Reply to: permie panic !

[rootsnall]

Apply, interview, get offered

Then ask them to consider you as a contractor instead

I have thought of that

[Spacecadet]

Apply, interview, get offered

Then ask them to consider you as a contractor instead

[rootsnall]

Thanks for the advice. Especially the example questions !

I've been away and had a deep think about it while painting a wall and I don't think it is in me to blag my way through an interview without a minimum of 6 months on the bench.

Phew

[Advocate]

i've had those questions in contract interviews recently!!!!

Me too...


Did u have the balls to say "at another company" ?

Or did you cosy up with "hopefully you'll offer me a permanent role"?

[Mich the Tester]

A point of order....

If someone is even considering joining the dark-side, do we still talk to them?

They may yet be rescued, so we shouldn’t abandon them too easily.

[PM-Junkie]

A point of order....

If someone is even considering joining the dark-side, do we still talk to them?

[norrahe]

<plays Iggy Pop - Lust for Life >

Choose no life. Choose no career. Choose no family.
Choose a crap desk in a crap office. Choose annual appraisals, performance reviews, unpaid overtime and manadatory training. Choose no payrise, high stress and low pay. Choose fixed interest car loans. Choose a rented shoebox. Choose no friends. Choose chino's and button down shirts. Choose a swivel chair for your office in a range of ******* fabrics. Choose out of hours cover and wondering why the **** you're in the office on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting in that chair looking at mind-numbing, spirit-crushing web sites, drinking bad coffee and eating stale leftovers. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last on some miserable project, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, ****ed up graduates your employer hired to replace you.

Choose your future.

Choose to go Permie.

Not that I'm bitter or anything you understand

[Mich the Tester]

<plays Iggy Pop - Lust for Life >

Choose no life. Choose no career. Choose no family.
Choose a crap desk in a crap office. Choose annual appraisals, performance reviews, unpaid overtime and manadatory training. Choose no payrise, high stress and low pay. Choose fixed interest car loans. Choose a rented shoebox. Choose no friends. Choose chino's and button down shirts. Choose a swivel chair for your office in a range of ******* fabrics. Choose out of hours cover and wondering why the **** you're in the office on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting in that chair looking at mind-numbing, spirit-crushing web sites, drinking bad coffee and eating stale leftovers. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last on some miserable project, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, ****ed up graduates your employer hired to replace you.

Choose your future.

Choose to go Permie.

Not that I'm bitter or anything you understand

Accurate enough.

[DaveB]

<plays Iggy Pop - Lust for Life >

Choose no life. Choose no career. Choose no family.
Choose a crap desk in a crap office. Choose annual appraisals, performance reviews, unpaid overtime and manadatory training. Choose no payrise, high stress and low pay. Choose fixed interest car loans. Choose a rented shoebox. Choose no friends. Choose chino's and button down shirts. Choose a swivel chair for your office in a range of ******* fabrics. Choose out of hours cover and wondering why the **** you're in the office on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting in that chair looking at mind-numbing, spirit-crushing web sites, drinking bad coffee and eating stale leftovers. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last on some miserable project, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, ****ed up graduates your employer hired to replace you.

Choose your future.

Choose to go Permie.

Not that I'm bitter or anything you understand

[Zippy]

Come along now son, you know you don't want to do it. Think of your contractor family and friends and how they would miss you.
Come away from the computer ... no ... don't do it .....

[norrahe]

How did you feel when you heard you'd got an interview for this position?

Where do you see yourself in five years time?

i've had those questions in contract interviews recently!!!!

[Bagpuss]

I just prepared a permie job application, my first one in over a decade, I had my finger on the Apply button but just couldn't do it.

I may weaken. Please help

Imagine the interview where they will enjoy turning the screw about your money grabbing greedy background while being precious over lovely cosy warm permiedom and the ability to compete in their world of meaningless one legged corporate arse kicking competitions. If that thought doesn't make you sick, apply!

[Mich the Tester]

How did you feel when you heard you'd got an interview for this position?

No comment.

Where do you see yourself in five years time?

Not here.

[Alf W]

How did you feel when you heard you'd got an interview for this position?

Where do you see yourself in five years time?

[norrahe]

I just prepared a permie job application, my first one in over a decade, I had my finger on the Apply button but just couldn't do it.

I may weaken. Please help

step away from the computer, do not apply...

but then again....