Life on the Bench - An unemployed contractors story

[css_jay99]

Is it a man bag?

thats a give away. who will suspect vodka is a 500ml bottle of sprite/ 7up. You'l be amazed at

It reminds me of the good old days as a permie when a trip to the pub on thursday & friday lunch time means a lot of empty desks for the rest of the day. my car spent more time in company carpark than at home

Its somebody who extends, tweaks, and (more often than not) fixes, Oracle Applications.

Oracle have many Aplications which they sell "out of the box". They always need modifying to fit the clients personal needs.

A mate of mine told me that they employeed a contractor who claimed to be an apps developer and it turns out the dude has never got close to Apps in his life but survived with his 8yrs of pl/sql & forms knowledge. The dude has been on £550 per day for the last 1 yr !

maybe I should follow the same route and take my chances as well !

[sappatz]

contractor

for 550 quid does she suck and swallow ?

[Sockpuppet]

for 550 quid does she suck and swallow ?

thats just not funny

[SallyAnne]

A mate of mine told me that they employeed a contractor who claimed to be an apps developer and it turns out the dude has never got close to Apps in his life but survived with his 8yrs of pl/sql & forms knowledge. The dude has been on £550 per day for the last 1 yr !

maybe I should follow the same route and take my chances as well !

I find that hard to believe to be honest. There isn't normally that much forms work in Oracle Apps jobs, and you dont need to do much pl/sql either - just bits here and there.

Although saying that, £550 a day for the last year doing not much....must be an EDS government gig, probably MOD, so yes I believe you. I spent 2 months there on £550 a day and didn't even so much as open up Word!! Seriously, not a scrap of work.

[BlasterBates]

Inclusive or exclusive VAT...

[css_jay99]

I find that hard to believe to be honest. There isn't normally that much forms work in Oracle Apps jobs, and you dont need to do much pl/sql either - just bits here and there.

Although saying that, £550 a day for the last year doing not much....must be an EDS government gig, probably MOD, so yes I believe you. I spent 2 months there on £550 a day and didn't even so much as open up Word!! Seriously, not a scrap of work.

Yes you are right, its one of those MOD jobs. And As I here it there are a few more opportunities comming up to the south west of UK and companies are luring contractors to new projects. They did more pl/sql than forms, moving data from old system into Apps. A few forms interfaces that is not part of Apps, but basically as i heared it, he told me to apply that i wont have probs getting in but at that time i was concentrating more on my datawarehouse skills as well as working for investment banks.

i should have gone for the money !.

for 550 quid does she suck and swallow ?

that'll probably cost twice as much.

trust me this dudez earn a consistent wack for doing jack tulip. sorry to offend App developers here, but its the truth.

I would think that the ones doing real work are the ones that interface other systems into oracle Apps hence more of a backend job. Now that I would like instead of bloody clicking buttons


css_jay99

[aj1977]

Me, you and EO could form our own one stop Oracle shop!! (He's a DBA)

Include me as well pls.Iam an Oracle Apps Technical consultant with 7 years of permant work with Oracle COrporation,now gone contracting and desperately looking for that elusive first contract

[Euro-commuter]

Are there any bank tellers any more? Went to my local town centre HSBC (large branch) last week and there was a note stuck on the door saying that "in order to rationalise and enhance our customers' experience of HSBC, counter service is no longer available in this branch. Please use the machines in the lobby." The fecking paying in machine then chewed up a cheque from HMRC and it will probably take 6 months to get them to issue another one.

In fact the only member of staff in the branch was a pension/mortgage salesman.

Are you still with that bank? If so, they got away with it.

[Euro-commuter]

For those who still dont know, I'm an Oracle Applications Developer - £550 + vat is te going rate for me's.

ITJobsWatch says:

Oracle Applications Developer £377

Are you in an especially high-earning area then? I am but I can never seem to make even what ITJobsWatch says is the average for my skills.

Or maybe I'm just not asking enough....

[SallyAnne]

ITJobsWatch says:

Oracle Applications Developer £377

Are you in an especially high-earning area then? I am but I can never seem to make even what ITJobsWatch says is the average for my skills.

Or maybe I'm just not asking enough....

It depends what application obviously, and what skill set you have. Obviously going with government clients (like I do) pays slightly more aswell.

I think Financials developers get ripped off - they always seem to be quite low paid for some reason.

I'm HRMS/Payroll and I guess they tend to get me in when things have gone a bit tits up and they start fretting that people aren't going to get paid!

All that said, I've noticed lately that the rates quoted on jobserve and the like are dropping quite dramatically Probably time for a change in technology soon.