Bugger !

Spent £1600 on a lovely new EOS-10D and lens on Saturday and today I get laid off. What timing...

The company I have been working at for the last 5+ years (Onyx Software) has had another knightmare quarter, so it's finally time for all us contractors to say goodbye. I guess five and a half years isn't too bad for a short term contract though !

So if anyone needs an Intranet/Extranet (mostly IE/IIS) architect/developer contractor in the Surrey/Berks/Hants/Sussex area, let me know...

The shock of realising I'm not going to be working with the same team I have known and loved for the last five years is far more disturbing than actually losing the contract.

Sorry to hear that.

I hope you'll find a new, hopefully as good, and preferably better job soon.

preferably better job soon

The chances of me finding a job with a comparable working enviroment is very slim I'm afraid. Laid back doesn't even begin to describe our team. I'm really going to miss being able to come and go as I please and just being trusted to deliver rather than being checked up on all the time...

I'm really going to miss being able to come and go as I please and just being trusted to deliver rather than being checked up on all the time...

So it seems you weren't really working these last five years; sounds more like a long dream .

Seriously, I'm sorry to hear about this. I had to go from a very comfortable team and casual dress to a more corporate environment (in which I now wear a tie to work). The worst part was not working with another programmer (who was an empegger BTW) who thought so much like me that you couldn't tell our code apart. It was nice while it lasted though.

Spent £1600 on a lovely new EOS-10D and lens on Saturday and today I get laid off. What timing...

Perfect timing, it sounds like. I mean... If you'd been laid off on Friday, you probably wouldn't have that nifty new camera, would you?

so it's finally time for all us contractors to say goodbye

You ought to all join up together and start your own consulting firm...

I also got laid off on Friday. Anyone looking for a Network Administrator in NorthEastern Massachusetts/Boston area?

I'm also trying to start my own business doing home networking/consulting and web hosting on the side.

Perfect timing, it sounds like. I mean... If you'd been laid off on Friday, you probably wouldn't have that nifty new camera, would you?

Yeah, I've been trying to look at it that way. Mostly today though I have been wandering around looking very dazed.

You ought to all join up together and start your own consulting firm...

It's something we talked about. I can't see it working though, we're all too nice to each other to actually work for each other without some high authority giving us some general direction...

We'd need to poach all the permies as well for it to be viable and that would leave our other team members (the ones in the US) in a nasty situation. It's a shame, because we are such a good team.

I had to go from a very comfortable team and casual dress to a more corporate environment (in which I now wear a tie to work). The worst part was not working with another programmer (who was an empegger BTW) who thought so much like me that you couldn't tell our code apart. It was nice while it lasted though.

I know how you feel. We had seen lots of crappy/unpleasant developers (both contractors and permies) pass through the team over the last five years, with just the competant/fun ones staying. I really can't believe that in a month's time I'm not going to be sitting down and having laugh with these people five days a week.

I'm very sad today

The shock of realising I'm not going to be working with the same team I have known and loved for the last five years is far more disturbing than actually losing the contract.

Sorry to hear that. I know how you feel, I miss the guys I used to work with terribly. I have to work with morons now.

I have to work with morons now.

Morons who, you hope, don't read this BBS.

That is terrible, it is no fun having to find another job. Surely there must be some one here on the board that knows of someone hiring in your area. Anyway, good luck.

Morons who, you hope, don't read this BBS.

No, I've actually started calling them on their incompetence and stupidity. You wanted to work with a bitch, you got it.