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Recent content by Asterix
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Best time to look for work
Depends on... Depends on... ...whether you are looking for 'permanent' or 'contract' work. For the first one, you sound like an expert. For the second though, beware ! Generally speaking the short-term (3/6 m) contract market is seasonal with peaks between Apr-Jun and troughs Oct-Dec. Again... -
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Longest time with the same client
Another hijacked thread... Another hijacked thread... Back to the question : 12 months is my longest. I really don't bother after that. When I took up contracting some 10 years ago my intention was to accumulate as much knowledge and experience of different systems as possible. Also chasing a... -
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Paid too much!
Not a crime Not a crime It should be left in the account it was credited. It's not a crime as there is no fraudulent trail, just a simple error like an agency overpaying a contractor. If the money stays in the account and they don't ask for it back, it's legally yours. If the money is taken...- Asterix
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- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Quick Cheap Loans
Correct me if I'm wrong... Correct me if I'm wrong... Am I the only one that can't spot the bleeting obvious here? MF has got some spare stock of gifts etc and he wants to get rid of it, right. He's not prepared to flog it wholesale or set up an internet point of sale but instead he's prepared... -
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Help! From perm to contractor - what are the tax issues?
Amazing... Amazing... ... how can anyone 'buy' this sort of offer. Obviously not researched or done any homework, typical permie attitude, now 'help me pls'. But it's too late !!- Asterix
- Post #6
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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Boiler room scams
Greed is good ? Greed is good ? Yet they flood the papers' financial pages with their sad stories. Same as the Nigerian scams. Preying on people's naivety and GREED. -
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Life and Critical illness insurance
Critical/Life Critical/Life Go for a fixed term AND fixed premium if you can. Combine life assurance with critical life so that you get eg £ 50k critical (upon diagnosis) and £ 100k if you snuff it (OK, you won't live to see it). Avoid the banks like the plague, go for small/specialist... -
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Oh Dear : Aviva to offshore thousands of jobs
Funny, as in strange Funny, as in strange What would make people less cynical about the off-shoring business is that they don't see any of the benefits that the potential savings from outsourcing should bring (assuming that there any). So if Aviva/NU would turn round and say 'We've made so... -
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Inflation up again.
Don't get me started Don't get me started It's that old chestnut again. We've said that most of the inflation is now the result of gov't incompetence and waste of the public sector, like council tax increases, tuition fees, overtaxed petrol, etc. Get rid of this Gov't and inflation will come... -
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Getting into Investment Banking
Guy sounds like a child... Guy sounds like a child... ... The other children won't let me play with them, boo-hoo-hoo. The most stupid question anyone can ask is : 'They want jobs with experience, but how can you get any without working?' Is it hard to work out ? They don't want novices! There...- Asterix
- Post #25
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Minimum wage
Min = Max Min = Max I think you'll find also that the min wage is also the norm or maximum one. If left to the employer, I agree that the average would be a lot less but the best people would have got what they deserved, ie more. Now they are hampered by the egalitarian principle. Not... -
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Suspended term for blind driver
Blind Iraqi (asylum-seeker ?) Blind Iraqi (asylum-seeker ?) He should have claimed that he didn't know the law just 'cos he couldn't read it! Or mentioned that it was in the film 'Scent of a Woman' and so it was OK! Or it was compliant with Sharia law! etc etc etc the mind boggles.
