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[GJABS]

Now it's five phone interviews, four online assessments to complete, three references, two face to face interviews for one role,

And a partridge in a pear tree..

[NotAllThere]

What did/does bofh mean?

Now available on El Reg. Data Centre » BOFH • The Register

[stek]

I well remember the Pringle eating contest, who could eat the most in one mouthful at once. 35 won I think. I managed 15 and one chap in the office did 22.

[Fronttoback]

IIRC Freelance Informer was given away free with Computing Weekly occasionally wasn't it? Or maybe my addled memory is tricking me.

[eek]

I used to get FI when I was a permie.

As soon as I started contracting it stopped.

Wasn't Verity Stob one of the contributors, or am I conflating it with Computing etc. which also sent me mags for years.

I'm sure Verity went to the register for a bit as did the bastard operator from hell

[DimPrawn]

Bastard Operator From Hell

We call them offshore DBA's now.

[stek]

What did/does bofh mean?

Bastard Operator From Hell

[original PM]

What did/does bofh mean?

[NotAllThere]

Not forgetting the legendary BOFH...

Computer Weekly? Or Computing? But not FI.

[DimPrawn]

That was the 'golden age of contracting' in the very early 90's where you faxed off six CV's when you needed a gig, got six phone calls, four interviews and four job offers. No fannying about with compliance and background checks. offer, sign, in the door......usually in less than two days.

Now it's five phone interviews, four online assessments to complete, three references, two face to face interviews for one role, that they fill using an Indian bodyshop instead, because there's less forms to fill in going offshore for tax and compliance reasons.

[darmstadt]

I remember that as well but the jobs advertised weren't really in my sector but the other one that came out, what was it, 'Computer Talk' I found much better....

[TestMangler]

Remember FI from back in my early contracting days. I was the only one that got it at the client co I was at and the permies used to beg for a look at it

A magazine full of one month out of date job ads that you faxed your CV for

That was the 'golden age of contracting' in the very early 90's where you faxed off six CV's when you needed a gig, got six phone calls, four interviews and four job offers. No fannying about with compliance and background checks. offer, sign, in the door......usually in less than two days.

[gruntling]

There is a cover at

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BXibowryTY...0/scan0028.jpg

and an article at

Why Can’t une femme be more like un homme?

[Cirrus]

A quick google and the computers says no.

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...-magazine.html

[stek]

Not forgetting the legendary BOFH...