Reply to: Just how stupid are contractors?

[FIERCE TANK BATTLE]

I'm working with a guy who has self declared inside refusing to take the QDOS assessment for £100.... We've both got a renewal until September but I will be around £20K better off. He panicked, took a perm offer then rejected it for an inside day rate.

Makes you wonder. Even if I *were* acting inside, I'd take the 20k, and the qdos IR35 insurance, and hope for the best.

[eek]

For supposedly intelligent contractors some of you can be ******* muppets where money is concerned!!

It's the lack of reading comprehension I don't get - what does partial, split, divide, share mean and why does it appear after the word money...

[cojak]

For supposedly intelligent contractors some of you can be ******* muppets where money is concerned!!

[Whorty]

Oi! I Like HP Sauce, THE ONLY SAUCE TO HAVE ON GAMMON!

Cannibal!!

[BrilloPad]

Oi! I Like HP Sauce, THE ONLY SAUCE TO HAVE ON BACON!

I used to disagree with everything they said about you. I just changed my mind....

[Wilmslow]

I'm working with a guy who declared himself inside because he couldn't think of anyone that he could send in as a substitute offhand.

I'm working with a guy who has self declared inside refusing to take the QDOS assessment for £100.... We've both got a renewal until September but I will be around £20K better off. He panicked, took a perm offer then rejected it for an inside day rate.

[FIERCE TANK BATTLE]

I'm working with a guy who declared himself inside because he couldn't think of anyone that he could send in as a substitute offhand.

[Zigenare]

Working with him for 3 years now. First year he had no idea who I was. After a year he mentioned CUK and said "But I don't know any posters on there". I asked "Are there any posters you rate". His response "BrilloPad is pretty good".

Its one of the reasons I keep hanging round though I should have left ages ago.

Of course, it might be better if I just posted nonsense. But I don't want to tread on your toes. What can one expect from someone who likes HP sauce?

Oi! I Like HP Sauce, THE ONLY SAUCE TO HAVE ON BACON!

[BrilloPad]

Tell him about the pastie guy. In exactly the same position as contractors. Instead of spending 20 years whining and fighting in the courts, he just paid off the politicians and sorted out out in a week.

Always makes me laugh.

All it needed was a bribe.

Is this like Greggs pasties? Doesn't NF like Greggs pasties? I can't see NF bribing anyone - but if so top man!

[hugebrain]

I sit next to a very long time lurker on CUK. He already thought contractors were really stupid - but threads of the last few weeks have really made him despair.

What can I say to cheers him up?

Tell him about the pastie guy. In exactly the same position as contractors. Instead of spending 20 years whining and fighting in the courts, he just paid off the politicians and sorted out out in a week.

Always makes me laugh.

All it needed was a bribe.

[BrilloPad]

Tell him you've gone permie so the average IQ went up a few points

After April, he will be the only contractor in the (quite large) financial services company. And he is outside IR35. Awesome.

[SimonMac]

I sit next to a very long time lurker on CUK. He already thought contractors were really stupid - but threads of the last few weeks have really made him despair.

What can I say to cheers him up?

Tell him you've gone permie so the average IQ went up a few points

[LondonManc]

Working with him for 3 years now. First year he had no idea who I was. After a year he mentioned CUK and said "But I don't know any posters on there". I asked "Are there any posters you rate". His response "BrilloPad is pretty good".

Its one of the reasons I keep hanging round though I should have left ages ago.

Of course, it might be better if I just posted nonsense. But I don't want to tread on your toes. What can one expect from someone who likes HP sauce?

Was this a monologue and you're coming out as schizophrenic?

[sal]

Like I have said before - if there is any positive aspect of the changes - it will be to purge the market of the permitractors.

Hopefully with time the market will calm down and private sector will start taking more notice/care about working practices. Just like the public sector did.

[eek]

The purveyors of schemes rely on it.

On Friday I got a report that someone is using the name "Contractor UK" for their scheme marketing.

Admin, Cojak, WTFH and NAT have all confirmed it has nothing to do with them..