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On last night's Apprentice, I think his phrase was "make it for a penny and sell it for a pound". So an insightful confession from the horses mouth; I made my millions by screwing you lot. At £2.50 for a manky lollipop, no wonder.
makes our 20% margins look a bit paltry. You miserable lot are always moaning about agency margins, just think of how exploited those poor lollipops must feel.
Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone
Yeah that factory making 75% markups, from their free factory and free workforce, not to mention the free loans, plant hire, and overdraft.
75% pure profit
I remember the good old days of this site when people used to moan about serious contractor related issues like house prices and immigration. How times have changed!?
makes our 20% margins look a bit paltry. You miserable lot are always moaning about agency margins, just think of how exploited those poor lollipops must feel.
Agent's are naturally evil exploiters. If it wasn't for public health legislation, you lot would sell your own sh1t for a price.
makes our 20% margins look a bit paltry. You miserable lot are always moaning about agency margins, just think of how exploited those poor lollipops must feel.
I forgot to add
AND lollipops are a darn site more useful than contractors.
Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone
makes our 20% margins look a bit paltry. You miserable lot are always moaning about agency margins, just think of how exploited those poor lollipops must feel.
You cannot equate contractors with lolipops
contractors are suckers , lolipops are suckees
I think
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I liked the bit with the guy who sold them the sticks. They only come in boxes of 1000, and no splitting or discounts. He came over as a ******, but he is on a nice little earner. Only one lolly stick supplier in London.
Rule Number 1 - Assuming that you have a valid contract in place always try to get your poo onto your timesheet, provided that the timesheet is valid for your current contract and covers the period of time that you are billing for.
I noticed they thrust sweets into the kids' hands - they asked the parents to pay. One protested in was unfair. If they tried that on me, I'd have shoved the sweets where the sun doesn't shine...
This happened to us years ago on holiday in Lanzarote. One of the beach sellers came up to us and gave our daughter a small toy (some sort of rattle). She was about 18 months at the time and thought it was great. He then came over to me and asked for money - about £5. I told him, he gave it to my daughter as a gift before asking for money so if he wants it back he can take it off her, but if he upsets her, he will pay the consequences. He did attempt to take it, but she started crying so I stepped towards him. He then offered to let her keep it and left quickly.
Why do you lot always think that if someone makes a profit they are ripping someone off - as I said before - everyone has a choice to pay a price for something and at the end of the day something is only worth what someone is prepared to pay for it.
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