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Previously on "HELP! I want to go permi."

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  • AlfredJPruffock
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    There is no such thing as a permanent job.

    Rather you have contracts of fixed duration and contracts of unspecified duration - both of which have notice periods.

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  • andy
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    A recession is well due. Property prices have ballooned to 2-3 times in most of the world and so are the share prices.
    All thanks to yen carry trade

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  • Francko
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    Originally posted by Euro-commuter
    <slap>. Next recession is not due for another 4 years.
    There won't be a recession anymore.

    And houseprices will continue to rise 10% a year forever.

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  • Euro-commuter
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    Originally posted by andrew_neil_uk
    I think its quite a good time to go permie - b4 next recession.

    mind you they will probably sack permies as well as contractors - someone slap me around until I come to my senses!
    <slap>. Next recession is not due for another 4 years.

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  • The Lone Gunman
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    Can someone get rid o fthis thread, it is frightening me.

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  • Francko
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    Originally posted by andrew_neil_uk
    I think its quite a good time to go permie - b4 next recession.

    mind you they will probably sack permies as well as contractors - someone slap me around until I come to my senses!
    It makes sense, we are all doomed.

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  • BrilloPad
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    I think its quite a good time to go permie - b4 next recession.

    mind you they will probably sack permies as well as contractors - someone slap me around until I come to my senses!

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  • Churchill
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    The payment of a "finders fee" is none of your business. It's between the client and your agency. Stay out of it.

    Safer and more professional in the long run.

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  • milanbenes
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    fecking cheapskates

    avoid



    Milan.

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  • Euro-commuter
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    Originally posted by andre05
    Hi, I have been contracting for this company for a couple of months and last week my manager has offered me this great permanent post. They are very keen on me but they do not want to pay the agency release fee. Is there anything I can do a part from waiting 6 months?
    Andre`
    Think of it as a finder's fee. Do they not think you were worth finding?

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  • threaded
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    Originally posted by andre05
    Hi, I have been contracting for this company for a couple of months and last week my manager has offered me this great permanent post. They are very keen on me but they do not want to pay the agency release fee. Is there anything I can do a part from waiting 6 months?
    Andre`
    If the client is willing to shaft another company that is known to have a gaggle of tame lawyers, what might they do to you one day; you who'll have to go running around various conveyancing/divorce shops 'til they find a real solicitor?

    Oh, and if an offer feels too good to be true, it often is.

    Jeez, one born every minute.

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  • thunderlizard
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    Come to a creative compromise: e.g. in exchange for 6 months slumming it, they pay you a 15% signing-on bonus.

    But I'd be wary about going permanent with a company that couldn't scrape together a 30% recruitment fee. Actually I'd just be wary about going permanent.

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  • scooterscot
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    Pull yourself together man. They'll never take me alive!

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  • andre05
    started a topic HELP! I want to go permi.

    HELP! I want to go permi.

    Hi, I have been contracting for this company for a couple of months and last week my manager has offered me this great permanent post. They are very keen on me but they do not want to pay the agency release fee. Is there anything I can do a part from waiting 6 months?
    Andre`

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