Those Knutford jobs

[Clippy]

If you can't get that rate, what do you do? Forget the pension, there's a mortgage to pay. Is this what forces us to get a Plan B? What's a good Plan B in the present climate, for someone with a lifetime's experience in IT?

Whatever it is, I'm more and more convinced it is not in IT.

[wurzel]

are asking for experienced people for rates of 180GBPs per day!

What's going on over there??

(Although I think I can guess... )

Never heard of 'em. The only Knutsford I know of is a service station on the M6 where I was forever getiing stranded whilst hitchhiking.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

Never heard of 'em. The only Knutsford I know of is a service station on the M6 where I was forever getiing stranded whilst hitchhiking.

Used to dread getting off one lift there, you'd always be stuck for hours. That and Forton. But Knutsford was so bad that even girls would get stuck there.

That was in the early 1970s, so I guss it hasn't changed much?

[wurzel]

Used to dread getting off one lift there, you'd always be stuck for hours. That and Forton. But Knutsford was so bad that even girls would get stuck there.

That was in the early 1970s, so I guss it hasn't changed much?

I used to do it in the late 80's - don't know what it's like now. Don't really see hitchers anymore.

The worst place of all IMO was Scotch Corner, especially while heading north.

[BlackenedBiker]

BB, last year I was on a similar rate to that - you were boasting that you were on £500 a day and that I must be a tea boy. I warned you to expect a significant readjustment come renewal time did I not?

Now I don't want to say I told you so, but I told you so.

And I am still on a £500 a day rate (ish) taken a 10% drop but doing the odd extra hour and I work from home on a friday.

Sorry if I called you a tea boy that was very rude of me.

Seriously I can't work and pay all of my pension/savings below £250. I really might as well get a permie job at that rate.

[cojak]

Im gobsmacked you're surprised. Back in 2001 downturn, Barcrap were one of the first to introduce a pocket hitting 'take it or leave' 20% rate cut and no negotiation.

Where I worked on site in Babbage, one permie barcrap manager was actually laughing down the phone as he said to his colleague 'you should see the look on the contractors faces!'

The twats at Barcrap didnt even have the decency to tell us about the take it or leave offer and instead bravely posted it on their intranet, probably in the hope no one would notice.

Needless to say I eventually told them to **** off and they are now on my black list of clients to never work for again.

180 pd does not surprise me one jot.

I've never looked at them for work in the past, so didn't know. These jobs are popping up in my alerts.

I thought they were just in much-cheapness mode, I didn't know that they're (in)famous for it...

[OwlHoot]

What's to stop an IT contractor with their own company applying for a couple of foreign contractor permits, or whatever these are called, to hire some plumbers, if they could prove that no British plumbers would accept the work at the rate offered?

Seriously, if someone could set this up it might be reported in the press and show up these large companies hiring Indian contractors on cheap rates.

[BlackenedBiker]

What's to stop an IT contractor with their own company applying for a couple of foreign contractor permits, or whatever these are called, to hire some plumbers, if they could prove that no British plumbers would accept the work at the rate offered?

Seriously, if someone could set this up it might be reported in the press and show up these large companies hiring Indian contractors on cheap rates.

on you go then

[Sysman]

The worst place of all IMO was Scotch Corner, especially while heading north.

I got stuck there once, heading north, and it was getting a bit late. Fortunately a bus to Darlington(?) hove into view and I took the train from there.

[wurzel]

I got stuck there once, heading north, and it was getting a bit late. Fortunately a bus to Darlington(?) hove into view and I took the train from there.

Did exactly the same thing, though after a cold night in a horse box by the side of the A1