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So you think you've had a tough day....?
a girl called Ben Started conversation Sep 10, 2002
In theory I was going to go to Sweden today, to start a 6 week contract.
In reality my stuff is being moved out of my flat tomorrow and put into storage so that the flat can be refurbished. So the timing *was* really good. I bugger off to Sweden, and swan back in 6 weeks to a beautiful new flat. Or rather to the same flat, in beautiful new condition.
However, the client has not signed the paper-work yet. It came to 11.00 this morning, I was packed and more-or-less ready to go. I rang the guy who I will be working with at the client-site and said: 'if I don't know by 12.00 noon I am not coming today'. He thought I was being stroppy. 'I am not being stroppy. I cannot come because of the geography of the thing. I simply cannot get the ticket bought, and me to the airport unless I get the go-ahead by mid-day'.
Anyway, no call by noon (which is fine, but my sheets are drying ready to go into storage tomorrow, and my clothes are all packed for going to Sweden, but hey - I can sleep on a mattress, I have done it before).
So I say: 'Let me know by 4.30 and I will catch the 06.45am flight tomorrow morning, I'll be with you at lunch-time'. (A 4.00am start - yeouch - but I am a professional).
No dice.
He then asks if I will come out anyway, and I say 'sure - at your risk'. He has, apparently, arranged this mega-important meeting, at which I will be a key-player (nice to be wanted), which is taking place tomorrow. The client, who want this all to go ahead as wondrously swiftly as possible, cannot be arsed to sign the paperwork to pay for me to be there. However my main man is not prepared to take the risk on my out of pocket expences (a flight bought the same-day I fly, hotel costs for x-nights, parking, we are not talking peanuts) and therefore neither am I.
I would not mind but (a) I am paid daily, so every day I don't work is a day I don't get paid and (b) I have nowhere to sleep tomorrow night!
Hey ho!
Ben
So you think you've had a tough day....?
Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Posted Sep 15, 2002
I thought moving home was stressful.........
I hope things go well for you, honey
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