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    As you sow, so shall you reap

    Gov needs to splash 245m on IT contractors



    HAHAHAHAHAHAH!
    "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
    - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

    #2
    Won't they just get Crapita in instead? And pay 10 times the price.

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      #3
      Originally posted by cojak View Post
      Oh dear
      The Chunt of Chunts.

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        #4
        Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
        Won't they just get Crapita in instead? And pay 10 times the price.
        For a tenth of the quality...
        Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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          #5
          Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
          Get Crapita in instead. And pay 10 times the price.
          Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
          For a tenth of the quality...
          That should be their mission statement.

          I see Brillo saying his bit in a Barry Scott Cillit Bang voice, and then NAT as one of those reassuring voice over ladies advertising adult continence aids to shauny on daytime telly.

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            #6
            Whilst we laugh, it's ****ing outrageous really. Also, there'll be a 'skills shortage' even though there's plenty on the bench.

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              #7
              Originally posted by cojak View Post
              I particularly liked this bit:

              Originally posted by El Reg
              However, the issue of skills will only be exacerbated as thousands of tech contractors are set to leave the public sector amid a major crackdown on the tax freelancers pay via IR35.
              "Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.

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                #8
                Originally posted by gables View Post
                Whilst we laugh, it's ****ing outrageous really. Also, there'll be a 'skills shortage' even though there's plenty on the bench.
                Nah we just get them from India and then get a third of that number in the UK to manage them.
                "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
                  Nah we just get them from India and then get a third of that number in the UK to manage them.
                  Empire 2.0
                  Help preserve the right to be a contractor in the UK

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
                    Nah we just get them from India and then get a third of that number in the UK to manage them.
                    What I meant was, it'll be reported as a skills shortage by press\politicians, then we'll do as you say :-)

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