Indian agencies

[vwdan]

With regards to accents, the same has been proven scientifically for the birmingham accent.
(in that it illicits no confidence in the speaker)

god/allah/buddha (delete as applicable) help you if you are a "bob" from brum.

I'm from the West Midlands and every time someone asks me where I'm from and then says "Wow, you don't have much of an accent" I breathe a sigh of relief.

[TheFaQQer]

I'm from the West Midlands and every time someone asks me where I'm from and then says "Wow, you don't have much of an accent" I breathe a sigh of relief.

Bostin, innit?

[vwdan]

Bostin, innit?

No

[bluedrop]

I tell them straight "I don't work for Indian companies" ... One guy couldn't believe what he heard, he repeated what I said (with a ? ). I said yes bad hung up.

It's rude I know, but I worked in a sweat shop (offshore Indian IT) for 6yrs. Women are treated unfairly, women paid less for the same role, horrible politics, man eats man world, absolute slavery (work day of 10hrs is a norm, 12 hrs is quite common), lack of ethics or even basic manners. Yes, they ask you to relocate and you have to.

[cojak]

With regards to accents, the same has been proven scientifically for the birmingham accent.
(in that it illicits no confidence in the speaker)

god/allah/buddha (delete as applicable) help you if you are a "bob" from brum.

There are no Bobs in Brum (unless their Mothers called them Robert, or they've got a visa, obv)

[eek]

I tell them straight "I don't work for Indian companies" ... One guy couldn't believe what he heard, he repeated what I said (with a ? ). I said yes bad hung up.

I'm never apply for them and just refuse once I hear the name. Prime example is some work up in Newcastle at the moment skill-set says £425, max offered £265....

Oh and this is for "security cleared"...

[psychocandy]

I'm never apply for them and just refuse once I hear the name. Prime example is some work up in Newcastle at the moment skill-set says £425, max offered £265....

Oh and this is for "security cleared"...

Yep. I had something similar. Same sort of rates. SC role (mine has expired). Rate was not great. No chance of getting someone I thought.

So they lopped £50 off (getting close to £250 now) and said they'd put me through SC. Hmmm. To be honest role was good, even if rate wasnt, it was local, and I thought do for 6 months and get SC back and then bail out.

In the end, they must have got someone dull enough to do it with current SC.

[tomtomagain]

The problem with refusing to work with Bob consultancies/agencies is that it plays straight into their hands.

They don't give a tulip if the end clients project is done on time or not. They can say "We advertised the role. No takers. Now we can get more off-shore staff in".

[vwdan]

The problem with refusing to work with Bob consultancies/agencies is that it plays straight into their hands.

They don't give a tulip if the end clients project is done on time or not. They can say "We advertised the role. No takers. Now we can get more off-shore staff in".

That's fine by me - it'll go full circle and eventually clients will be sick to death of dealing with off-shore failures.

[tomtomagain]

That's fine by me - it'll go full circle and eventually clients will be sick to death of dealing with off-shore failures.

The problem is that a lot of large companies don't actually know they are being ripped off. They've got rid of almost all their in-house technical capability and tried to compensate by loading themselves up with "Process" to make up the shortfall.

They've long ago lost the ability to judge how long a task should take. 30k to make a one-line change to a stored procedure? No problem at all. Where do I sign?