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Previously on "State of the Market"

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  • SchumiStars
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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyv7gxp02yo

    Seems quite a similar situation over here. Except $200k seems a bit better than the crap we get over here.

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  • SussexSeagull
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    Originally posted by SchumiStars View Post



    No idea what he was trying to achieve with that post, only reading what's been posted above TBF.

    Perhaps, the US are also encouraging immigration, seems to be a big money earner for the UK, so would expect the same in the US.

    Although I know little of how politics works. I just assumed that we were all effectively batteries quite similar the view portrayed by the The Matrix, whereby we are here to provide the government with as much cash as we can.

    I.e. Even the application process would attract fees.
    Read afterwards there Is something of a split between libertarians who want the best people brought into the country and nativists who want to pull up the drawbridge within the MAGA movement,

    With a few exceptions, namely the stupidly rich moving here, the only people who tend to financially gain from immigration are the actual immigrant and their family, which is fair enough as that is probably why they did it, and the companies who until recently only had to pay them 80% of the going rate. As we are seeing in IT and other white collar professions, the government lose a fortune in tax take and paying out in benefits when there isn't enough jobs to go round in a downturn.

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  • SchumiStars
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    Originally posted by SussexSeagull View Post

    He can't have the Penny and the Bun by backing America First then turning round and calling American workers lazy.
    No idea what he was trying to achieve with that post, only reading what's been posted above TBF.

    Perhaps, the US are also encouraging immigration, seems to be a big money earner for the UK, so would expect the same in the US.

    Although I know little of how politics works. I just assumed that we were all effectively batteries quite similar the view portrayed by the The Matrix, whereby we are here to provide the government with as much cash as we can.

    I.e. Even the application process would attract fees.

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  • SussexSeagull
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    Originally posted by Fraidycat View Post
    There was a big boxing day thread on X/Twitter.

    Musk posted about a massive skills shortage in IT.

    However he was using code words like shortage of 'Motivated workers', meaning he thinks US workers aren't as motivated as legal tech sector visa workers.

    By this he really meant US workers don't want to work for long hours for low end pay.

    But his MAGA fanbase turned on him for wanting to hire cheap Jeets (US terms for Bobs) while native US IT workers are struggling to find work.

    Others pointed out that if there is such as large shortage of talent then why were tech firms doing layoffs.

    Then Musk backtracked and said he was only talking about the shortage of top 0.1% of talent.

    A wake up call for Musk.
    He can't have the Penny and the Bun by backing America First then turning round and calling American workers lazy.

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  • Fraidycat
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    There was a big boxing day thread on X/Twitter.

    Musk posted about a massive skills shortage in IT.

    However he was using code words like shortage of 'Motivated workers', meaning he thinks US workers aren't as motivated as legal tech sector visa workers.

    By this he really meant US workers don't want to work for long hours for low end pay.

    But his MAGA fanbase turned on him for wanting to hire cheap Jeets (US terms for Bobs) while native US IT workers are struggling to find work.

    Others pointed out that if there is such as large shortage of talent then why were tech firms doing layoffs.

    Then Musk backtracked and said he was only talking about the shortage of top 0.1% of talent.

    A wake up call for Musk.
    Last edited by Fraidycat; 27 December 2024, 10:59.

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  • SussexSeagull
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    Originally posted by scarter1 View Post

    What jobs are you applying for, if you don't mind me asking?
    They approached me on LinkedIn but it is doing some Test Consultancy work.

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  • sadkingbilly
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    Hum Ba Bug

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  • SchumiStars
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    Merry Christmas.

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  • scarter1
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    Originally posted by SussexSeagull View Post
    Just had an interview for a very good rate.

    No idea if I will get it and wouldn't start until the new year regardless but goes to prove you should keep going during December.
    What jobs are you applying for, if you don't mind me asking?

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  • SussexSeagull
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    Just had an interview for a very good rate.

    No idea if I will get it and wouldn't start until the new year regardless but goes to prove you should keep going during December.

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  • oliverson
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    Originally posted by sadkingbilly View Post

    you don't even Live here do you? just another greedy self centered Tory.
    nothing to see here.......
    What do you mean I don't even live here? The UK is my main home. I spend 'some' time abroad each year if that's what you mean?

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  • oliverson
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    Originally posted by dsc View Post

    Objectively though the market has gone tougher overall, way less outside roles, the IR35 changes did the damage and other factors like interest rates / brexit etc. also played a part. Regardless of how good of a role you are in now and how lucky you were before, there's no denying currently the market is tulipe and will probably stay like this for a while.
    I'm not denying the market is currently dreadful, I even posted on some thread, probably this one, that it really doesn't matter if you're not the one on the bench.

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  • Snooky
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    Originally posted by Fraidycat View Post
    The tories were not able to clean up the mess made by New labour the 13 years before that
    So despite having 3 terms, the Tories weren't competent enough to get the country back on an even keel? Is that what you're telling us?

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  • Snooky
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    Originally posted by oliverson View Post

    Brexit! Jeez. Next you'll be saying Ukraine, Trump, blah, blah.

    The reality is there's no growth, no business confidence, no future while this government of utter incompetence are calling the shots. NONE.
    Spot on! Everything was just peachy before July, all those people who've now been on the bench 12 months were happily contracting and making loadsamoney.

    Oh.....hang on

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  • Snooky
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    Originally posted by pjt View Post
    Maybe due to doing more than less more often the times I get away with less never really get mentioned.
    I've reads this sentence 3 times and I still don't understand it

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