Reply to: Contractor or Conman?

[Scoobos]

I know you care really, because you give me attention on this forum

[SupremeSpod]

rofl you git.

I'm pretty hard - the place I'm at now has 1 day notice for the first 4 weeks.

I've been here 2 days less than 4 weeks and am considering jumping ship - but in that time we've had 3 other contractors and they have all left on day ONE...

Other people here have left in tears, had nervous breakdowns, puked into the toilets on day 2.

Chinstrap time for me, I used to say I wouldnt get out of bed for double the wage. So at least I'm trying to continue...

Keep calm and tell it to someone who gives a sh!t.

A job is a job. Don't let it **** your life.

[Scoobos]

rofl you git.

I'm pretty hard - the place I'm at now has 1 day notice for the first 4 weeks.

I've been here 2 days less than 4 weeks and am considering jumping ship - but in that time we've had 3 other contractors and they have all left on day ONE...

Other people here have left in tears, had nervous breakdowns, puked into the toilets on day 2.

Chinstrap time for me, I used to say I wouldnt get out of bed for double the wage. So at least I'm trying to continue...

[SupremeSpod]

Whilst i understand what you are saying listing over 20 vendor qualifications that you don't have is too much.

If i come across as blaming everything but myself, thats not the case - and I am in contract now, just a crap one.


I do tender my CV's to the role - the problem is that my market is ultra competitive and the roles just dont seem to be there....

Hey, so you're crap, go and work with MF.

[Scoobos]

Whilst i understand what you are saying listing over 20 vendor qualifications that you don't have is too much.

If i come across as blaming everything but myself, thats not the case - and I am in contract now, just a crap one.


I do tender my CV's to the role - the problem is that my market is ultra competitive and the roles just dont seem to be there....

[SupremeSpod]

<Dr Phil>
Maybe you just need someone to re-write your CV for you. Put in some buzzy words etc. Agents don't read your CV they put it through a search application, if there is a ??% match they will look at it.

If you are on the bench stop thinking you are right, everybody else should change, unless you want to stay on the bench.

I realised I was missing experience in some areas, my match rate was no high enough. So I took a role to give me what I needed (I would have taken a low rate). I could have lied.

Don't keep doing the same thing, and complaining it does not work!

</Dr Phil>

<Dr Spod>You're pissing into the wind!</Dr Spod>

[alluvial]

I thought it was your Plan A and Plan B was to do some genuine work.

Nah, too much like hard work.

[alreadypacked]

I think I'm going to cry..

I seriously cant believe it, the devil in me wants to join in and just bulltulip like him, but I shouldn't have to, I've a good background but cant find a decent contract for toffee.

I got totally lied to by my client for my current one, I have 3 days to find a replacement (1 days notice) or I'm stuck for the duration until July.

<Dr Phil>
Maybe you just need someone to re-write your CV for you. Put in some buzzy words etc. Agents don't read your CV they put it through a search application, if there is a ??% match they will look at it.

If you are on the bench stop thinking you are right, everybody else should change, unless you want to stay on the bench.

I realised I was missing experience in some areas, my match rate was no high enough. So I took a role to give me what I needed (I would have taken a low rate). I could have lied.

Don't keep doing the same thing, and complaining it does not work!

</Dr Phil>

[nomadd]

I've bent the truth to get a contract and I do it again if I had to. Business is business.

Every contractor does this, especially those who claim they've never lied on their cv.

BTW, I never lie on my cv.

[Lockhouse]

I've bent the truth to get a contract and I do it again if I had to. Business is business.

[wim121]

I think I'm going to cry..

I seriously cant believe it, the devil in me wants to join in and just bulltulip like him, but I shouldn't have to, I've a good background but cant find a decent contract for toffee.

Indeed. Sometimes Ive thought why not just lie on my CV. The problem is Im too honest and dont fudge it at all. Maybe I should.

I got totally lied to by my client for my current one, I have 3 days to find a replacement (1 days notice) or I'm stuck for the duration until July.

ce?

[Scoobos]

I think I'm going to cry..

I seriously cant believe it, the devil in me wants to join in and just bulltulip like him, but I shouldn't have to, I've a good background but cant find a decent contract for toffee.

I got totally lied to by my client for my current one, I have 3 days to find a replacement (1 days notice) or I'm stuck for the duration until July.

[wim121]

even if it is spam - I had an experience with this this week.

There's a guy who contracted at the same client I did who has totally made up his entire work there, including some really weird and wonderful technologies along with totally fabricated vendor qualifications . (the guy needed assistance with very basic tasks , but has quals that should have him more talented than me). I'm 100% sure everything he says is a lie regarding the post last year and his experience.

I'm dissapointed to see that hes placed at KPMG for 8 months and now at a top investment bank in the city , while I sat on the bench and now work in a 50% cut rate, crappy joke of an assignment ...

*insert worlds smallest violin*

I hate this ... really grinds my gears.

Similar experiences before.

Had ones that have every engineer/MS/cisco cert going, then keeps asking me how to modify such and such in AD, how to get the image over lan working, etc etc, all simple jobs in a really easy gig which you take to put your feet up at.

[pmeswani]

even if it is spam - I had an experience with this this week.

There's a guy who contracted at the same client I did who has totally made up his entire work there, including some really weird and wonderful technologies along with totally fabricated vendor qualifications . (the guy needed assistance with very basic tasks , but has quals that should have him more talented than me). I'm 100% sure everything he says is a lie regarding the post last year and his experience.

I'm dissapointed to see that hes placed at KPMG for 8 months and now at a top investment bank in the city , while I sat on the bench and now work in a 50% cut rate, crappy joke of an assignment ...

*insert worlds smallest violin*

I hate this ... really grinds my gears.

Sounds like the same bloke I worked with in Reading.

[pmeswani]

Hey! That was my plan B!

I thought it was your Plan A and Plan B was to do some genuine work.