How stupid are agents?!!!

**Troll** · 23 October 2006, 10:43

Originally posted by SallyAnne

I've just been tapped up for
a) a permy job
which is
b) based 300 miles away from my home
and more to the point, is
c) part of a "contractor replacement scheme"!!!

Fujitsu are aparently trying to replace all their contractors in one fell swoop with permies. Does anyone know anythgi abou this?
Fair play to them if its true like, but are agents really that stupid to appraoch contractors for these positions?!!!

I despair sometimes, I really do!

All companies do this - some muppet thinks that they can get rid of all the contractors...the permies will do equivalent work & the company will save shed loads of cash.... the reality usually bites after 9 months when the contractors will start to trickle back in.

**Xenophon** · 23 October 2006, 10:49

I understand your despair SallyAnne. There are some prize plonkers out there and no mistake.

**SallyAnne** · 23 October 2006, 10:57

We should all boycott Fujitsu until they admit their stupidity and double our daily rates!

If only we could boycott agents....

I actually had an argument with an agent once cause they were tring to tell me that Manchester was in the North East

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And one tried to tap me up for a job in France...when I asked what I was supposed to do about the language he said "just buy a phrase book, you'll be fine".

What a bunch of utter useless knackers they are.

<shudder> (I'm finishing my contract this week and have to start dealing with them on a day to day basis again) </shudder>

**Buffoon** · 23 October 2006, 12:04

Originally posted by Troll

All companies do this - some muppet thinks that they can get rid of all the contractors...the permies will do equivalent work & the company will save shed loads of cash.... the reality usually bites after 9 months when the contractors will start to trickle back in.

Unfortunately this not the case anymore. Once they realise that permies can’t hack it they will replace them all with an outsource provider.

**Forumbore** · 23 October 2006, 12:19

Originally posted by SallyAnne

We should all boycott Fujitsu until they admit their stupidity and double our daily rates!

If only we could boycott agents....

I actually had an argument with an agent once cause they were tring to tell me that Manchester was in the North East

/

And one tried to tap me up for a job in France...when I asked what I was supposed to do about the language he said "just buy a phrase book, you'll be fine".

What a bunch of utter useless knackers they are.

<shudder> (I'm finishing my contract this week and have to start dealing with them on a day to day basis again) </shudder>

I think you have a touch of the old fashioned "protectionist" attitude about you. Something similar to the Trade Unions of old. What you are suggesting worries me. Who are you to decide what Fujitsu's business strategy should be?

I like your attitude towards agents though

**tim123** · 23 October 2006, 12:42

Originally posted by Buffoon

Unfortunately this not the case anymore. Once they realise that permies can’t hack it they will replace them all with an outsource provider.

They are an outsource provider.

tim

**SallyAnne** · 23 October 2006, 12:59

Originally posted by Forumbore

I think you have a touch of the old fashioned "protectionist" attitude about you. Something similar to the Trade Unions of old. What you are suggesting worries me. Who are you to decide what Fujitsu's business strategy should be?

I like your attitude towards agents though

How am I deciding what Fujitsu's business strategy's should be? Chill your pants Forumbore - If a company wants to say "we want to replace all of our contractors" then its perfectly acceptable for me to say "contractors should aviod taking a permie job working for them, as we'd be cutting our own throats". Whats your problem with that?

I do have somewhat of a protectionist attitude - but its all theoretical and idealistic. The fact that I'm a contractor should tell you that!

I have values and ideas - which I will occassionally voice on this forum. It doesn't mean I'd actually act on them - this place is more like a talking diary sometimes.
I'm a contractor, which makes me somewhat of a whore. Beliefs aside, I'd probably still work for them, if the money was right

)

**sasguru** · 23 October 2006, 13:00

Originally posted by SallyAnne

I'm a contractor, which makes me somewhat of a whore.

Any discounts for CUK members (so to speak)?

**Swamp Thing** · 23 October 2006, 13:02

Originally posted by SallyAnne

How am I deciding what Fujitsu's business strategy's should be? Chill your pants Forumbore - If a company wants to say "we want to replace all of our contractors" then its perfectly acceptable for me to say "contractors should aviod taking a permie job working for them, as we'd be cutting our own throats". Whats your problem with that?

I do have somewhat of a protectionist attitude - but its all theoretical and idealistic. The fact that I'm a contractor should tell you that!

I have values and ideas - which I will occassionally voice on this forum. It doesn't mean I'd actually act on them - this place is more like a talking diary sometimes.
I'm a contractor, which makes me somewhat of a whore. Beliefs aside, I'd probably still work for them, if the money was right

)

Oohh, get her!

How stupid are agents?!!!