Depressing and amazing chat to an agent

[tractor]

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Sorry to burst your bubble but you're not

I have had the conversation nearly word for word, I often suspect that they are working for the large BOB consultancies gathering evidence to show to their clients how much cheaper offshoring is!

Nail, meet head. This is precisely what is happening, next stop, tea and biccies with Vince and that's another 5000 ICT visas.

[MyUserName]

She mailed me and asked for the latest copy of my cv and provided a job spec. She then phoned and prompted me for my cv and added some extra techs they were looking for, I informed her I was busy and if she could put this into an email I would reply at lunch time.

She has now emailed me the extra techs required and called me by the wrong name, for a job that I said I don't want, at a rate I specified was almost half of my minimum.

There is nothing like personal sevice from an agent who really listens to you.


I just followed the email chain down on the second email, it contains the email chain that she has had with another candidate who is willing to do this job for £300 a day and is available immediately. Apparently he is free for an interview on Thursday, I might send him an email and wish him luck.

[cykophysh39]

£300 per day!! You can get a better paid perm job, with all the benefits!

[fullyautomatix]

She mailed me and asked for the latest copy of my cv and provided a job spec. She then phoned and prompted me for my cv and added some extra techs they were looking for, I informed her I was busy and if she could put this into an email I would reply at lunch time.

She has now emailed me the extra techs required and called me by the wrong name, for a job that I said I don't want, at a rate I specified was almost half of my minimum.

There is nothing like personal sevice from an agent who really listens to you.


I just followed the email chain down on the second email, it contains the email chain that she has had with another candidate who is willing to do this job for £300 a day and is available immediately. Apparently he is free for an interview on Thursday, I might send him an email and wish him luck.

So a Bob agent fishing around ? Does it say which client ?

[MyUserName]

So a Bob agent fishing around ? Does it say which client ?

Sadly not :-(

[oilyrag]

Ha ha, this sounds familiar, I know that Bob supplier in chief, Cognizant actually pay their European investment banking contractors £300 per day, but they actually charge the investment bank £800 a day, so they make a nice £500 a day at your expense. I wonder if some of that £500 a day ends up in a brown envelope for this to continue....