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  • uk contractor
    replied to State of the Market
    Yep not just IT that sneaky deal our useless PM signed with the Indian PM recently just solidified the blatant onshoring & replacement of UK born workers in all industries....Asda is the same as Primark non indian staff wise as are many of the high street now if anything its accelerating and I could...
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  • uk contractor
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    All those companies you mention are on the indian outsourcing train they all have 1st class tickets in avoiding employing anyone outside of the outsourcer resource pool (I avoided using the word talent pool for obvious reasons as it does not take much talent to sit in a packed room using google search...
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  • Yep it not you or me or most people on here way of doing things as we are highly professional but I have learnt so many deadwood resource in IT projects just existing doing barely enough to survive & not willing to say when things are going wrong...last IB I worked at was full of twats like that...they...
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  • If possible torpedo the project as in let it fail but ensure your not sitting in the line of fire for the blowback!

    It will probably not change much as cost seems to be everything right now but fun to watch it implode!
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  • uk contractor
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    Speak to the indian outsourcers mate they will have a finger or 2 in all pies by now you will not even get a sniff of the work UNLESS someone paying the bills at the end clients insists on a PROPER contractor not some boot camp crammer sitting in a room remotely full of other boot camp crammers using...
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  • uk contractor
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    10 SC someone mentioned on here a few posts ago at Canary Wharf....... that's where HMRC have been for a number of years now LOL close to the action so they can count all their ill gotten gains from ordinary hard working people (and a few IT contractors I guess fall under that description !!)...
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  • uk contractor
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    Nothing to stop TFL hiring 60 people born in the UK you know support our workers instead! They even have their own Treasury Trade Floor in victoria not a lot of people know that not even michael caine !!...
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  • uk contractor
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    HSBC are staying in Canary Wharf & expanding there so they will need a few decent contractors in time to come as I hear its not great there IT wise......!
    HSBC reaffirms commitment to Canary Wharf with new lease at 40 Bank Street - 08.08.25 - Canary Wharf Group
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  • uk contractor
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    Been like that for ages the actual work is still around but you will never see so much as a sniff of it as 99.9% is left to the indian outsourcers who now dominate & control the entire market. Only time you will see a contract in London is when the Front Office business management people paying...
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  • uk contractor
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    Its not just IT jobs which are scarce.....Many of the IB's I used to work at are dumping MD's & other expensive front office staff like its going out of fashion! The sea change is rapid I think the entire job industry is constantly changing & evolving but no-one really knows where its heading...
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  • uk contractor
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    This underhand business practice is going on everywhere now our useless PM empowered them with his new visa deal signed with PM Modi. Anyone in the UK who was born here is doomed & will have little chance of ever buying their own home & paying a large mortgage back as job security simply no...
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  • uk contractor
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    Those 9 recruitment firms are ALL HCL satellite companies I am 100% certain of that...if you could get to the murky bottom of their accounts you will find its somehow part of the now vast HCL empire which is a big part of undercutting UK IT resource!!

    They have their gruby little fingers...
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  • uk contractor
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    Any use to anyone not for me!

    Contract Opportunity-FO Application Support Engineer!!!


    I hope this message finds you well.

    My client is seeking an Application Support Engineer with a broad skillset to support a range of technology within their stack.
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  • uk contractor
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    If your absolutely desperate for work & have bills to pay & mouths to feed then there are a number of Windows 11 + Co-Pilot Trade Floor migration projects going on right now via linkedin where you will be sub sub contracted as the end client refuses to accept the 1st sub BS nonsense of we can...
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