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edison
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Last Activity: 10 November 2024, 10:09
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  • Exactly this.

    Most IT departments will do a regular review of headcount and the balance of perm/contractors. I was on the leadership team at one organisation that reviewed the list of contractors every quarter and each contractor had to be justified by their respective team head otherwise...
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  • edison
    replied to Blam and dast...
    Read some of the OP's experience earlier in the thread - that's given me the kick I needed to actually use the bowel cancer screening kit I was sent about six weeks ago that has sat in a drawer.
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  • edison
    replied to CUK Theatre Club - just seen/going to see
    Had to visit Basel several times during my first ever contract in 2011. I remember how expensive everything was - the equivalent of a then £3 Tesco meal deal was about £14. How expensive was a theatre ticket?...
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  • edison
    replied to CUK Theatre Club - just seen/going to see
    I don't go to the theatre that often but saw The Mousetrap in August. Whilst the acting was a bit OTT/hammy, it was just one of those shows I've always wanted to see, even if it is probably more a London tourist thing.

    Took my teenage son to see the Back to The Future musical. It's one...
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  • edison
    replied to Horrors of their first budget.
    Japan was heavily geared towards manufacturing and particularly exporting in the 70s and 80s. It seems to have finally shifted more towards services as China started to dominate a lot of manufacturing. Will be interesting to see how Japan fares in the next 10-20 years as the proportion of elderly people...
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  • edison
    replied to Freeagent question
    The mobile app is useful although I tend to use the desktop version more on a large screen.

    I don't get any Monday emails - there must be a simple way of turning notification emails off, no?

    I don't know what other alternatives there are but for my contractor needs it seems...
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  • edison
    replied to State of the Market
    This is one of the main reasons why salaries are often omitted from job ads along with the company doesn't want some of the team to realise they are being paid significantly less than the others....
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  • edison
    replied to State of the Market
    Suddenly got a few calls out of the blue from agents, two with specific opportunities, one contract, one fractional. Unfortunately timing was bad as I'm in a gig but will be looking again come the new year. But hopefully it shows the market not's completely dead.

    Current client has been...
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  • I've had a dozen gigs over the years and chanced my arm once at renewal time and got a 5% rate rise.

    It wasn't much but I had a feeling the agent was already taking a decent cut and neither they or the client batted an eyelid. Today's market is very different, you'd have to be brave/confident...
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  • edison
    replied to State of the Market
    Yes, I saw someone I'm connected to who had over 100,000 Linkedin followers say they had lost several thousand in one go.

    I checked my own account today and I lost about 2% of my followers. Apparently it's not just dormant or suspected bot accounts, people have said connections they know...
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  • edison
    replied to Catching a ride from space
    I don't know if sending asylum seekers to Mars rather than Rwanda would work out cheaper.

    At the very least, I'd hope there was no British involvement in building any Mars infrastructure as we can't even build an airport runway or a train line on earth. Might have to send some Bulgarian...
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  • edison
    replied to But he's GERMAN
    As an aside, curiously CUK is one of the few forums I've ever used that doesn't seem to have any significant discussion about football, or even sport...

    The England cricket team currently has a New Zealander as coach. Since the late 90s, four of the eight test coaches have been foreign...
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  • edison
    replied to Catching a ride from space
    I dislike Musk but can only marvel at the technical engineering feats with SpaceX. I have a cousin who works as an engineer on the Starship at SpaceX and it sounds amazing.

    On the other hand, I think trying to establish a colony on Mars seems a folly at this point in human evolution....
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  • edison
    replied to State of the Market
    After August's base rate cut, maybe we might get another 0.25% cut this year which at least might show the interest rate cycle is starting to trend downwards.

    However, in the grand scheme of things, the budget in two weeks should give us much more of an idea if things might take a turn...
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