Market Must be at Rock Bottom ( or thereabouts )

[slickcontractor]

Finally Joe is in. But he is "busy meeting with a client".

"can I please have Joe's last name I ask".

The person on the line fumbles and comes up with, obviously the first thing that hits his little pea-brain..."Black...yeah yeah...Joe Black"

"Good movie" I tell him..."yes it was" he agrees.

Quality

[weemster]

Jokers !

I thought Nexxus were a decent outfit !

[BoredBloke]

If you are bored then why not return the favour and send them a duff CV and contact details of fake people at client companies.

[zamzummim]

Been watching American financial news morning program, seems everyone is optimistic and confident that the recession is winding down now, they predicted that we’ll see a growth in the first quarter of 2010, everyone is doing a cautious happy dance . I gather that for contractors, this means more work/rates during the second quarter of next year.

[PM-Junkie]

Been watching American financial news morning program, seems everyone is optimistic and confident that the recession is winding down now, they predicted that we’ll see a growth in the first quarter of 2010, everyone is doing a cautious happy dance . I gather that for contractors, this means more work/rates during the second quarter of next year.

Bear in mind that, if history is anything to go by, the contract marked usually picks up at least one quarter before the dingbats in the media cotton on to the fact that a recession is ending.

[RichardCranium]

In my last foray into the City a couple of weeks ago, I saw there were quite a few construction cranes present.

They used to be a marker for the state of the economy.

Sadly I could not get high up to count them. Does anyone else do this? Do they have an opinion?

[oracleslave]

In my last foray into the City a couple of weeks ago, I saw there were quite a few construction cranes present.

They used to be a marker for the state of the economy.

Sadly I could not get high up to count them. Does anyone else do this? Do they have an opinion?

Not quite the same but I do tend to take notice of any construction I see in a particular area and equate it to the economy. I don't think there's any sense in doing it but I can't help it. They're probably all abandoned and the cranes are the last thing to be removed from site...

[sweetandsour]

In my last foray into the City a couple of weeks ago, I saw there were quite a few construction cranes present.

They used to be a marker for the state of the economy.

Sadly I could not get high up to count them. Does anyone else do this? Do they have an opinion?

Not quite the same but I do tend to take notice of any construction I see in a particular area and equate it to the economy. I don't think there's any sense in doing it but I can't help it. They're probably all abandoned and the cranes are the last thing to be removed from site...

It was always the case that the cranes were a good sign of activity because they (used to) cost a fortune to hire.

At the end of last year I did notice that work on some major building projects in the City had ground to a halt.

I don't know if things have started to pick up again, I haven't had occasion to go back there recently.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Cranes are a bit of a lagging indicator because a project would be well underway before they appeared.

Someone elsewhere suggests a skip index i.e. count the number of skips in the street in an area. It's a far more responsive indicator.

[Evil Hangover]

Someone elsewhere suggests a skip index i.e. count the number of skips in the street in an area. It's a far more responsive indicator.

Another good proxy is the number of white vans (trying to run you over!)