Doomed

[PAH]

don't dis all agents.

Nope, it's perfectly reasonable to dis all agents. As long as you only do it on here incognito!

Hence why few people have the desire for their real identity to be revealed, they can use this place to vent their frustrations.

So any agents reading, FOAD! We can all go direct then.

[conned tractor]

Its worse than the playground here.

Of course I don't spout off about my rate. Yep, I do think that agents are mainly slimeballs and I will continue to treat them like that. Sorry my choice.

I do take the call, yes on mobile, I see this as fine as environment is quite relaxed.

There are some angry people on here. Some people need to take a holiday, maybe christmas will help.

[jmo21]

Its worse than the playground here.

Of course I don't spout off about my rate. Yep, I do think that agents are mainly slimeballs and I will continue to treat them like that. Sorry my choice.

I do take the call, yes on mobile, I see this as fine as environment is quite relaxed.

There are some angry people on here. Some people need to take a holiday, maybe christmas will help.

just going by what you told us!

[zara_backdog]

There are some angry people on here. Some people need to take a holiday, maybe christmas will help.

Contractor - Holiday Does not compute!

[conned tractor]

I tend to see the holiday situation as an advantage and plan to take at least 5 or 6 weeks off, if project allows, and still earn more then twice than the permie.

On a side note, I have had a few wellwishers telling me that hopefully I might even get a permie role one day....like I want one, yeah right.

[PM-Junkie]

Its worse than the playground here.

Of course I don't spout off about my rate. Yep, I do think that agents are mainly slimeballs and I will continue to treat them like that. Sorry my choice.

I do take the call, yes on mobile, I see this as fine as environment is quite relaxed.

There are some angry people on here. Some people need to take a holiday, maybe christmas will help.

to quote what YOU said...

"Makes me cringe telling them on the phone my rate when the poor permies in earshot don't even get half of what I get"

If you think that is perfectly ok then I feel sorry for you. If you were working for me and did that, you wouldn't see out the day.

And I would suggest most people here are happy (with a couple of notable exceptions of course). However I do suspect people get a little hacked off with those who think it's funny to behave like a knob and give contractors a bad name.

But hey, maybe that's just me.

[conned tractor]

Of course I don't let on what rate i'm on. I'm sorry if MY mis-comment has in any way been detrimental to your existance. I should articulate exactly since it a "contractors" internet forum. However some the people I work with tend to know what rate i'm approximately on since its pretty much a standard level.

I apologise for being a knob - in your opinion. I will now reside to the sidelines. I just thought that feedback of current happenings in this field would be interesting to those in this field. There does seem to be a lot of contracts going out the door at the moment and some contracts created by current economic conditions. I'm glad I don't work for you - excel/powerpoint engineering would be my guess.

Merry christmas.

[gingerjedi]

...Makes me cringe telling them on the phone my rate when the poor permies in earshot don't even get half of what I get".

Did you or did you not type that? When you've got a few contracts under your belt and you've sussed out the contracting etiquette you will look back at this post and realise your boasting about doing personal stuff on billed time and blurting out your rate within earshot was a bit daft.

I suggest you leave it there before you dig yourself an even bigger hole.

[conned tractor]

sidelined

[ratewhore]

Of course I don't let on what rate i'm on. I'm sorry if MY mis-comment has in any way been detrimental to your existance. I should articulate exactly since it a "contractors" internet forum. However some the people I work with tend to know what rate i'm approximately on since its pretty much a standard level.

I apologise for being a knob - in your opinion. I will now reside to the sidelines. I just thought that feedback of current happenings in this field would be interesting to those in this field. There does seem to be a lot of contracts going out the door at the moment and some contracts created by current economic conditions. I'm glad I don't work for you - excel/powerpoint engineering would be my guess.

Merry christmas.

Ignore them, they're all winkers anyway!!

You have a bit of work to do though if you're only on double the permie rate