Reply to: 3 Week Christmas / NY Contractor Freeze

[radish2008]

Doesn't that apply to most qualifications - just paper exercises in reality ?

I once worked with a guy who had an MCSE, he was a new starter, after 30 mins of being sat at his desk he asked how to turn the computer on. He had done the course from books and never actually used a computer at all.

[northernladuk]

Doesn't that apply to most qualifications - just paper exercises in reality ?

Depends. That's too much of a broad statement to be able to qualify 'most'. Most technical ones maybe.. but taking all professional qualifications across the board then you can't say that IMO.

[pauldee]

I have never met anyone with an MCSE who had a clue on how to apply it with common sense and problem solving ability.

That's because they don't test you on common sense and problem solving ability. They test you on remembering stuff.

[kaiser78]

I have never met anyone with an MCSE who had a clue on how to apply it with common sense and problem solving ability.

Doesn't that apply to most qualifications - just paper exercises in reality ?

[Pherlopolus]

Thank you

I real pleasure

[Nayab]

I have never met anyone with an MCSE who had a clue on how to apply it with common sense and problem solving ability.

Thank you

[Pherlopolus]

What's your perm experience got to do with a contracting forum?

Gotta say fella, all your bluff and bluster about how much you've got and what you do ain't endearing yourself to me... But you've got an MCSE so you must be good.

What you don't appear to have though, is a clue and a gig.

I have never met anyone with an MCSE who had a clue on how to apply it with common sense and problem solving ability.

[Nayab]

What's your perm experience got to do with a contracting forum?

Gotta say fella, all your bluff and bluster about how much you've got and what you do ain't endearing yourself to me... But you've got an MCSE so you must be good.

What you don't appear to have though, is a clue and a gig.

That's one way of looking at it, and a view I'm unwilling to share.

[Nayab]

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Nayab this is a serious part of the forum. You want to be writing tulip like this in General.

Understood. I am just finding my feet.

[SueEllen]

I don't do Xmas or Easter or New Year. As a result I worked the bank holiday shifts in addition to my normal shifts at a perm role a few years ago. 5 years of tripe time bonuses at about 6 days per year. Helped pay for my divorce

I am from a poor working class background so I am of the ethic "You keep paying, I'll keep working"

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Nayab this is a serious part of the forum. You want to be writing tulip like this in General.

[northernladuk]

What's your perm experience got to do with a contracting forum?

Gotta say fella, all your bluff and bluster about how much you've got and what you do ain't endearing yourself to me... But you've got an MCSE so you must be good.

What you don't appear to have though, is a clue and a gig.

[Nayab]

I don't do Xmas or Easter or New Year. As a result I worked the bank holiday shifts in addition to my normal shifts at a perm role a few years ago. 5 years of tripe time bonuses at about 6 days per year. Helped pay for my divorce

I am from a poor working class background so I am of the ethic "You keep paying, I'll keep working"

[LondonManc]

I was thinking of when everyone goes on holiday and British business goes into this strange half-life during August.

I am 43 but this I remember when only having Christmas Day and Boxing Day off was the default. Now most permies think having two weeks off is their birthright.

Nostalgia - not what it used to be.

Back then, though, shops used to close on Sundays and had half days on Wednesday so they could have a balanced life.

[SussexSeagull]

What summer shutdown? That's just for factories in't north isn't it?

I was thinking of when everyone goes on holiday and British business goes into this strange half-life during August.

I am 43 but this I remember when only having Christmas Day and Boxing Day off was the default. Now most permies think having two weeks off is their birthright.

Nostalgia - not what it used to be.

[LondonManc]

On a more general point, if the Summer shut down and Christmas furlough grow anymore they are going to meet in the middle!

What summer shutdown? That's just for factories in't north isn't it?