Work?

[dellzeqq]

How on earth did that happen? Man sends me an e-mail out of the blue, saying I'm recommended, send back snappy reply starting with 'I'm not sure I'm the person you want', go up to meet them, shake hands, sit down, do they want to see my drawings 'well, if you want to show them to us', so, one minute in to interview they say 'this isn't an interview, if you'd like to come and work here we'd like that - how much do you want?' And in answer to the question about bike parking they said that they rode bikes to work and bringing them in to the office was not a problem.

Harumph! Isn't there some kind of a recession on? There I was contentedly picking the spoils from the sweated brow of the workers, and, whammo, Her Nibs is saying 'oooh, you can buy me presents'.

Happily it's only for a few months, so I'll be toddling around on the bike by June. And it is megalopitan high rise, so I'll get skads and skads of St. Pete Points.

 

[snorri]

Cycle parking is certainly an important condition of employment, but do they allow access to CC during working hours?

 

[dellzeqq]

Cycle parking is certainly an important condition of employment, but do they allow access to CC during working hours?

I wouldn't in any case. It's the kind of work that is so absorbing that you really don't want to look away. And, unbelievably, the office closes at 5.30 - none of that through the night stuff. I might content myself with a nightly CC roundup. I'm sure Gary will welcome my thoughts on concrete frames and deep plan flats.

 

[biggs682]

Cycle parking is certainly an important condition of employment, but do they allow access to CC during working hours?

dp any firms allow unlimited interent access for personal use !

 

[srw]

dp any firms allow unlimited interent access for personal use !

Many turn a blind eye to it - as the number of people on here during the working day demonstrates.

 

[srw]

So, Dell - what's the catch? Is this a John Grisham novel? Is the client a Barclay brother?

 

[dellzeqq]

So, Dell - what's the catch? Is this a John Grisham novel? Is the client a Barclay brother?

there is a catch. The 'client' is in fact two parties. The people who hired me work for one of them. It's possible that the other will try and edge us out. That's pretty standard practice, and, if it happens I'll get no more than a couple of weeks work out of it. But, hey, it's not like I was looking, and the scheme is so lovely that any time spent on it will be a great pleasure.

 

[Archie_tect]

So you only have to draw out the ground floor Retail and Service Core, the Floor 2 Commercial/ Leisure club plan and the Residential Floor Plan No. 3 and then cut and paste Floor 3 onto Floor Plans 4-42, a couple of plant room floors, et voila!!....

 

[GrumpyGregry]

dp any firms allow unlimited interent access for personal use !

lots of unregulated ones do yes. Though my interpretation of unlimited may be different to yours.

 

[dellzeqq]

So you only have to draw out the ground floor Retail and Service Core, the Floor 2 Commercial/ Leisure club plan and the Residential Floor Plan No. 3 and then cut and paste Floor 3 onto Floor Plans 4-42, a couple of plant room floors, et voila!!....

they're ribbon blocks rather than point blocks. Street forming. And, yes, there's repetition, but the job is really about articulation - detailing the blocks to make them human on the outside and yumptious on the inside. Oh - and, post planning the brief has changed, so there's lots of scrabbling for millimetres going on. I'm sure you've been there many a time. I'll send you a PM tomorrow.........

this, by the way, was my last full time work job...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/dec/16/london-property-tax-avoidance-offshore (and '27' was cheap). The cornice is by Locker and Riley and the door head is mine. It's an upper floor, so not at all grand. The paint colour is by Nicky Haslam, who is a genius - not many people could get away with specifying sheers (net curtains) that cost five grand.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Harumph! Isn't there some kind of a recession on?

I was wondering about this, after I was made redundant in 2010 and after a few month agency work I got this job working as an order picker in a warehouse, the thing is most of the time I've been there the stuff has been flying out the door faster than they can make it, often we can't pick the orders fast enough, so wheres this recession we keep hearing about.?

 

[slowmotion]

they're ribbon blocks rather than point blocks. Street forming. And, yes, there's repetition, but the job is really about articulation - detailing the blocks to make them human on the outside and yumptious on the inside.

Will you treat us to a site visit on the 29th? Will it be Windows or Death?

 

[subaqua]

So you only have to draw out the ground floor Retail and Service Core, the Floor 2 Commercial/ Leisure club plan and the Residential Floor Plan No. 3 and then cut and paste Floor 3 onto Floor Plans 4-42, a couple of plant room floors, et voila!!....

you could possibly work for one of several architect practices we regularly suffer have to deal with

 

[Archie_tect]

Can't be me sub... since I started on my own I've never willingly designed higher than 4 floors, not including basement car parks and nothing south of Halifax [apart from a very unhappy experience dealing with excessively Welsh Welsh people at Denbighshire County Council]!

 

[Globalti]

I was wondering about this, after I was made redundant in 2010 and after a few month agency work I got this job working as an order picker in a warehouse, the thing is most of the time I've been there the stuff has been flying out the door faster than they can make it, often we can't pick the orders fast enough, so wheres this recession we keep hearing about.?

I've been pondering this for a few months now. The company for which I work is breaking export records almost monthly and building a massive new automated factory here in Manchester. Other exporters who I know say they are desperately busy and my travel agent says you can't get seats on flights to business destinations. At the same time internet sales are booming and you're a fool if you walk into a shop and pay the full retail price for anything. My belief is that whoever gathers figures for the government is actually ignorant of the "informal" internet sector and the export sector and just goes around the High Street counting empty shops..