[LRUG] [JOBS] Contracts & Remote roles

[Rory Sinclair]

Thanks for the laughs Paul, you brightened up my morning.  And yes, it all sounds dreadful from an ‘actually getting shit done’ point of view.

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Rory Sinclair
Head of Technology
ASMALLWORLD


On Friday, 1 August 2014 at 12:08, Paul Robinson wrote:

> Pardon me for being a grump. But!
>  
> On 1 August 2014 11:37, Louis Goff-Beardsley <louis at infinitiumglobal.com (mailto:louis at infinitiumglobal.com)> wrote:
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> >  
> > ·         Table football tables IN THE OFFICE.  
> > ·         I know that sounds crazy. These are work places and table football is a recreational activity. These companies break the rules and simply just don’t care.
> >  
>  
>  
> That sounds awful.  
>  
> I'm not in the market, but if I took this role and was trying to get work done - and if I had signed a £500/day contract (equivalent to £100k/year on 200 work days/year), I would feel professionally obliged to ship code pretty consistently - having a bunch of people next to my desk playing table football would be incredibly distracting. I'd probably have to insist on working from home.  
>  
> I get it, work + play = less stress.
>  
> But, you know, we're here to work, right? And developers need peace and quiet, yes? So how is being constantly interrupted a perk?
>  
> Or is getting work done a bit too boring these days? I'm clearly getting old. :-)
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> >  
> > ·         Relaxed dress code. Finally no need to wear a suit and tie every single day.
> >  
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> I haven't worn a tie every single day since I left school.
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> I don't think I have ever seen a Ruby developer in a suit and tie in a professional context (weddings, etc., sure).
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> > ·         Unique chance to be free and express yourself with clothes.
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> That sounds a little bit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhAr_UeroCk   
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> I'm also not sure it's that unique. Have you walked around Old Street recently? Preeeeeeeeetty crazy fashions out there. There's a lot of expression going on in this town.
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> > ·         Various locations around London.
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> Hackney AND Shoreditch? :-D  
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