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Originally posted by A Tablecloth View Post
I don't think you understand the dynamic at NW. It's the contractors that do the work while the permies do very little from what I saw.
This is a very interesting perspective and goes well with something that happened to me last year.
I applied for a permanent role via a recruitment agency (AMS). I really liked their remote first working policy and NW was on my list of companies I wanted to work with.
All well, I did the 2 interviews and I highlighted my career aspirations and how I wanted to work hard and climb the career ladder (coming from contracting, I thought that would be a good way of reassuring them I wouldn't leave them after 6 months).
I got rejected for the permie role. The agent said he wasn't 100% sure about it but he felt that NW rejected me because I was too enthusiastic and too focused on career progress rather than do as I'm told and do my day-to-day job. He then said that NW wanted to ask me if I would consider contracting with them instead.
So yeah, maybe it is true. Contractors do all the work while permies only want to sit on their golden chairs without other over enthusiastic permies threatening them. Interesting.Comment
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Originally posted by PCTNN View Post
This is a very interesting perspective and goes well with something that happened to me last year.
I applied for a permanent role via a recruitment agency (AMS). I really liked their remote first working policy and NW was on my list of companies I wanted to work with.
All well, I did the 2 interviews and I highlighted my career aspirations and how I wanted to work hard and climb the career ladder (coming from contracting, I thought that would be a good way of reassuring them I wouldn't leave them after 6 months).
I got rejected for the permie role. The agent said he wasn't 100% sure about it but he felt that NW rejected me because I was too enthusiastic and too focused on career progress rather than do as I'm told and do my day-to-day job. He then said that NW wanted to ask me if I would consider contracting with them instead.
So yeah, maybe it is true. Contractors do all the work while permies only want to sit on their golden chairs without other over enthusiastic permies threatening them. Interesting.
So, is AMS Alexander Mann Solutions?
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Originally posted by Guy At Charnock Richard View Post
That is interesting indeed - it seems the legacy of Phil Williamson continues and the permies are spending all their time sitting on their ample rear ends in "Chill 24" while the contractors attend to the not particularly demanding business in hand.
So, is AMS Alexander Mann Solutions?'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!Comment
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Originally posted by Guy At Charnock Richard View Postwhile the contractors attend to the not particularly demanding business in hand.
Too bad I was looking for permanent employment back then.Comment
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While I was still permanent I had an interview with them for what would have been my first contract in about 2008. Nice office building in memory serves.Comment
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Originally posted by SussexSeagull View PostWhile I was still permanent I had an interview with them for what would have been my first contract in about 2008. Nice office building in memory serves.Former IPSE member
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Good place to work, but the staff were rank amateurs. How else would you explain me having to find several hundred virtual C: drives for their PCs because they cba to log changes to the large SAN that held them (along with loads of other important stuff and databases)? Not a problem until it all had to be relocated to a new datacentre...Blog? What blog...?Comment
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Originally posted by courtg9000 View Post
The offices were rather nice back when I was there, canteen half decent too. As I said previously a lot of good quality totty.Comment
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I was at Nationwide in 2007/8. Worked in some random office attached to a warehouse that shipped out their leaflets and stuff. I wasn't in packing, I was working on a ISO audit and discovered they had recursive nested groups in their AD which was entertaining.Comment
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