Bob Job Agents

[stek]

Which agencies? are the agents indian agencies?

Damco, BrightPurple and Avance are three that spring to mind - ludicrously high skill requirements with ludicrously low rates!

[MyUserName]

Another time one of our alpha geeks was heading a project with a team of bobs (against his will).

There was some kind of processing going on which the bob team simply could not get nailed down. They suggested two linked lists of data, a before and after one, along with another linked list which monitored the relationship between the other lists as things were added, deleted etc. Our guy bounced the idea because it was 'ruddy stupid' as the data was coming in in the same format as it was going out so he wanted them to suggest using the same datastructure as the input and outputted one rather than create new sets of lists.

That night he gave his daughter a simplified version of the problem and she gave him her, admittedly simplified, solution. She, at the age of 8, spotted that you could cache previous calculations rather than redoing them. The bob team did not think of this.

In the next day's conferance call our guy lost his temper and starting shouting that his 8 year old daughter had made more progress in one evening than they had in a week and explained the engineering principle she had grasped out of thin air which they were unable to understand. Our manager cut the call before he shouted himself out of a job.

Result - he was given a team of one person to run and that one person was himself, he then worked happily afterwards.

[gibbsville]

its a scam esp damco they have no intention in offering you a bona fide job as someone has said here before that part of the tier 1 fiasco the client has to sometimes produce evidence that the skill cannot be resourced from the free EU market we all know most of the time it can just not for a stack of chapattis per day

its a scam i tell ya and any damco bob that calls me gets the red button treatment instantly

[gibbsville]

"a bona fide job " of course i mean contract doings

[Mich the Tester]

What's the hindi for "feck orff"?

By the miracle of google, no 'feck orff' but a cornucopia of nasty things to say to Bob.

<Mod snip: I think that tips this thread just over the limit, dont you>

[KentPhilip]

Damco, BrightPurple and Avance are three that spring to mind - ludicrously high skill requirements with ludicrously low rates!

And they sound genuinely upset and bemused when you tell them you won't get out of bed for double that rate.

[Jaws]

Bob once gave us a clever solution to an issue where a report was giving an error.
He deleted the line which outputted the error and then tried to sign the bug off.

I have seen similar before... Problem: error raised when saving record to database. Solution: comment out line that saves record.

[stek]

its a scam esp damco they have no intention in offering you a bona fide job as someone has said here before that part of the tier 1 fiasco the client has to sometimes produce evidence that the skill cannot be resourced from the free EU market we all know most of the time it can just not for a stack of chapattis per day

its a scam i tell ya and any damco bob that calls me gets the red button treatment instantly

To be fair Damco at one time where looking for 21 SC cleared AIX virtualisation gurus for £120/day, that can't be Bobbed/ICT'd.

Lying Bob Agent said he'd already got 15 people, I doubt there are that many SC'd AIX/PowerVM doods in the contracting market, we almost all know each other and none of us would go near that rate with a shiity stick.

£120/day, allegedly in Ipswich, I guessed at BT, if role was true they must have filled it with Linux chancers.....

[gibbsville]

From what i have seen of damco theres seems to be lots of fiction and not much fact but yeah your right regarding SC and bob's but i dont even think these guys are based in uk so not sure if they could even supply sc staff whether or not they have a uk companys house number etc in fact i could only find the following name under damco

DAMCO IMPORT AND EXPORT LIMITED
Company No. 07954058

but i dont think its the same bunch as they go under the banner of damco solutions so as i said previously they are a scam operator

[DodgyAgent]

Damco, BrightPurple and Avance are three that spring to mind - ludicrously high skill requirements with ludicrously low rates!

If you look at the employees of Avance on Linkedin they are all immigrants that do not seem to meet any criteria either to justify ICTs or as "scarce skills"