Re: Serves the bastards right
"Worked" for them for about 3 months.
Took about half that time to find out which programme I was actually assigned to.
Never spoke with any colleagues or managers on said programme.
Tried, almost daily for just over the first month to track them down internally (the people that interviewed me/the ones who sent the laptop etc) and externally (the agency). No luck.
After that I tried roughly a couple of times a week.
I remained signed into Teams and available all that time.
They terminated my contract stating that as I'd "purposefully made myself unavailable", they would not be paying the last month. Because I was expecting something like that I had copies of all the Teams messages, WhatsApp and texts, and emails I'd sent along with asking them to show where I was not logged into Teams or the times outside of lunch etc when I was not showing available.
With no further correspondence I got paid for the final month.
That was all weird enough in and of itself, but when I started another role I bumped into a guy who they'd done precisely the same thing to. Literally on the same programme and given the time frames I reckon I was his direct replacement.