Reply to: The ways of IT contracting

[unemployed]

Your mum pays you for living in her basement?

nope i pay her in washing and dirty plates

[FatLazyContractor]

not always , i do feck all but get paid feck all.

Your mum pays you for living in her basement?

[unemployed]

The more you get paid (day rate), the less you do.

Discuss.

not always , i do feck all but get paid feck all.

[LondonManc]

Hole in one

I worked up at the SBS site years ago in one of my last few perm roles. Nice little place but had a few quirks about it and commute was a pain.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Why would people have a problem? It's next valley from Bradford.

Nice little place but 4 degrees colder than anywhere around it and a bugger to get to for a commute.

HML?

Hole in one

[LondonManc]

Lot's of Asians working there..... I guess some of you may have a problem with that.

Why would people have a problem? It's next valley from Bradford.

Nice little place but 4 degrees colder than anywhere around it and a bugger to get to for a commute.

HML?

[MrMarkyMark]

My best role to date was working in Skipton doing a migration on a decent rate. Managed to get on really well with everybody and flexed my technical muscles. Delivered a super migration too. Money isn't everything.

Fascinating insight Bro, nice one

[barrydidit]

Lot's of Asians working there..... I guess some of you may have a problem with that.

HCL & UFSS? An interesting alliance, I found

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

There's never been a migratin problem in skipton

Lot's of Asians working there..... I guess some of you may have a problem with that.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

I bet you gave him his value add.



Skipton market?

Turned down the extension and walked away.

[vetran]

Me too. Especially the one who got sacked from here. <-me waving the twat bye bye.

teach him to not hire you?

[barrydidit]

I bet you gave him his value add.



Skipton market?

There's never been a migratin problem in skipton

[FatLazyContractor]

there talked about how he wanted to get "value add"

I bet you gave him his value add.

My best role to date was working in Skipton doing a migration on a decent rate. Managed to get on really well with everybody and flexed my technical muscles. Delivered a super migration too. Money isn't everything.

Skipton market?

[original PM]

Think the reason is something like this

Hiring manager will have in his head a figure which is 'a lot of money' and so if you earn less than that he/she will see you as below them and therefore able to treat you like turd

if you are above that he will see you as better than him and so he/she will kiss your ass

Got to remember there is no grey areas with these idiots - either you are worse than them and so they treat you like tulip or you are better than them and so they kiss your arse

fookin hate dense coonts like that

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Yes. From my experience.

Low rate usually means frenzied code monkey at some skin flint client counting every penny, rubbing shoulders with cheapo Bobs.

High rate you are usually much further up the IT food chain, lots of meetings and Powerpoints, nodding of heads and synergizing.

Sounds about right

The highest rate I got I worked a lot less for than the bottom end ones. When I first started out I got a rate of £280/day and the hiring manager there talked about how he wanted to get "value add"

Fast forward a few years and the higher rates have meant as u put it more meetings and philosophising. It's actually a bit soul destroying.

My best role to date was working in Skipton doing a migration on a decent rate. Managed to get on really well with everybody and flexed my technical muscles. Delivered a super migration too. Money isn't everything.