Agencies

[DodgyAgent]

It helps to understand the mind of an agent to use this analogy in the IT services marketplace.


Client - supermarket chain
Agent - Meat wholesaler / slaughterhouse
Contractor - Cattle

HTH

sheep

[NotAllThere]

ewe baaaahstard

[engineer]

Scenario - Agencies, ... I get annoyed with false promises as you can tell. Monday rant over with!

(reply to comlpete paragraph of OP) :

Typical behaviuor of either agent or customer. They sort you into the queue and try find somebody cheaper oder better skilled. I always work with a 2-day timeout: If I have no "yes" i consider the project to be lost. Saves time.

Beofer doing so, there has never been a project coming real, where there was more than 2 days silence.

The current project had benn nogitiated within less than 30 hours starting from the first mail and a PDf-contract.

[Churchill]

'Mobile Phone Walk' - The Sales guys who cannot stand still when talking on their mobile - They constantly have to pace backwards and forwards - gesticulating,

If you knew anything about psychology, you'd understand that this is a good thing.

Hth.

[NickFitz]

If you knew anything about psychology, you'd understand that this is a good thing.

Hth.

If you'd been in the same room trying to work, you'd know it's only good for them

[RichardCranium]

If you knew anything about psychology, you'd understand that this is a good thing.

You get people on train concourses doing it. Gits.

Depending on my mood, I used to make a point of either walking into them, kicking them in the ankle or just hitting them with my briefcase at Euston each evening.

Cheered me up no end.

[Solent]

If you knew anything about psychology, you'd understand that this is a good thing

Intrigued, why a good thing? Maybe a good thing for them, but bl**dy inconsiderate to the rest of us