Alex Mann - I will never deal with again

[Denny]

You claim not to come across as victimised, and then you say:

"Why on earth should I care to understand what things are like for the recruitment industry when their very own industry rests entirely by exploiting and often abusing contractors"

If that is not the bleatings of a whining moaner then I dont know what is.

Well, my dear Dodgy, take a look at the RecruitUK website designed for desparado potential burger flippers and gel haired, wide tied, shiney suited used car salesmen like you. On there you will find scores of the little blighters like some waif out of a Dickens novel bleating their poor little hearts out about exploitative, bullying managers forcing them to meet sales targets, contractors not turning up for interviews, job boards that charge a fortune for not delivering, EBs being shafted by rival EBs trying to steal their business by putting fake ads out to attract all the best candidates, contractors asking for a hike in pay at the 11 th hour or going walkies to another role without so much as a word of thanks for all the hard work and sweat recruiters have put in to press that CV on fax send button. The crimes against them are endless....We haven't seen anything like it since 6 year olds were forced to climb up chimneys during the industrial revolution.

Poor dears! Ahhhh did dums.

While I'm here, let me give you a plaster for your poor little fingy wingy - let me kiss it better. It must be sore after all those CVs you've faxed off today.

[malvolio]

Near enough, that was number 2 on my list...

[DodgyAgent]

Well, my dear Dodgy, take a look at the RecruitUK website designed for desparado potential burger flippers and gel haired, wide tied, shiney suited used car salesmen like you. On there you will find scores of the little blighters like some waif out of a Dickens novel bleating their poor little hearts out about exploitative, bullying managers forcing them to meet sales targets, contractors not turning up for interviews, job boards that charge a fortune for not delivering, EBs being shafted by rival EBs trying to steal their business by putting fake ads out to attract all the best candidates, contractors asking for a hike in pay at the 11 th hour or going walkies to another role without so much as a word of thanks for all the hard work and sweat recruiters have put in to press that CV on fax send button. The crimes against them are endless....We haven't seen anything like it since 6 year olds were forced to climb up chimneys during the industrial revolution.

Poor dears! Ahhhh did dums.

While I'm here, let me give you a plaster for your poor little fingy wingy - let me kiss it better. It must be sore after all those CVs you've faxed off today.

And this individual is entrusted with the serious responsibility of managing projects???

[Denny]

And this individual is entrusted with the serious responsibility of managing projects???

The most you've ever project managed is EB fax machine toner replacements.

[BrowneIssue]

In answer to your first question: RPO stands for Recruitment Process Outsourcing.

Four months on the bench, reading the trade press, job web sites, subscribed to all sorts of work-related and contract related mailing lists and this is the first reference I have seen to RPO and what it stands for.

It's a good job I discovered Contractor UK's fora!

It seems no matter how long you've been at this game, there's always stuff you've never had exposure to that others know all about and think everyone else knows all about.

[DodgyAgent]

The most you've ever project managed is EB fax machine toner replacements.

That's quite funny for you.

[puterDude]

... this is the first reference I have seen to RPO and what it stands for ...

Here are some other really useful definitions for the acronym RPO (courtesy of http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com)

Radiation Protection Officer
Railway Post Office
Random Pre-Ordering
Really P!zzed Off
Reasonable and Prudent Operator
Record Purpose Only
Recovery Point Objective
Recruitment Process Outsourcing
Regional Planning Organization
Regular Production Option
Regulating Petty Officer
Reliability Programs Office
Religious Petty Officer
Repair Parts Order
Responsible Pet Owner
Retail Postal Outlet
Retailer Performance Overview
Reuse Project Officer
Revertive Pulse - Originating
Revolutions Per Orbit
Right Posterior Oblique
Rolling PullOut (aircraft maneuver)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Sam

[Sausage Surprise]

You should be wearing your PCG hat all of the time, if you want to brand yourself as the forum expert on here, which you clearly do.

My attitude has always been to give informed answers, some of which are very long and, I hope helpful, at least to those who have and still continue to PM me. I have also had a laugh at others and myself. Consequently, I should still be the same well respected and high profile poster I once was. It was due to the integrity and effort I put into my answers that I was once a well respected member of this forum, appreciated when posting and missed when not.

That was before a concerted effort was made in the spring of this year to discredit me by you and your merry band of henchmen all becuase of one highly uninformed and inaccurate post from Vito, whoever he is, who claimed incorrectly that I had accused him of being a tax evader. I didn't see you coming to my rescue then, only to take advantage of the situation for your own benefit. Since then, it is clear that some of you on here and probably the same mob posting on the PCG have gone out of their way to hound me off that forum and this one, just because I didn't hold the same ultra right wing or pro-recruiter views as some of you. So I didn't flounce off, as you put it. I was bullied off.

IBullying is not something we should be applauding on here and I'll be damned if I will allow myself to be patronised and ridiculed and misrepresented because I have something to say that doens't fit cosily into some BNP manifesto document or because I am a woman.

We should all be embracing diversity of political views and opinion as well as having a laugh and joke which I am more than capable of doing. There is no room for the kind of bigotry and ignorance that turns so many readers off this forum and turned me off it too for far too long.

It's posts like that, that turns readers off the forums.

[Denny]

It's posts like that, that turns readers off the forums.

I'm glad you agree with me.

[ratewhore]

This is GREAT!!! I have made comment on Denny's posts in the past. I have been off the forum for a few months but it's nice to come back and see she's still full of the same old drivel.

Denny, we all know you're marvellous and we all know you know that the recruitment model is broken. I would have thought with your amazing skills and experience you would have doubled away by now and fixed it!!

But no - you still choose to sit on here and bleat away. Personally, I'd listen to Mal any day as he generally posts informative stuff and, generally, seems to live in the real world rather than the contractor utopia you seem to have dreamed up.

And for what it's worth, I had to threaten Alex Mann with court for late payment. They paid up in full, along with penalties and interest. I would think twice about using them again but the reality for us is, if you have to use them to land the gig you want, you will.