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Recent content by PerfectStorm
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Teams interview for local on-site contract
You find out what the role is after you've been doing it for 2 months, not in the interview or job description. Real contractors go all-in (and can connect to a Teams meeting)- PerfectStorm
- Post #17
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Companies House Suspends Web Filing
What penalties will Companies House suffer for leaking our data in this way? As with the Parasol/Nixon Williams hack, the response will be a strongly worded letter...- PerfectStorm
- Post #10
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Companies House Suspends Web Filing
Noticed when looking at mine that the 'Home Address' is my actual home and different from the 'Correspondence Address'. Seen some online guides suggesting making Home the same as Correspondence - wished I had...- PerfectStorm
- Post #7
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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QDOS IR35 insurance
I don't believe anyone ever has. That could be because the presence of lawyers scares such cases away. But they've never paid out.- PerfectStorm
- Post #19
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Fantasy Tax - What new tax would you invent?
As someone who occasionally works in the public sector, the problem isn't lack of funds... a new tax would simply find them more money to waste.- PerfectStorm
- Post #18
- Forum: General
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State of the Market
Getting the sense from the last couple of weeks of interest that "the truly hungry are getting fed" and that, for those who held out, the truly derisory rates are being brought back up to something compatible with 2025 (rather than 2015) living costs. Trying to put a spin on things - when you...- PerfectStorm
- Post #14,193
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Qdos data breach
Oh good, have needed another year of access to that since the one from the Parasol/Nixon Williams data leak ran out...- PerfectStorm
- Post #11
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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State of the Market
I suspect part of the problem isn't the Indian firms being stingy, but having themselves won the contract to supply the workforce based on a very low overall rate for the services. Of course, everyone could be happier and better paid if the clients recruited their own people, but finding a...- PerfectStorm
- Post #14,182
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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State of the Market
Infrastructure BA, £280/day Inside IR35 http://www.jobserve.com/diI4J- PerfectStorm
- Post #14,168
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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State of the Market
If there's anywhere that should have a bit more money to spend, it's an online casino- PerfectStorm
- Post #14,023
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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State of the Market
That's actually terrifying if that's how our immigration levels are being manipulated to levels that both the current and previous government don't seem to be able to do anything about.- PerfectStorm
- Post #14,006
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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State of the Market
Another public sector panel interview coming up. Get ready for it now... "Tell me about a time when..."- PerfectStorm
- Post #14,005
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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State of the Market
i’ve worked with a few Oxford and Cambridge types and they are the very definition of book smart over street smart. They can’t work on any project that hasn’t had a discovery report written or do anything without spending a year in change control. If a technical problem came up, they wouldn’t...- PerfectStorm
- Post #13,999
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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State of the Market
Translation: "We want somebody who not only talks complete BS, but believes it too!" I'd go crackers in one of these big consultancies. I guess some people are just more gullible than others.- PerfectStorm
- Post #13,996
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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State of the Market
They'll take you all the way up to fully customising your CV before you get ghosted.- PerfectStorm
- Post #13,995
- Forum: Business / Contracts
