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    An agency based in London that deals with investment banks and normally has BA roles at 450+ sent me a role today for 200 INSIDE IR35!

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      Originally posted by hungry_hog View Post
      An agency based in London that deals with investment banks and normally has BA roles at 450+ sent me a role today for 200 INSIDE IR35!
      HOW DARE THEY!!
      insensitive scumbags.
      send a gunboat.

      feckwit.

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        Originally posted by hungry_hog View Post
        An agency based in London that deals with investment banks and normally has BA roles at 450+ sent me a role today for 200 INSIDE IR35!
        wow! just wow!. Looks like these £200+ day rate roles are real then.

        I hope the dev market is not like that

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          Originally posted by BritishLad88 View Post
          wow! just wow!. Looks like these £200+ day rate roles are real then.

          I hope the dev market is not like that
          whats a dev? - pondlife?

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            Originally posted by PlanB View Post
            If they were stupid enough to say that in an interview then you have an age discrimination case right there.

            Realistically people with 25 years to work before state retirement have to be given equal opportunity or the entire pension system will collapse.

            You can’t pay for an extended holiday of 50 years off 20 years work.

            This needs to be treated every bit as seriously as racism and sex discrimination.
            I think I do. I am taking this further. I need to take a stand against this otherwise it will keep on happening. I have raised a grievance with the agent and asked for him to kick one off in their in house grievance procedure, or signpost me to someone in house that can help.

            Sent from my CLT-L09 using Contractor UK Forum mobile app
            Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.

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              Originally posted by BR14 View Post
              whats a dev? - pondlife?
              Developer

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                Originally posted by suityou01 View Post
                I think I do. I am taking this further. I need to take a stand against this otherwise it will keep on happening. I have raised a grievance with the agent and asked for him to kick one off in their in house grievance procedure, or signpost me to someone in house that can help.

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                honestly, if they didn't mention the ages then i don't think you have a case against them. there's nothing wrong with saying 'young' team. its open to interpretation either direction

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                  Originally posted by BritishLad88 View Post
                  honestly, if they didn't mention the ages then i don't think you have a case against them. there's nothing wrong with saying 'young' team. its open to interpretation either direction
                  But there is everything wrong with saying he had his doubts I could adapt to such a young team. That is, in my mind at least, discrimination. Or to put it another way, would he have raised it as a concern if I was 20 years younger? No, because it wouldnt be relevant.

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                  Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.

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                    Go No-Win No-Fee

                    Originally posted by suityou01 View Post
                    I am taking this further.
                    They gave you a task. You took three days, the other guy did it six times faster. You're going to have a job living that down in court.
                    "Don't part with your illusions; when they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live" Mark Twain

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                      Originally posted by suityou01 View Post
                      I applied for a permie gig. 3 day technical test. Yes, 3 days. I had to rewrite their project as it was for a much older version of. Net that would only run on Windows, and they agreed it was OK for me to do it in. NET core on Linux.
                      Are you 100% sure it was a test? Without taking the piss, I would expect the work you did would cost an average client about £10k.

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