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Was there someone in this thread looking for a VB6 Dev role?

Just spotted one on jobserve, outside IR35.

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I read somewhere that a flag made of fabric on a flagpole looks quite noble (okay not all of them, ref Germany 1930s), but a load of them on every lamp post just looks like a massive council estate.

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Could be IBM.

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Our Interview process:

* 30 minute call with one of our Talent Acquisition Team
* 1 hour competency based interview
* Take home task & review
* 60 minute values led interview.



And this was for a contract role.

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I went from petrol to electric for my hedge trimmer but it just wouldn't cut clean so I went back to petrol, like a knife through butter.

One thing I did find out was the ethanol in petrol can corrode the pipes over time in 2/4 stroke garden machines but then I found out about Aspen fuels....

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This figures.

Permy role: we want you to be a "company" person, far more than doing the job.

Contractor: we just want you to get the job done.


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Oh no, I will have to see my rolex!*



* don't own one, just a garmin 255, Victorinox one for posh meals out and an £80 mechanical one off of eBay that I am trying to get a yootoober to film repairing it. Cos reasons.

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This.


Life is too short to be dealing with dickheads.

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Seeing the fashion for FTCs, I am probably approx 3-4 months from closing the ltd, but then what? Applied for permy roles but they are like pulling my own teeth.

2 interviews and one of those bulltulip psychometric test (never done one before), then in final int they say this question around...

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FTC's for five and six month contracts, WTF? I don't recall seeing that before.


Fooking dead as a dead thing out there.


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Flegs!



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There's an ex biker guy (local handyman, built my bbq) who lives opposite me who for years hung a pirate flag, poppy one in November but recently he has put up union flag and St George one. He's normally okay but a few months back he put up a 'Free Tommy Robinson Now' banner just down the road, so I...

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No, posting a gig on jobserve for a few days that you could do in your sleep, is outside, 6M fully remote, decent rate then it disappears.

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If I am facing direction of train, the tilting bit doesn't bother me, but if it is the 'wrong direction'...


I scarred myself with coach travel when I was 17 and went to Lloret de Mar to visit my sister, 24 hours on a coach, London to Catalunya, you do daft tulip when you are...