Things I Hate about Contracting

[The Spartan]

Other contractors?

I have to agree as not all contractors are necessarily good or a credit to their profession

[MarillionFan]

I have to agree as not all contractors are necessarily good or a credit to their profession

Profession??? Pull the other one, it's got bells on.

[The Spartan]

Profession??? Pull the other one, it's got bells on.

Aren't contractors professional?

[MarillionFan]

Aren't contractors professional?

Chancers the bloody lot of 'em.



Dimprawn on the way to his contract.

[SussexSeagull]

Aren't contractors professional?

Well I suppose they expect to get paid*

*via their limited companies as they are not disguised employees at all, obviously.

[Scrag Meister]

3. Rate cuts.

And I used to think a contract was a binding agreement for the term.

Doh! How naive.

[norrahe]

You'd think in this recession they'd get their act together...

They never had it together in the first place

[norrahe]

I bloody well hope they don't.

You keen to work with them again

[Basil Fawlty]

Bank Holidays...

[pjclarke]

Grauniad

As I said, perhaps the inertia and blame culture is just characteristic of large organisations. But what gets me is that in banking everyone is making so much more than their peers elsewhere. I got a 50% pay rise for this job. What I do now requires some skill but I have done way more challenging things for much less pay. There's nothing cutting-edge going on, and the premium I get for working for a bank is hard to justify.

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