Wipro Contract with Lloyd’s Banking Group via Agency

[simes]

I've got a good three months earnings set aside – so could be worth the punt.

How many months' Living have you got set aside?

[uk contractor]

OP would not worry much about wipro. As others have already said you will only be there about 4-6 months until they can identify the scope of the role & replace you for someone imported from outside the UK way cheaper who will also be highly arrogant even though they will be earning £100 a day max!! The attitude they will give you will be eye opening as you train them to replace you!

Lloyds managers will not be an issue either. Most will just ignore you they know you will be replaced & many dislike working with wipro so you will not have much contact with Lloyds management.

Perm Lloyds staff if you have any contact with them as part of the role will probably be the biggest issue (along with knowing you will eventually be replaced by wipro for someone cheaper). When I was there I found several so called experts who hade been perm at Lloyds for many years & would tell you negative things like your the reason their share price is not high enough as they have to pay your over priced contractor salary & or you do not work hard enough which means you are taking food directly from their childrens mouths! Or another one I got was that the main reason I was employed as a contractor was because it was cheaper to do that than make the existing perms redundant & pay them off! None of it makes any sense but there is a lot of fear there about other external staff taking their easy street jobs away. The management do not help either most are only interested in not failing & holding onto their jobs & will throw anyone else into the firing line if something goes wrong.

In almost 30 years IT banking experience Lloyds was one of the worse banking contracts I ever did. Well paid but you earn every penny putting up with a lot of negativity from insecure perms & inexperienced line managers who create massive problems by not taking control to avoid taking any risk which might make them look bad!

[BigDataPro]

I've been rather privileged in my current contract – invoice paid within 14 days of issuing it...

Privileged....huh...I raise invoice on Friday, money in on Wednesday (and my day rate is not cheap!)

[BR14]

Privileged....huh...I raise invoice on Friday, money in on Wednesday (and my day rate is not cheap!)

and does your cat have big bolloks too??

[BigDataPro]

and does your cat have big bolloks too??

Isn't your name Catty Boitch!

[Lenvdb]

WIPRO Experience

Just finished a contract with WIPRO.

It was a tough one. More than often I ended up doing 8-9 hour days. Towards the end with a 20 min lunch break only.
The Agency they pushed me onto was SKAWI.
They offered a contract with terms of 30 days after submitting invoices. These terms were hardly ever met. SKAWI breached this contract 80% of the time just by being late with my payment.
As it stands I have still not been paid for my January invoice, and we are almost half way into March.
SKAWI is to be avoided. Seriously, especially because their policy is to wait to be paid by WIPRO before they will pay you. Unless you are desperate for work

[Bluenose]

The email you get from the agent:

'My client, a multi-billion pound multinational with offices in over 100 countries is looking for a highly experienced, highly motivated specialist who does not mind working in a dynamic, fast paced environment.'

The email you *should* get from the agent but won't:

'Working for WIPRO at LloydsTSB, where working here is better than being un-employed, which you will be once you help train one of the people we have invited in off the street to replace you'.