State of the Market

[Elliegirl]

I keep reading the same posts here, it is like people are stuck in a look. Probably what school conditioning and corporate culture does to you. It was supposed to be smart people, business contractors here, the creme de la creme.

The definition of stupidity is doing the same thing everyday and expecting a different result. £600pd is no longer a good rate inside ir35, barely covers expenses of servicing a contract. They want slaves not contractors. People should just give up and make the world a better place for the rest.

Sell everything, move to Thailand or Spain or whatever floats your boat, live frugally. Take a contract or do a side project because your are genuinely interested and love the scope of the project. Considering you would have low living costs you would be able to consider them now.
Make a life experience of it.

The UK will be dead, social unrest is certain, it can only go downhill from now. Get some balls and take action.

PS: If you barely can make the mortgage payments and you still have 20+ years on that thing, you do not own the house, the house owns you. You are just pretending to own a home for stupid social status games. Win stupid games earn stupid prizes, a life of slavery for yourself and your children.

Rough day??

[Fraidycat]

For some light relief, Andrew Tate's hilarious take on immigrants taking our jobs. NSFW.

https://x.com/TateOfficialUni/status...44037169840463

[LadyPenelope]

For some light relief, Andrew Tate's hilarious take on immigrants taking our jobs. NSFW.

https://x.com/TateOfficialUni/status...44037169840463

Is he allergic to clothes? Perhaps it is some attempt to appeal on a homoerotic basis? Like those big ph*llic cigars he's always chomping.

[sadkingbilly]

Rough day??

normal for the paranoid android.
I thought they'd fecked off a long time ago, but, like a bad smell.................

[squarepeg]

Pretty shocking one for me on the boards at the moment
https://jobserve.com/gb/en/JobSearch...C58BFCE5F04891

IT Service Manager
6 months
£300 per day (Inside IR35)
Hybrid - 2 days per week on site in Blackpool or Manchester

Advertised by multiple agencies on behalf of the DWP. Seen this advertised a few times in the past rather unsurprisingly. 300 inside with travel... Jesus

Works out at around 41k which is low end of the scale for this type of role without considering the contract element of it. It would be more attractive if it was FTC and I haven't had to say that before.

Then there is the location of the office written into the contract. If you live away from Blackpool or Manchester and you have to commute you cannot claim travel expenses, because you are tied to the location of your office not your home. Your meagre takings disappear quite fast.

[SussexSeagull]

For some light relief, Andrew Tate's hilarious take on immigrants taking our jobs. NSFW.

https://x.com/TateOfficialUni/status...44037169840463

How does moving to another country and, allegedly, trafficking women to use in your webcam business fit into this lecture?

[SussexSeagull]

Then there is the location of the office written into the contract. If you live away from Blackpool or Manchester and you have to commute you cannot claim travel expenses, because you are tied to the location of your office not your home. Your meagre takings disappear quite fast.

This is the thing that gets overlooked in the Inside/Outside debate that unless an Inside contract is stupid money it restricts contractors geographically.

[ladymuck]

normal for the paranoid android.
I thought they'd fecked off a long time ago, but, like a bad smell.................

Not a necessary comment, no need for that

[northernladuk]

Not a necessary comment, no need for that

True but Gigi's post wasn't needed in prof either to be fair.

[sadkingbilly]

Not a necessary comment, no need for that

not everyone's familiar with marvin.