"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 21:27:49 on Thu, 26 Feb
2009, tim..... remarked:
Have you never had any contact with "temp" workers in what you do Roland?

It is quite common for them to confirm attendance and then not do so.

They wouldn't get a second chance, in any of the lines of work I've been
involved in.

I suppose that this does have an effect here.

There is only one end customer for a signalling engineer (though lots of
intermediate employers), whereas people who do what I do can work for any
one of 1000s companies and p*ssing one off isn't career disabling, - point
taken.

tim