inflation is 10%+.
The trick is to put a '1' before Gordon's figure.
E.g Gordon says 2% then it's 12%.
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Originally posted by Lucifer BoxRead On: Real money behind Brown's tricks
the Chancellor really had no need to overstate his case.
In doing so, he risked undermining confidence in what is actually not a bad spending record.
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Originally posted by DimPrawnten + 8 + 3 + 1.5 + 1 = 23.5 yrs solid VB experience
Imagine your pay is £10,000 a year but you have already received a promise of a £2,000 a year increase in each of the next two years. A new boss comes along and says he likes your work so much that he will continue to increase it by £2,000 each year, from 2008-09, until it reaches £20,000 by 2010-11.
Now, how would you describe the pay rise you have just been promised?
I think I would go home and say I had just been given a pay increase of £8,000 over five years, in other words the rise from the £12,000 a year I had already been promised to the £20,000 I will eventually earn.
The Chancellor, by contrast, would go home and tell his family he was getting an extra £80,000.
This would be made up of his total accumulated pay: £12,000 in 2006-07, £14,000 in 2007-08, £16,000 in 2008-09, £18,000 in 2009-10, and £20,000 in 2010-11.
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Originally posted by madhippybut it's what the satanic little $hit$ (agents) ask all the time ... more usually something slightly more esoteric ... "how many years SQL do you have?" etc... I mean - how do you total that one up ?
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Originally posted by expatNot a sensible question.
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Originally posted by madhippywhich is another thing I hate ...
agents asking "how many years experience of x have you got?"
I wrote my first vb app about ten years ago ...
Started using vb regularly about 8 years ago ...
I switched to java about 3 years ago...
I switched to c# about 18 months ago ...
I wrote my last vb code about a year ago ...
so how many years experience of vb have I got ?
Imagine the scene. Me to prospective plumber: how many years of blowlamp do you have? Plumber: Leave it out, mate (or words to that effect).
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Originally posted by milanbeneshe has asked you to update your cv accordingly
you know what this means
Milan.
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let's think about this from a different perspective lads,
let's imagine you are employee of X Consulting Company
let's imagine your current project is coming to an end, it's time to update
the internal cv and your resource manager has approached you about a project coming in requiring somebody with solid VB experience
he has asked you to update your cv accordingly
you know what this means
now the question...
what does it now say on your cv about your VB/.Net experience ?
apply the above to your contracting career and you won't go far wrong
as a professional always be able to carry everything off
here endeth the Benes gem
Milan.
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Originally posted by madhippywhich is another thing I hate ...
agents asking "how many years experience of x have you got?"
I wrote my first vb app about ten years ago ...
Started using vb regularly about 8 years ago ...
I switched to java about 3 years ago...
I switched to c# about 18 months ago ...
I wrote my last vb code about a year ago ...
so how many years experience of vb have I got ?
I had exactly this conversation with an agent over VB6.
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Originally posted by madhippywhich is another thing I hate ...
agents asking "how many years experience of x have you got?"
I wrote my first vb app about ten years ago ...
Started using vb regularly about 8 years ago ...
I switched to java about 3 years ago...
I switched to c# about 18 months ago ...
I wrote my last vb code about a year ago ...
so how many years experience of vb have I got ?
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Originally posted by milanbenes5 years of VB
are you MSDN certified too ?
u da man !
Milan.
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Originally posted by madhippyyou'll be dissing my 5+ years of vb next.
agents asking "how many years experience of x have you got?"
I wrote my first vb app about ten years ago ...
Started using vb regularly about 8 years ago ...
I switched to java about 3 years ago...
I switched to c# about 18 months ago ...
I wrote my last vb code about a year ago ...
so how many years experience of vb have I got ?
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Originally posted by The Lone GunmanIsnt that some sort of touchy feely pointy clicky front end for idiots who cant write real code?
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