Anyone here worked for Capita?

[Fred Bloggs]

Working for them ATM and they seem fine to be honest, all going through LTD Co. with no problems.

That being said there are only 2 permies in the building I'm in, the rest of us are contractors so I have virtually no experiance of what the permie side of the company is like.

I've had the exact same experience at another client co. One office was fine, 99% contractors, I was there for 6 months. A different office in the same client co was 95% staffys with chips on their shoulders so wide that they couldn't hardly get through the doors, I was there for 6 weeks because that's how long it took to line up another gig elsewhere.

[Flopsy]

My husband worked for Capita in London. It wasn't like any other IT outsourcing IT company he had worked with before (or since). The people weren't like the "normal" range of IT people (sorry this is hard to get across). None of them were professionals or even geeks.

There were lots of young people out of general school courses or those who had changed careers and done a course in IT (like those ads on TV). It was more like a Jobcentre mix of employees or an Estate Agents (that's the closest we can get to the people).

Having Capita on your CV isn't good. It's an option to consider if there is simply nothing else or if there is something specific that they can train you in.

Just an opinion. It may just have been the staff at this London site as well.

[Ardesco]

When I was working for them and had to attend their walton on thames site for meetings, their office was overflowing with cheap asian labour.

Only one Asian guy that I've seen here and his design work is really rather good

[BolshieBastard]

Working for them ATM and they seem fine to be honest, all going through LTD Co. with no problems.

That being said there are only 2 permies in the building I'm in, the rest of us are contractors so I have virtually no experiance of what the permie side of the company is like.

When I was working for them and had to attend their walton on thames site for meetings, their office was overflowing with cheap asian labour.

[Ardesco]

Working for them ATM and they seem fine to be honest, all going through LTD Co. with no problems.

That being said there are only 2 permies in the building I'm in, the rest of us are contractors so I have virtually no experiance of what the permie side of the company is like.

[pmeswani]

Had an interview with them yesterday and they seem like a decent clientco. While reading up on the usual blurb, I didn't realise they had their fingers in so many pies and have still kept a fairly low profile.

The deal is a 3-6 month contract, money is OK, my only problem possibly, is they want to put me on their payroll for the duration, so I'll accure the 1.5 days of leave per month, pension if I want (I don't want), staff discounts etc.....

As I've not been on anyone's payroll bar my own for the last 10 or so years, is there anything I should be wary of here?

TIA

You'll become an FTC. Don't do it. Avoid working for Crapita.

[scooterscot]

Did work for them before they tried it on I insisted I was using my Ltd co, never a problem getting paid.

[BolshieBastard]

Had an interview with them yesterday and they seem like a decent clientco. While reading up on the usual blurb, I didn't realise they had their fingers in so many pies and have still kept a fairly low profile.

The deal is a 3-6 month contract, money is OK, my only problem possibly, is they want to put me on their payroll for the duration, so I'll accure the 1.5 days of leave per month, pension if I want (I don't want), staff discounts etc.....

As I've not been on anyone's payroll bar my own for the last 10 or so years, is there anything I should be wary of here?

TIA

They're shyte imo. Bunch of shysters. Worked on the CRB project for them and all they were concerned with was making as much out of the client as possible.

They did pay a decent rate but expected 15 hour days at times in return!

[DaveB]

I did a couple of months with them last year. Bog standard consultancy group. Not the best organised in the world. Sent to Dublin to do an audit, got there to find out no-one had told the guys I was supposed to audit that I was coming and half of them were out of the office...

Works through my own limited without any problems. ARe you goign direct or via an agency?

Sounds like they think you are a temp, not a contractor. You may need to clarify things.

[Brussels Slumdog]

Expenses

Had an interview with them yesterday and they seem like a decent clientco. While reading up on the usual blurb, I didn't realise they had their fingers in so many pies and have still kept a fairly low profile.

The deal is a 3-6 month contract, money is OK, my only problem possibly, is they want to put me on their payroll for the duration, so I'll accure the 1.5 days of leave per month, pension if I want (I don't want), staff discounts etc.....

As I've not been on anyone's payroll bar my own for the last 10 or so years, is there anything I should be wary of here?

TIA

You won't be able to claim expenses if its away from home.

[stingman123]

Surley not any more worst than EDS?

[stingman123]

Had an interview with them yesterday and they seem like a decent clientco. While reading up on the usual blurb, I didn't realise they had their fingers in so many pies and have still kept a fairly low profile.

The deal is a 3-6 month contract, money is OK, my only problem possibly, is they want to put me on their payroll for the duration, so I'll accure the 1.5 days of leave per month, pension if I want (I don't want), staff discounts etc.....

As I've not been on anyone's payroll bar my own for the last 10 or so years, is there anything I should be wary of here?

TIA