i also did a bit of work on thrusday as well. nothing major but just building a few ESXi servers, which is better than sitting at my desk doing nothing. if i have something to do i am happy. i dont like being overly stressed and swamped but i also dont like being idle. all in all, everything was good the last couple of days of last week at work.
the bad.....well nothing that i can see yet.
....and the ugly....well i got talking to one of the project managers who i thought was a little bit too chatty and loud for my liking, but seems fine enough. anyways, he was telling me that he was a contractor as well but that he was contracting through one of the senior project managers who has his own firm and who also works at the hedge fund, and that the senior project manager was skimming his own slice of commission. basically the PM is paid a day rate, and the senior PM takes a slices (not normal) and then the recruitment company takes a slice (which is normal), and then you get whats left over. this PM then spoke to the official recruitment agency and found out how much they billed the senior PM, and from that he worked out how much the senior PM was skimming. turns out its nearly 30 grand a year that the senior PM is skimming.
it doesnt sound illegal as such, but it does sound like a very big conflict of interest, in that this senior PM has a direct personal financial interest in the people working under him. it could affect his decision if it came to hiring and firing people or giving raises. i heard that a similar scheme was run by a previous senior project manager at the firm and both he and 4 others that were in on it, were fired not too long ago. this could get ugly. still its nothing to do with me and i dont know the precise details, and i will be a good contractor and keep my mouth shut and get on with my work. the PM that is being stiffed is currently working his way out of the situation and transferring his contract to work directly for the firm.
glastonbury festival this weekend. i have my views on it that i have written about before, about it being for mainstream acts and that its an event just for middle aged middle class wankers who aren't into music desperately trying to be cool. basically its a giant cluster fuck of big bands and the media. christ, you should listen to the BBC presenters gushing endlessly about every single band and performance, even the performances that are clearly shit or at best just average. clearly they have never been to a proper show, like lights in the sky tour by nine inch nails. they would die of a fucking heart attack if they ever saw that.
anyways, i have been watching it from the comfort of my sofa as opposed to crawling around in the mud like some farm yard animal or a middle class middle aged wanker. the kills were very good as were the gaslight anthem. u2 were ok, but only because they started their set with 5 songs for the achtung baby album (their last good album), and not any of their recent shite. i switched off when they started playing songs about sexy boots and vertigo. coldplay were on last night, and whilst they play very well together and are clearly well rehearsed but they just seemed a little clinical and they had that false sincerity that tony blair used to do as well. sorry but its true. warpaint were very good as well, i really enjoyed their set.
today i have mostly been listening to the kills - no wow. this is the first song the kills played at glastonbury. that performance is not on youtube yet, but this is them performing it live in amsterdam a couple of years ago. allison mosshart is too cool for school.
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