Posted Tuesday 4th August 2009 19:03 GMT

When was the last strike? '84? I recall the picket lines at Bracknell...

I remember well the early 90's with the annual company "kick out" events: "Happy New Year. Everyone's on 90 day's notice".

They were even still pulling that one in '96 when I jumped ship to an overseas secondment.

Opinion

David McLeman

My 25 years of comical IT buzzwords

Time to take a sniff at the coffee, perhaps

Will they have to drag him back like last time?

Are you getting what you want?

Playing the SLA long game

More than just middlemen...

Applications must work for the cloud to float

How a Unix killer crawled from the dot-com bust