Reply to: Council Tax to rise 2X inflation

[woo]

inflation is 10%+.

The trick is to put a '1' before Gordon's figure.

E.g Gordon says 2% then it's 12%.

[expat]

Read On: Real money behind Brown's tricks

The gist of the article is that, although Brown is playing presentational tricks, he is putting real money behind his words:

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.

[Lucifer Box]

ten + 8 + 3 + 1.5 + 1 = 23.5 yrs solid VB experience

Ah, taking a leaf out of Gordon Brown's book. I like it!

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.

Read On: Real money behind Brown's tricks

[DaveB]

but 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 ?

You don't, you pick a number that looks about right and adjust your CV accordingly.

[madhippy]

Not a sensible question.

but 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 ?

[expat]

which 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 ?

Not a sensible question.

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).

[milanbenes]

nice to dream innit Gregor

Milan.

[GeorgeGregan]

he has asked you to update your cv accordingly

you know what this means
Milan.

Thanks Milan, I just added 5 years SAP experience to the CV and now the phone won't stop ringing!

[milanbenes]

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.

[zathras]

which 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 ?

7 years, but 1 year away from the market is too long. The client needs someone who will hit the ground running, not have someone who needs time to get up to speed.



I had exactly this conversation with an agent over VB6.

[DimPrawn]

which 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 ?

ten + 8 + 3 + 1.5 + 1 = 23.5 yrs solid VB experience

[madhippy]

5 years of VB

are you MSDN certified too ?

u da man !

Milan.

yeah ... ye olde MSCD for VS6 and 2/5ths for .net

[madhippy]

you'll be dissing my 5+ years of vb next.

which 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 ?

[milanbenes]

5 years of VB

are you MSDN certified too ?

u da man !

Milan.

[madhippy]

Isnt that some sort of touchy feely pointy clicky front end for idiots who cant write real code?

you'll be dissing my 5+ years of vb next.