Hey RC. Is this the same gig you've been on since you finally quit the bench, that was quite a few months' work at least?
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Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishing -
Morning stranger!Comment
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostThat gives the board nine months in which to decide they'll buy some other bank, sell of some other bit, 'integrate' with someone else and set up some compliancy projects for new banking regulations. Might all turn out fine for contractors.
Isn't confusion just greatWhen freedom comes along, don't PISH in the water supply.....Comment
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Originally posted by TestMangler View PostOr for government regulators to decide that the bank they've created is too big and needs dis-integrated and sold off.
Isn't confusion just great
ING got about 30 billion in income support from the state in 2008 to keep it afloat and has now been forced to split off the insurance part (nationale nederlanden), so plenty of contracts in the splitting; however, rates are so tulipe at ING that good people aren't taking up the jobs, so now programme managers are getting uppity and hiring testers and coders in with weird job titles like 'Interim Integration Manager' to avoid the fixed rates in the preferred suppliler agreements.
And along comes Basel 3 and lots of new regulation from individual EU countries.
Now I don't really want to do banking again, but this is all good news as banks tend to swallow up a huge chunk of the market which cuts supply to other clientcos and ultimately raises rates.And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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Originally posted by TestMangler View PostThere isn't a Lloyds cull, despite what you've been reading.
Any cull at Lloyds won't happen until Q3 next year.
They're currently trying their best to get important contractors tied up well in to next year.
The cull will come at the END of integration, not in the middle of it.
LLOYDS Bank is to make 120 Bristol workers redundant in cuts in its IT department.
Admittedly no cull date is mentioned.Comment
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostYesterday's Bristol Evening Post front page headline:
LLOYDS Bank is to make 120 Bristol workers redundant in cuts in its IT department.
Admittedly no cull date is mentioned.
It is legacy IT system permmies, integration contractors, integration Bobs.
Can't happen until legacy systems are no longer required (i.e. post integration).
Papers and news made it sound as if they started shovelling people out the door yesterday. Not true.
Q3 next year I tells ya............When freedom comes along, don't PISH in the water supply.....Comment
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Originally posted by TestMangler View PostIt is legacy IT system permmies, integration contractors, integration Bobs.
Can't happen until legacy systems are no longer required (i.e. post integration).
Papers and news made it sound as if they started shovelling people out the door yesterday. Not true.
Q3 next year I tells ya............
Oh, and this applies to approximately half of their nearly 2500 systems.
Easy money.And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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Originally posted by RichardCranium View PostHow's the market? Do I need to worry the public sector is laying off thousands? And that the private sector is laying off thousands? And that records are being broken in unemployment? And that even JobStats seems to have died a death? Is it as doomy and gloomy out there as my empty jobs inbox appears?
Updated and uploaded my CV to everywhere to make the 'phone ring...
Re-activated all the automated 'ideal jobs' emails ...
Spoken to all my previous agents (those still in recruitment, anyway): ...
Contacted people via LinkedIn to see what is going on at previous ClientCos (those that still exist, anyway): ...
Checked my various sources for getting public sector gigs: ...
I see Jobserve has half the jobs it had a year ago. No wonder Jobstats has given up.
Oh tulip.My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.Comment
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I thought the market was quite good. Im just off to my new contract this morning, having taken one email and one interview to get it.
Must be my winning personality or niche market.What happens in General, stays in General.You know what they say about assumptions!Comment
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostI thought the market was quite good. Im just off to my new contract this morning, having taken one email and one interview to get it.
Must be my winning personality or niche market.My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.Comment
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