Reply to: For those thinking of going permie

[snaw]

Some short, fat, balding Walter Mitty character challenged a fat Northern lass to a fight.

Suuuuummmmmoooo.

My money is on the geordie lass, sorry Sas but she'll squash ya like an arse grape

[zara_backdog]

oh - right

[Shimano105]

Nothing much, just kidless people lecturing parents on how best to bring up their offspring.

[sasguru]

What did I miss ?

Some short, fat, balding Walter Mitty character challenged a fat Northern lass to a fight.

[zara_backdog]

FFS Be careful or you'll re-ignite the wrath of SallyAnne and kick off yesterdays nursery debate again ...

What did I miss ?

[MPwannadecentincome]

Come on SA if you think you're hard enough!

this is going to get interesting....

[DimPrawn]

FFS Be careful or you'll re-ignite the wrath of SallyAnne and kick off yesterdays nursery debate again ...

Come on SA if you think you're hard enough!

[snaw]

I pay our childminder/nanny £80 a day.

FFS Be careful or you'll re-ignite the wrath of SallyAnne and kick off yesterdays nursery debate again ...

[DimPrawn]

What for?

Childminding/Nanny duties for the children.

[Mich the Tester]

I pay our childminder/nanny £80 a day.

What for?

[DimPrawn]

Try and avoid taking holidays in your first 11 months. Then, if they do get rid, you've accrued a pay-off of sorts.

Just been approached regarding a 3 month contract in central London. Top rate £125 a day. May as well jump off that cliff now...

I pay our childminder/nanny £80 a day.

[MrMark]

Try and avoid taking holidays in your first 11 months. Then, if they do get rid, you've accrued a pay-off of sorts.

Just been approached regarding a 3 month contract in central London. Top rate £125 a day. May as well jump off that cliff now...

[snaw]

I wouldn't knock it, the way things are at present, but a word of warning ..

An agent just phoned me to say that a client who interviewed me three months ago, and at the time chose someone else, would now like me for a similar contract role.

Anyway, I said I'd be interested but am waiting to hear back from a couple of permie interviews (with quite good salaries, c £60K) and mentioned that security/continuity is becoming more important than contract rate if clients are booting people out after three months and then one hardly avoid a gap before the next contract (if any!).

Not sure if it was scare tactics on his part, or a deliberate tactic by companies, but he replied that companies are increasingly taking on ex-contractors as permies, and then finding some pretext to let them go after three months anyway when they have satisfactorily completed some task!

Work wonders for staff morale will that one ...

Anyway, I'll take what an agent says with a pinch of salts vis-a-vis his take on things if he sniffs a chance of getting commission out of you. I've heard them come out with all manner of sh!te to try to get you hooked.

[swamp]

Is this like the opposite of IR35?

[suityou01]

I wouldn't knock it, the way things are at present, but a word of warning ..

An agent just phoned me to say that a client who interviewed me three months ago, and at the time chose someone else, would now like me for a similar contract role.

Anyway, I said I'd be interested but am waiting to hear back from a couple of permie interviews (with quite good salaries, c £60K) and mentioned that security/continuity is becoming more important than contract rate if clients are booting people out after three months and then one hardly avoid a gap before the next contract (if any!).

Not sure if it was scare tactics on his part, or a deliberate tactic by companies, but he replied that companies are increasingly taking on ex-contractors as permies, and then finding some pretext to let them go after three months anyway when they have satisfactorily completed some task!

They have up to a year to do that as you have **** all rights until you have been there a year. I was once dumped 3 weeks before the year was up as a permie.