drifting

finished my last contract at the end of March. i was doing a server patching project for the European offices and there was someone else doing the same in north america.
for the year i was there, i managed to get all the European servers done, and automated it all as well. after all, it would be stupid to not automate and schedule this type of task.

i found that the 2 people in the north america office were reluctant to put in any sort of schedule or automation. it was obvious that they were deliberately doing it slowly and manually just to extend their contracts. anyways, i finished up the european servers and once that was done, they did not need me any longer and my contract finished. that is fine. i am not going to deliberately work slowly just to string out the project in the hope of doing mind numbingly boring work for another year. the 2 people in the north america stayed and got contract renewals. Europe patching was a slick process able to managed by their regular support guys, needing maybe 15 hours a week of working time. North America still needs 2 full time people to do the same job (80hours/week).

this week i started a new contract. its a windows server migration. there is a guy there who has been on the project for a year and over the last week he has been showing me what to do. its blindingly obvious that he is deliberately going slowly. i was watching him work this week and he seemed to be doing everything so slowly. shit!, not this again.

if i am honest, i dont like working. i dont like going to work on the train every morning. i dont like moving jobs once or twice a year. i dont actually work very hard. but fuck me, these people are taking it to a new level. it must be a real effort to work that slowly. its easier to just do the work, than to string it out needlessly for that long. i can see why they have brought in another contractor in.

given the rate at which this guy is working, the sun will have expanded and consumed the earth by the time they get the servers migrated over. humankind will be floating through space looking for new habitable planets and galaxies by then, and they cant take the risk that they will still be running windows 2008 then, to do so. hence i got the call.

take care

Fuck me, i have to deal with some cunts. i might have mentioned it before, but recruitment agents are scum, but they are scum i have to deal with to get contracts. why firms use them is beyond me. hopefully tools like linkedin make recruitment agencies extinct. cant happen soon enough. 

am currently dealing with someone at an agency is who is so thick and yet so patronising. despite this being my 14th contract, she gave me a 30 minute interview prep and asked me if was planning on wearing a suit and shoes to the interview. i replied that was a good idea and i might not wear my jeans and a t-shirt this time.  

she then gave me some set questions to ask in the interview which were terrible. i said i would not ask those questions in the interview. she seemed offended and asked why?. because its unprofessional and makes you look like a dumb ass to ask the person interviewing you, to give you feedback on how the interview went, at the end of an interview. that's why?. 

anyway, i got the job today despite not using her dumb interview tips. today she calls me to say i should BCC her in emails that i send to other agencies cancelling other job opportunities and interviews i had lined up. what the fuck!!!?. after 10 minutes of angrily protesting how unethical it was to blindly copy her into emails with competitors revealing confidential commercial information, she said she would get her director to speak to me as it was vital she was bcc'd for the offer to be accepted. yeah!, put another idiot on the phone, i want to hear what this prick has to say. 

some slimy shit then comes on the phone and tries to justify it. i then explain once again how unprofessional and unethical it is to share commercially sensitive information from rival agencies without their knowledge. he then asks me to just forward the emails, redacting the names of clients and the agents and the agencies. OK. what is the fucking point of that you halfwit. 

i then sent back a redacted email which i might as well have written to myself which deleted the name and email address of the agent i sent it to, his firm and the client i had been put forward for was also deleted. the mail contained no information aside from saying "i no longer wanted to pursue the role". i might as well have sent the director this blog post as proof. dumb ass!.  

anyways, it seems to be going through now. we need to take care. out integrity is really all we have. people try and buy our ethics and morals. there are lots of sharks and maggots out there trying to push people into doing shady things just for money. 

dont like

i tend to post about the cunts i come across living in london but there are some people in this city that i respect and admire and which show how nice and decent human beings can be to each other.

a couple of weeks ago i am parking up at a shopping center. a car cuts across me and pulls into a disabled bay which are right next to the entrance. a middle aged woman around 45, steps out of the car and i assume her daughter who looks about 18, gets out the passenger side and they walk into the centre. neither was disabled and they were related. they had a resemblance and they both looked like cunts. 

about a week ago i was in a clinic getting an immunisation injection done for my little baby boy. there was another woman there who was waiting to have the same done for her son. her little boy had a severe head deformity and also seemed to have some respiratory difficultly as well. i think he might have also had an issue with his eyes. it was upsetting to see such a little baby have to deal with such serious medical problems but the little boy was also showing spirit in still making it through his first few months of life despite all these difficulties which will likely last for the rest of his life.
i also have immeasurable respect for the way his mother was looking after him and how challenging it must be to look after the little man on a daily basis. they both have my admiration. wonderful people supporting each other and the force of will and strength of the little man to deal with his severe medical conditions. i have been thinking of that little boy every day since i saw him.

i have also been thinking of the woman and her teenage daughter who parked their SUV in the disabled parking bay and then walked into the shopping center. you have my utter contempt you cunts. those spaces are for people like the little baby or for those that would find it difficult parking in a multi storey car park 40 meters from the entrance and where they would have to take a lift to reach it. 
that cunt and her cunt daughter dont care about people that might have some physical impairment. fuck them, we are more important. the section they parked in is disabled parking only. its not like its a mixed zone and they made a mistake. there are no non-disabled badge holders parking in that area. its 20 spaces on ground level right next to the entrance. middle class scum in their 40 grand SUV parked in a disabled bay shopping in John Lewis. 

PS: today i was at a supermarket, parked in parent/baby/toddler zone, because i have a baby and a pram with me. a man pulls up next to me in his range rover and gets out. his 2 daughters are with him and they get out as well. neither are toddlers or babies and they obviously dont have a pram. they were about 10 and 8. he was wearing a tight pink t shirt and tight jeans. he looked about 50 but dressed like he was in jersey shore. he might have even had a fake tan. what a cunt.

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what a very brave and principled person. As Kaepernick has found, campaigning for equality and justice for people is objected to by those who have power.

audi cunts

see, i told you people who drive low end audis are cunts.

i was driving back from the gym and someone suddenly braked in front of me to take a left turn. i had noticed that they had been driving erratically and i dont think they knew where they were going. no problem. i braked as well, but the audi A4 behind me got upset and started beeping at me. obviously i should not have stopped and just crashed into the car in front. 

then after the car in front had made its turn, the audi started tailgating me and then overtook aggressively passing close. he was very annoyed.

it was a dark coloured 2009 audi a4 estate diesel. i would be annoyed if i had to drive around in a 10 year old piece of shit like that as well. i would be angry that i would have to pay 12.50/day surcharge to enter central London in that piece of crap. i would be angry with myself that i did not work harder in school so that i could get a better paying job that would mean i could afford a decent car. 

.....and maybe it stung more that despite the benefit of systematic and institutional racism, he got momentarily held up behind the child of immigrants driving a Benz. reap it you cunt. 

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from the best album of 2018.

i occasionally mention how many cunts i come across in London. Nipsey Hussle was shot and killed last week. it turns out there are cunts in LA as well.

RIP Nipsey Hussle.