Reply to: A truly useful function for this site

[Francko]

If you're really lazy, try the old fake vague job on Jobserve trick. The desperate litle scrotes will come running.

That's a question for DA. Confess! How many fake job ads did you put on jobserve? Be honest.

[EternalOptimist]

Plus I really need to show bottom line value and contractors are too expensive.

sasguru is a traitor and needs to be punished

[threaded]

Ah that's the spirit i like to see on this site.

[privateeye]

Would be to publish the names of companies giving details of how their supplier process works and which agencies are on the PSL.

Obvioulsly this would cost, but you could seperate the information off into a "subscription only" section.

Not useful for me you understand

How much will you pay a dodgy privateeye for all that info

[xoggoth]

how their supplier process works and which agencies are on the PSL.

Sounds Groovy to me DA although I haven't got a clue what it means.

[Alf W]

Would be to publish the names of companies giving details of how their supplier process works and which agencies are on the PSL.

Obvioulsly this would cost, but you could seperate the information off into a "subscription only" section.

Not useful for me you understand

If you want this kind of information a good idea is to phone round a number of Contractors on your books and pretend you've got a few contracts on the go. Then, casually, drift the conversation onto some of their previous roles, who the key players were, what suppliers and agencies they use, what they are upto at the moment etc. You could even try the old "did you work for Dave Smith .. no .. who did you work for then" trick - your average dumbass contractor won't spot what you're up to.

If you're really lazy, try the old fake vague job on Jobserve trick. The desperate litle scrotes will come running.

Finally, you could try registering with rival Agencies under an assumed name and pump their Agents for what PSLs they are on.

There's food for thought eh?

[Churchill]

correction, you do until June

Is that from January or April?

Churchill - In "Sick of fecking paying" mode!

[DodgyAgent]

No.

correction, you do until June

[sasguru]

You don't work for the government do you?

No.

[sasguru]

You need to engage in some creative accounting, sasguru. Hire a couple of contractors and make sure their cost comes out of the capital expenditure budget - you will be a hero for getting the job done without hitting the operational expenditure budget.

We're seen as mainly experimental at the moment. But you're right, I need to improve my political skills.

[snaw]

It's just the speciality we're in. I don't think our line of business will take off for a while. For now its a struggle just to show value.

You don't work for the government do you?

[sasguru]

Not quite the right thing to say on this site?

Well I used to be one (i.e. contractor). We all know how it works.
It's just the speciality we're in. I don't think our line of business will take off for a while. For now its a struggle just to show value.

[Lucifer Box]

Firm I work for has a hiring freeze on at the moment, so I don't have the budget. Existing permies seem to be coping though. Clever chaps, including 2 Oxbridge PhDs.

Plus I really need to show bottom line value and contractors are too expensive.

You need to engage in some creative accounting, sasguru. Hire a couple of contractors and make sure their cost comes out of the capital expenditure budget - you will be a hero for getting the job done without hitting the operational expenditure budget.

[DodgyAgent]

Firm
Plus I really need to show bottom line value and contractors are too expensive.

Not quite the right thing to say on this site?

[sasguru]

Which reminds me SAS, when are you going to start taking contractors from me?

Firm I work for has a hiring freeze on at the moment, so I don't have the budget. Existing permies seem to be coping though. Clever chaps, including 2 Oxbridge PhDs.

Plus I really need to show bottom line value and contractors are too expensive.