Reply to: Is anyone else on the bench now?

[molsang]

Ha ha ha .... priceless You should go get yourself a gig down the Comedy Store fella

An old article, still relevant

Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google, condemns British education system | Technology | The Guardian

[MonkeysUncle]

Joining the bench

Looks like i will be joining you on the bench in a couple of weeks...unless there is an 11th hour renewal....not likely though. All I have been hearing for the past couple of weeks is budget this and budget that with furtive glances to all the contractors.

[psychocandy]

Ha ha ha .... priceless You should go get yourself a gig down the Comedy Store fella

Thats a classic....

[Whorty]

The problem in UK is education system and partly cultural, not many UK born highly skilled people.

Ha ha ha .... priceless You should go get yourself a gig down the Comedy Store fella

[psychocandy]

Not getting renewed so am available again in 3 weeks. Had a year out of them and will be quite nice to find something commutable from home so mixed feelings.

JSA?

[psychocandy]

Yup, really annoyed about this as I was 2 months into a 6 month contract, currently on 2 week holiday for my birthday and got an email yesterday from my agent saying the client had put their project on hold and so they’d terminated my contract. They were thinking the pause would come off in March but they had enough people to cover it internally.

I think I’m most annoyed about the fact that I’d planned a 4 week trip away now most of last year. When offered the contract I actually cut my trip to 2 weeks so I could take up the work as it seemed a good place. So now I don’t even have the option to change my trip and no work to go back to.

Super frustrating

Best one I ever had. Good client but they were useless at renewals. Left it to the last day every time. Was there over 2 years though.

My daughter was born so I took a week off. Got back - had email from client manager (who based in Ireland). First email - "Congrats on birth of your daughter", Second Email half hour later "Sorry due to budget issues we can't extend this time so last day is Friday".

[SussexSeagull]

Not getting renewed so am available again in 3 weeks. Had a year out of them and will be quite nice to find something commutable from home so mixed feelings.

[Old Greg]

Ok... and racist comments have been (largely) removed, this thread can resume its original purpose.

How to claim JSA?

[NotAllThere]

Ok... and racist comments have been (largely) removed, this thread can resume its original purpose.

[WTFH]

Is anyone else on the bench now?

I do love rural Britain and I love dealing with people in street. I do feel grateful to all my ex-Managers who recognized me. Since I came from one of the advanced civilizations (became third world because of own fault of not being United, allowed thieving it's wealth) I do have an outside view and I can recognize the hype actually in other side, I didn't bigging up, I was telling facts. It sounded like bigging up because media houses wanted to keep mass as ignorant.

Best way to keep the masses ignorant is to use WhatsApp groups to organise mass lynchings of innocent people who are not given any opportunity for justice.
Next best is to oppress them by preventing them from having basic sanitation and education.

But on here; the best way to control the masses is to hand out infractions to those who bypass the swear filter and rant in the professional forums, and that way we can keep the professional forums professional.

Moving this thread to General and closing it while we decide how to treat an inverted racist.

[jamesbrown]

Milanbenes, is that you?

[Boomer]

Yup, really annoyed about this as I was 2 months into a 6 month contract, currently on 2 week holiday for my birthday and got an email yesterday from my agent saying the client had put their project on hold and so they’d terminated my contract. They were thinking the pause would come off in March but they had enough people to cover it internally.

I think I’m most annoyed about the fact that I’d planned a 4 week trip away now most of last year. When offered the contract I actually cut my trip to 2 weeks so I could take up the work as it seemed a good place. So now I don’t even have the option to change my trip and no work to go back to.

Super frustrating

[uk contractor]

Securing work visas for international workers is incredibly hard and has not been financially worth it for most UK based businesses. EU workers are a different story as they don't require a visa to work. I know of heaps of IT workers (and not just IT) from Poland, Eastern Europe, Western Europe etc who can give native UK born a run for their money in terms of skills, professionalism and drive. In terms of costs they are not cheaper than UK born and why should they be - its a free market. As a business you want to hire the best person for the role not always the cheapest one

That is why they use outsourcers who do all the work for them under the disguise of work via schemes meat for other forms of workers! Do you think the government ever check up on them! The outsourcer takes the lions share of the rate the EU workers get paid a pittance compared to market rates. The ones I have worked with are being heavily exploited by as much as 70% less per day and would rather accept that than nothing back home.

[uk contractor]

There are quite a bit upmarket non-UK born contractors as well who arrived in deep recession post 2008 to test luck and done remarkably well. The problem in UK is education system and partly cultural, not many UK born highly skilled people.

I find this very hard to believe! Cheap yes certainly. Highly skilled only in their own heads! Just because companies hire you as your cheaper do not get confused that its anything to do with skillsets or education systems.

[Lilibet]

Hardly surprising the way work visas are being printed like confetti for the outsourcers to flood the country with IT workers from cheaper countries.

Securing work visas for international workers is incredibly hard and has not been financially worth it for most UK based businesses. EU workers are a different story as they don't require a visa to work. I know of heaps of IT workers (and not just IT) from Poland, Eastern Europe, Western Europe etc who can give native UK born a run for their money in terms of skills, professionalism and drive. In terms of costs they are not cheaper than UK born and why should they be - its a free market. As a business you want to hire the best person for the role not always the cheapest one