, they were never informed that I had accepted the offer and was starting on this particular day. So a couple of days without a laptop, and then a couple of days to get everything installed and sorted.
The WTFs didn't stop there, but these were two events last year which seriously made me question some of my choices in hindsight...
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@lucas1 said in Contracting: First Blood: Part 2:
They expect me to do middleware work when I am a not a backend dev
Learn it then. More varied experience is never a bad thing
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@Jaloopa It is besides the point.
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@AgentDenton I feel like I was basically told a pack of lies during the phone interview. I've basically told them I won't be confident meeting any estimates until I been in there for a few weeks at least. If they don't like that, it is too bad tbh.
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Update if anyone gave a shit:
So I kicked up a bit of a fuss. They really want long term contractors and are trying to keep me sweet.
It paying money so I am just going to keep my mouth shut and see how it goes. Once the kitty is where I want it to be I am going.
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@lucas1 said in Contracting: First Blood: Part 2:
Once the kitty is where I want it to be I am going.