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Previously on "Scooterscot's love affair with the Germans - how long will it last?"
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Originally posted by Churchill View Post*That* was a statement you illiterate cretin! No wonder you're *just* an "agent".
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostThe question you should have asked is:
"Because Pooperscoop cant make friends in Germany he is having to convince himself that moving there was wothwhile"
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London pays better than Germany??? I think not, in my field I've spent the last 2.5yrs working/living in Germany and just 2days working in the Uk. Agents have tried to tempt me to take Uk contracts but the rate is usually circa 100GBP per day less than I'm on here and they expect an all inclusive price rather than rate+expenses.
Thanks but I'm very happy with my German lifestyle, when I go back to the Uk and mix with my old circle of friends I realise I made the right choice and this doesn't seem likely to change in the near future.
Sas, you're talking tulipe as always.
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostYou're making another asinine statement comparing "the City" with Germany.
That's almost certainly because you are mediocre.
The Germans are so short of IT bods they'll pay over the odds for anybody.
But they won't pay you the up-to-thousands per day you'll get in the City if you're top notch.
My point is if you're the best, London will pay the best - and maybe Frankfurt for that matter.
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Originally posted by darrenb View PostAnd of course UK agents try to flog some German jobs as well at post-crisis UK rates, so as to pocket the difference. Advice to anyone thinking about leaving the UK: don't use an English goon for a job on the Continent.
Story about that, English agent attempted to secure my Munich position but did not want to use them, it felt like dealing with dell boy.
I told them i'd find another agent willing to deal with the client. They told me you'll never be successful etc. In fact they became very aggressive on the other end of the phone.
Signed with a German agency 24 hours later, who had not one contractor on site.
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostSorry but the City doesn't pay that much, not in my area anyway. UK agents ring me up quite often about various positions in the City yet can't match my rate, even when I'm working in the middle of nowhere Germany. Their excuse is that they can get someone cheaper local, yet they still have to ring me up. I've worked in the City and quite honestly wouldn't do it again.
In fact I'm in the process of completing a London contract at the minute whilst working in a far away land. Charging a fixed price for the job. What strikes me is they could not find a candidate in the whole of the UK for the position. Clients are choosing very carefully who they shall employ and don't want to spend top dollar on agent fees.
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostSorry but the City doesn't pay that much, not in my area anyway. UK agents ring me up quite often about various positions in the City yet can't match my rate, even when I'm working in the middle of nowhere Germany. Their excuse is that they can get someone cheaper local, yet they still have to ring me up. I've worked in the City and quite honestly wouldn't do it again.
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostSorry but the City doesn't pay that much, not in my area anyway. UK agents ring me up quite often about various positions in the City yet can't match my rate, even when I'm working in the middle of nowhere Germany. Their excuse is that they can get someone cheaper local, yet they still have to ring me up. I've worked in the City and quite honestly wouldn't do it again.
You're making another asinine statement comparing "the City" with Germany.
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostThat's almost certainly because you are mediocre.
The Germans are so short of IT bods they'll pay over the odds for anybody.
But they won't pay you the up-to-thousands per day you'll get in the City if you're top notch.
My point is if you're the best, London will pay the best - and maybe Frankfurt for that matter.
Of course you're right its not all about money - but I'd rather earn the money in the City when I'm young then retire in luxury to Berlin or wherever if that took my fancy.
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Originally posted by ThomasSoerensen View PostYou don't need to suck up to me. I will still not be your friend.
FOAD
By the way, there is a spelling error in your juvenile poll, fix it moron.
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostThat's almost certainly because you are mediocre.
The Germans are so short of IT bods they'll pay over the odds for anybody.
But they won't pay you the up-to-thousands per day you'll get in the City if you're top notch.
My point is if you're the best, London will pay the best - and maybe Frankfurt for that matter.
Of course you're right its not all about money - but I'd rather earn the money in the City when I'm young then retire in luxury to Berlin or wherever if that took my fancy.
FOAD
By the way, there is a spelling error in your juvenile poll, fix it moron.
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Originally posted by darrenb View PostI am earning more here than I would in central London. .
The Germans are so short of IT bods they'll pay over the odds for anybody.
But they won't pay you the up-to-thousands per day you'll get in the City if you're top notch.
My point is if you're the best, London will pay the best - and maybe Frankfurt for that matter.
Of course you're right its not all about money - but I'd rather earn the money in the City when I'm young then retire in luxury to Berlin or wherever if that took my fancy.
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostIs it fact? How do we know? Is this an example of the British oneupmanship we hear about? My car, my house, my boat, my wife...A sad example of materialism where you have to point out that you have a shed which costs as much as a house up north in an overly priced building to keep you warm during those bleak midwinters that seem to occur with so much regularity now (on a bloody Internet forum as well!)
It could properly be defined as a personality disorder, if it were ever to be established that he possesses a personality. So far that is looking unlikely though.
Just humour him............everyone else does......even his nurses. That is why they let him on the Internet if he finishes up all of his dinner.
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