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    Skills shortage in IT?

    It's all about reducing costs for businesses who don't want to pay the rate or invest in training.
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    Would you encourage / discourage family or friends on a career in IT?

    There are a number of factors which make IT a less attractive place to start a career than it used to be. Outsourcing, onshoring, the rise of cloud based systems for example, the relentless drive by organisations to reduce costs, there are also a lot of systems which work so why change. That is...
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    Would you encourage / discourage family or friends on a career in IT?

    Very funny. I appreciate your support.
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    Would you encourage / discourage family or friends on a career in IT?

    Thanks for the compliment :laugh
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    Would you encourage / discourage family or friends on a career in IT?

    See how your pay compares India Salary Survey - India Wages - Average Salary in India | PayScale currently £1 = 103 Indian Rupee. Because the UKBA allows expenses to be treated as salary to get to the rate for the job to issue the visa, foreign service companies can onshore these bods at more...
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    Would you encourage / discourage family or friends on a career in IT?

    I wondered how many here shared the views from this survey Parents 'actively discourage' careers in IT - HR Grapevine
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    Would you encourage / discourage family or friends on a career in IT?

    Would you encourage / discourage family or friends on a career in IT?
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    Never selling an old PC on ebay again!

    As they used to say caveat emptor or in this case should it be caveat venditor? Maybe put this into the ebay dispute procedure and let the plonker justify why he should get a refund after monkeying about with it after collection.
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    Should school refuse boy leave for mum's wedding?

    I think the lesson here is to just lie & pull a sickie
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    Caption Competition Time

    Stupid ....
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    Rebecca Brooks ' not guilty' Andy Coulson 'Guilty'

    For F***sake doesn't plod have some real crime to go after?
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    How many Indians?

    Er no it is because they are cheap (IT Jobswatch) (PayScale) £1 = Rs 102 approx. They can also onshore workers through intra company transfers at about those home salary rates because the UKBA allows business expenses to be counted towards the 'salary package' rate for the job.
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    Canada gets to grip with undercutting by onshored intra-company transfer workers

    I'm sure they would like to try, unfortunately for them I don't care where the onshored workers come from and I'm not for imposing any sort of quota, if they genuinely need to be here fine but they shouldn't come here by undercutting resident workers. I just want business expenses excluded...
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    Canada gets to grip with undercutting by onshored intra-company transfer workers

    I'm not so sure. Using the governments own pay scale tables for migrant IT workers on a rate of £30,000 over £250m is lost because of the UKBA rules in treating business expenses as 'salary' for onshored workers to get to the rate required for the visa. As most of these bods are working on...
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    Canada gets to grip with undercutting by onshored intra-company transfer workers

    Someone in Canada appears to have woken up to what is going on and no pissing about with some 'review' to kick it into the long grass for 18 months as happens here in the UK when they want to avoid making any decision which requires a bit of backbone. In Canada this change is with immediate...
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