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    Originally posted by Peoplesoft bloke View Post
    So your point is what exactly? It's Ok for immoral organisations to abuse thick/unlucky people because, er ...they do?
    I was responding to Seagull's point suggesting that everyone was responsible for their own career, as I indicated some people don't have 'a career' they do a job and are glad to have one. (hint 'abused' was a clue to my feelings in the matter).

    Now whether they should develop a career strategy and devote their down time to studying etc the fact is the majority of people earn under the average wage (yes this is one case where an average is an aspiration for most) and will continue to do so, they have low job security and almost no financial buffers.

    statistics show a good portion of people would run out of money in 18 days and have little or no higher education. These are the ones that these large multinationals prey on.

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      Originally posted by Peoplesoft bloke View Post
      So your point is what exactly? It's Ok for immoral organisations to abuse thick/unlucky people because, er ...they do?
      I do it all the time
      Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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        Originally posted by Peoplesoft bloke View Post
        So your point is what exactly? It's Ok for immoral organisations to abuse thick/unlucky people because, er ...they do?
        Who are these "thick/unlucky people?"

        Most people in this position are there by choice, the rest are unlucky because they are disabled and the real unlucky ones are those who have been handed out a dire education courtesy of the socialist run education institutions.
        Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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          Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
          the real unlucky ones are those who have been handed out a dire education courtesy of the socialist run education institutions.
          So because they've already been shafted by one lot, they should be shafted by another?

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            Originally posted by Bunk View Post
            So because they've already been shafted by one lot, they should be shafted by another?
            Life's a bitch.

            What would you do to help them then einstein?
            Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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              Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
              handed out a dire education courtesy of the socialist run education institutions.
              Those Reds eh? What are they like? You would never have had this situation back in the glory days of Conservatism. Between 1979 and 1997 Education standards in this country soared, with the happy consequence of no-one being unemployable at all.

              Oh wait......
              I'd give my right dick to be normal.....

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                Originally posted by Runs With Scissors View Post
                Those Reds eh? What are they like? You would never have had this situation back in the glory days of Conservatism. Between 1979 and 1997 Education standards in this country soared, with the happy consequence of no-one being unemployable at all.

                Oh wait......
                Who needs a job when you can remortgage your right to buy council house?
                While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'

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                  Originally posted by Bunk View Post
                  So because they've already been shafted by one lot, they should be shafted by another?
                  Isn't that what contracting is about? You get shafted by one agent, then another, then another.....

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                    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
                    Isn't that what contracting is about? You get shafted by one agent, then another, then another.....
                    yes but you are 'reassuringly expensive' not on below minimum wage.

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                      Originally posted by vetran View Post
                      yes but you are 'reassuringly expensive' not on below minimum wage.
                      I was one once. when DA was my agent.....

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