Most useless pimp award?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Just had an email from a pimp who has obviously just spammed his whole contact list.

He has "helpfully" attached a guide to the new IR35 rules due to take effect from April

Then he asks if I am interested in remote contract work?

Er, yes - that is what I do.

[northernladuk]

I can top that. Had an invite this morning from some spotty youth specialising in Mechanical Design recruitment (I'm service transition and design) followed up with a message to get in touch as he has roles that are a perfect fit for me.

[Mordac]

Get used to it. Thousands of the useless feckers are now wfh unsupervised. There will be many dark days ahead, folks...

[abz2020]

I can top that. Had an invite this morning from some spotty youth specialising in Mechanical Design recruitment (I'm service transition and design) followed up with a message to get in touch as he has roles that are a perfect fit for me.

Design in both descriptions - you are a match. Simples.

[Mordac]

Design in both descriptions - you are a match. Simples.

This is General. If you choose to come unarmed, that's your call. Just saying...

[ladymuck]

I once mentioned on my CV working on a Windows rollout and got a call asking if I'd be interested in working for a glaziers

[psychocandy]

Yeh one guy must have emailed me about 10 times about a role as a "water treatment engineer" or something. Yeh I worked in IT for one of the water companies in the past.

Even though I replied and told him about 5 times that I didnt do that I still used to get the same email from him.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Yeh one guy must have emailed me about 10 times about a role as a "water treatment engineer" or something. Yeh I worked in IT for one of the water companies in the past.

Even though I replied and told him about 5 times that I didnt do that I still used to get the same email from him.

I wonder if he was the same idiot who endlessly sent me mechanical CAD jobs despite being informed repeatedly that the only CAD I did was PCBs.

He went away eventually, either that or he used the NTLhell email address that I dumped.

[malvolio]

Apart from the one that thought that since I had worked for Sun Microsystems I was an expert on Sun Accounts, my favourite was the one that told me I wasn't experienced enough to be a Transition Manager despite the CV being full of Service Management gigs including two TM roles. I looked him up on LinkedIn (always good for a laugh) and found that up to five months previously he had been selling sporting goods, his first job after leaving school...

As long as agencies use juniors to deal with our side of the process, such idiots will always be with us. Just sigh deeply and move on.

[Mordac]

Yeh one guy must have emailed me about 10 times about a role as a "water treatment engineer" or something. Yeh I worked in IT for one of the water companies in the past.

Even though I replied and told him about 5 times that I didnt do that I still used to get the same email from him.

I worked on a 'tech refresh' project for Railtrack 20 years ago and I still get asked about working on rail engineering projects to this day, mostly from the same few agencies. I imagine they will go through the roof when HS2 starts in earnest...