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Railway job... maybe...


rockershovel

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Just had an interesting job come in from an agency I haven't worked for before. Basically, clearing an accumulated backlog of NCR and related paperwork, with a possible extension to drive and implement improvements.

 

So far it has only produced various excuses and delays, the start date having slipped by about ten days so far. A common problem with jobs for European companies, theres a contractors joke to the effect that the most important meeting with a German company is the one at which the job is given to a German behind your back... ho hum, press on...

 

Meanwhile, another enquiry for work at a major pipeline project. I went to the first phase of this for one trip, and stayed for two years..

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More "contract work follies"... the Pipeline job reached the point of booking flights, before someone realised that essential consents were not in place, and had been rejected... so THAT one is on the back burner again... still, I've reached the final stage of the selection procedure with a recruiter I wasn't previously known to, so press on...

 

The railway job has stalled amid the sort of contractual issues that sometimes occurs between purchasers and contract directors, which I have no input into and can't influence. A possible solution is to re-route the job through an established recruiter, although this isn't as easy as it sounds, for various reasons. Ho hum, press on..

 

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After much to and fro, the railway job now appears to be GO for Monday. So, I'm only 2 weeks money out of pocket, for reasons I care nothing about and have no input into, and appear to be more a matter of opinion than fact in any case.

 

..... and some people wonder why I tend to show a countenance of ill-tempered cynicism and disgust to the world at large....

 

 

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