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Hamas casualty figures as believable as a Jockeys tax return
ah yes. Andrew Fox. - published in the Spectator, The Sun, The Daily Telegraph, NY Post and the Tablet, amongst others. all owned or managed by rightwing media zionists. - + he's an ex para, a mantle of honesty integrity and wholly revered on the old sod (that's Eire if you're wondering)- barely_pointless
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State of the Market
https://www.jobserve.com/JobLanding.aspx?jid=F156A21627B66349FA- barely_pointless
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State of the Market
I think Brexit has shrunk the EU resource pool somewhat, I was seeing quite a few Spanish - Polish etc, now not so much- barely_pointless
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State of the Market
funny and a little arrogant , recruiter asked my why I was out of work from Nov to Jan - 3 months, I said ill and market was pretty quite, I then asked him how many placements he did in the same period...........:tumble:- barely_pointless
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State of the Market
SF devs use amongst others, Apex which is an object oriented - blah, blah, if you know C++ you'd take 5 Min to build a class (*the issue is the configuration components/integration in the SF ecosystem or lack of it you have to work with), used to be a b***th to integrate, they bought mule soft a...- barely_pointless
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State of the Market
I've done a few salesforce gigs as scrum master and product owner (domain ip = airlines, finance), I'm an ex full stack dev and the only thing that I like about salesforce is that multiple lazy IT/CIO's bring it in because they're incompetent, that said the marketing and pickup from lazy clients...- barely_pointless
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State of the Market
on first look, it appears they actually don't know what they want, I've just (a personal retro of sorts) gone back through all contacts I had for a role as a BusinessProcess consultant ( BA that draws boxes- whatever blah). from Dec 2023, 22 phone calls with agent, 1 interview late dec with...- barely_pointless
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Two contracts concurrently ?
me no burn de high grade weed man https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nMBml1iNvtk- barely_pointless
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Two contracts concurrently ?
sure , that's fair enough, but the brolly contract is all but a zero hours one - no work no pay - etc, if I get a new contract and I need to get the brolly to approve it and they can dictate yes or no, or at least as I said earlier -within a weeks notice - after all , the brolly is my...- barely_pointless
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Two contracts concurrently ?
Hola todos, many. thanks for the replies (@ladymuck - yeah, I did a search but not deep enough - but thx found lots). Seems brolly has a say on what I do, so looks like a no-go at least x2 inside, brolly won't need to know if I get an outside and overlap somewhat, which is basically the...- barely_pointless
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Two contracts concurrently ?
Market a little - well you know what I mean, but currently running a contract agile (set my own schedule etc) 100% remote with occasional journeys into office, day rate inside pretty rubbish, but still a lot better than bench. 2nd contract rate even more rubbish, but also inside, and also...- barely_pointless
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IR35 not clear yet
https://www.freelanceinformer.com/news/ir35/ir35-reforms-likely-to-be-reinstated-say-legal-experts/ Well, the legal experts (i.e. those who make money in disagreements) would day that, but further down the article is a quote: “HMRC can do this because the MSC regime focuses on whether the...- barely_pointless
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Anyone worked through these guys : IGTsolutions ?
IGT solutions https://www.igtsolutions.com. Looking at some work with these guys, any reports or comments , anyone worked through them before, no significant UK office, Indian Tech Shop - have worked for one or two of these before and had OK experience. Kind regards Barely- barely_pointless
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ROI Gig (100% remote) want to pay in Euros
I was ROI contract last year (for a very very vey big private US investment company that still uses Java8 and oracle and hundreds of lifer middle managers in Eire who haven't got a Clue about WFH or tech- but I digress). Transferwise is definitely useful, you can fast TFX using spot rates or...- barely_pointless
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Best way to contract in Ireland / Dublin
just finished a gig in the old sod last week, 9 months fintech, not bad, not great, but then again there's a global thing going on........... Key points, Remote, Irish Umbrella Director, paid in EU, Paid Irish Tax, no UK ltd involvement as it's just a mess normally, but now with...- barely_pointless
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