Reply to: Speaking the truth here, IR35, contract to perm. What everyone is thinking...

[Paralytic]

Started a conversation about how the corporate world is creating an underclass based not on ability to do the job but ideology and serving the system.
How it has become a managerial feudalism that leaves a deep scars on our society and mental health.

Is that what your post was meant to convey? Why didn't you just say that?

[GigiBronz]

Started a conversation about how the corporate world is creating an underclass based not on ability to do the job but ideology and serving the system.
How it has become a managerial feudalism that leaves a deep scars on our society and mental health.

And people end up talking about nose jobs.

Still not all there to re-write some of my previous ideas... binge drinking since Thursday. Maybe this week.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Some people need it fixed while others can live happily with it deviated as it doesn't cause other problems.

Indeed.

I had mine done so I could stop being an actual mouth breather and get some sleep. You mileage may vary.

Indeed.


The other amusing thing was someone putting down the Bupa thing on their tax form.

Oh how we all laughed when we were stung for the BIK.

The Infernal Revenue attempted to continue to collect that after I'd left and was unemployed.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

That was fixed on the NHS since the factory was about half a mile from Morrison A&E.

And it still makes me laugh thinking about it.






"Toe" was known as "Toe" for the entire 14 13 years he worked there.

We're like that round here.

I've never found it necessary to have my deviated septum fixed, either on the NHS or privately.

I had mine done so I could stop being an actual mouth breather and get some sleep. You mileage may vary.


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[Peoplesoft bloke]

I'm guessing from your user name that you work as a Peoplesoft consultant or similar? Hasn't that been in relative decline for quite some time now?

Yes I retrained to Workday in 2013, but contracting in Workday is much harder and the rates are no better than PeopleSoft. I am not moaning btw - but I really don’t see an explosion in demand for Workday contractors in the short to medium term. One reason is Workday has cooked up with partners to restrict the market.


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[SueEllen]

I've never found it necessary to have my deviated septum fixed, either on the NHS or privately.

Some people need it fixed while others can live happily with it deviated as it doesn't cause other problems.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Oh how we laughed when Alun got a nail stuck in his foot whilst playing football at lunchtime.

That was fixed on the NHS since the factory* was about half a mile from Morriston A&E.

And it still makes me laugh thinking about it.

There wasn’t any question, just got referred and operation done. Not sure why there’s all the “oh so hilarious” toenail talk, but one was a hernia and the other an operation to repair a deviated nasal septum.

Alan was univerally know as "Toe" when he had his ingrowing toenails done after working at the company a whole week.

"Toe" was known as "Toe" for the entire 14 13 years he worked there.

We're like that round here.

I've never found it necessary to have my deviated septum fixed, either on the NHS or privately.


*The factory site is a housing estate now. If only they knew what Cyril had poured down into the quarry.

[edison]

Except the contract market is screwed for good now (at least in my industry) rates haven’t risen for decades and almost all clients have banned PSC engagements, so I know, and my permie employers know I won’t be defecting to a juicy contract

I'm guessing from your user name that you work as a Peoplesoft consultant or similar? Hasn't that been in relative decline for quite some time now?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

If you're a contractor going perm, the hardest thing that you'll face is your status.

Why would they take what they see as a risk on a contractor going perm until the transition to the long-term new normal is complete then watch you jump ship because the contract market has picked up again over an equally-qualified perm whose only reason for availability was because of their employers going bust during the current crisis? I'll save you answering - they wouldn't. The hardest part of my interview for my first perm job in ten years was convincing them that I wanted to stay perm. Easy for me, I genuinely do at this stage of my life but longer term who knows?

Except the contract market is screwed for good now (at least in my industry) rates haven’t risen for decades and almost all clients have banned PSC engagements, so I know, and my permie employers know I won’t be defecting to a juicy contract


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[Peoplesoft bloke]

Surprised you were able to claim anything through private. Was it because the wait list was too long on NHS? Maybe I've just had tulipty policies in the past.

There wasn’t any question, just got referred and operation done. Not sure why there’s all the “oh so hilarious” toenail talk, but one was a hernia and the other an operation to repair a deviated nasal septum.


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[NotAllThere]

To get free darning from an authorised Bridgwater seamstress?

Is that what you call her? Hem hem...

[Old Greg]

I notice you failed to answer the first question: do you have private healthcare through your Ltd?

To get free darning from an authorised Bridgwater seamstress?

[elsergiovolador]

I notice you failed to answer the first question: do you have private healthcare through your Ltd?

I don't.

[WTFH]

I can afford private healthcare myself, thanks.

I notice you failed to answer the first question: do you have private healthcare through your Ltd?

[AtW]

Mine included being able to see (via video call) a private GP whenever you wanted, unfortunately they moved to a new provider this year and that cover has been removed.

Maybe you should not have called her like a thousand times