Miners, shipbuilders, IT contractors?

[wurzel]

What on earth does this have to say about the market? If everyone from across the world can get in surely the market is all right?

What it says is that rates are at an all time low in my area of expertise & while I acknowledge that some of this is down to the crap economic situation some of it must be down to the huge influx of cheap labour from India.

[pacharan]

What it says is that rates are at an all time low in my area of expertise & while I acknowledge that some of this is down to the crap economic situation some of it must be down to the huge influx of cheap labour from India.

Not so sure I don't detect an element of racism in that post.

Why just single out India? People come to work here from all over the world.

Perhaps because they are brown?

[Wils]

Not so sure I don't detect an element of racism in that post.

Why just single out India? People come to work here from all over the world.

Perhaps because they are brown?

Not so sure I don't detect an element of over-sensitivity in that post.

Perhaps because they are brown?

[pacharan]

Not so sure I don't detect an element of over-sensitivity in that post.

Perhaps because they are brown?

I was being ironic.

[Wils]

I was being ironic.

I drank too much caffeine this morning.

[nomadd]

Not so sure I don't detect an element of racism in that post.

Why just single out India? People come to work here from all over the world.

Perhaps because they are brown?

...Or perhaps because 90% of them are from India.

[Graemsay]

I'm getting a bit hacked off with the contracting game myself.

It's the usual combination of rates being driven down (including inflation, I've taken a 40% hit since 2008), and incompetent and aggressive agents (currently being badgered about a contract that's paying equivalent to a graduate salary).

Then again, I spoke to an agent about permanent positions the other day, and he suggested that they'd be a no-go area unless I got a long term (two year) contract under my belt first.

I'd agree about the number of immigrant workers too. In my last contract, more than half the team was from India. On the other half there were two Brits, including myself, a Frenchman and a Pole.

[northernladuk]

I'd agree about the number of immigrant workers too. In my last contract, more than half the team was from India. On the other half there were two Brits, including myself, a Frenchman and a Pole.

That team structure is bound to change in the coming period I bet

[Ignis Fatuus]

Not so sure I don't detect an element of racism in that post.

Why just single out India? People come to work here from all over the world.

Perhaps because they are brown?

ISTM that Australians and South Africans don't come over here in vast numbers to work for a quarter of what I need to live because I'm embedded in this economy and they are not. ISTM that a large number of Indians do.

I don't like that. I don't give a tuppeny dam what colour their skin is.

[Scoobos]

WHS +1

The last role but 1, 2 UK workers (me and a scrum master) on the project 35 India staff intra'd in. The operating cost of the 30 was 6000 coding. That's 200 a week in Leeds or less than 5 quid an hour.

I've worked around the world and what gets my goat is how the working visa is granted. These are all outside the EU , if you want a reciprocal visa you're dreaming. I'm convinced that there is no easier place to get a visa than the UK.

Its not racism to be frustrated by globalisation and the exploitation / or lack of protection of immigrant or conversely, domestic workers.

This was a public sector project too.