I got paid by the government to do bog all - and no I don't mean the dole!!
I was working on an IT project for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets for a software roll out. I'd been there for a few months and due to the project manager being unable to locate her posterior with any forms of cartography there was a two month period where there was next to no work what so ever. It got so ridiculous in the end that I would turn up for work on the Monday and be given my weeks work for all the sites I covered over the whole borough. Every week this was the same and every week I'd be told not to come back to the office until the meeting on Friday. So everyweek I'd come in on Monday, finish my weeks work by about 2pm, go home, come in on the Friday for a half hour meeting and get paid for 37'5 hours work. It was great. Occationally my boss would call me when I was home and ask me what site I was at as she wanted to see me, but I'd just say I was at the furthest one away as it took the same time to get from there to the Head office as it did my house!
( riverghost servicing your mum since, Thu 30 Sep 2004, 15:30, Reply)