Reply to: Bob Job Agents

[Doggy Styles]

I find Bob stories very funny, and without ICTs there would be less of them.

Ergo, should I be in favour of ICTs?

[DodgyAgent]

What's their gain tho? To push ICT's or to get the odd chancer willing to take 180/day for a 450/day role and they take a huge margin?

The ICT route will close anyway, I'm sure of that - even now it does not lead to PR.

I would imagine that this is the case and that they supply to Indian "offshore" companies, though I think you are being a little optimistic if you think the ICT system will change.

[stek]

What appears to be happening is that these indians are actually domiciled in India but they are saying on their Linkedin profiles that they are in the UK - presumably to create the impression that they are local.

What's their gain tho? To push ICT's or to get the odd chancer willing to take 180/day for a 450/day role and they take a huge margin?

The ICT route will close anyway, I'm sure of that - even now it does not lead to PR.

[DodgyAgent]

What appears to be happening is that these indians are actually domiciled in India but they are saying on their Linkedin profiles that they are in the UK - presumably to create the impression that they are local.

[The Spartan]

Aha! It's a Welsh agency undercutting all these honest English folk.

There's nought honest about the English

[gibbsville]

do the updations isn't it
the green green grass of bangalore

[stek]

Aha! It's a Welsh agency undercutting all these honest English folk.

Except he's actually Davi Patel!

[NotAllThere]

...Please send your CV to Davi.

Aha! It's a Welsh agency undercutting all these honest English folk.

[stek]

This one is for Lloyds, it's normally a £450/500 a day type role, dunno who Radley James are; DA heard of them. Look at the rate, this one comes up time and time again...

AIX/pSeries Technical Analyst/Systems Administrator (Manchester or West Yorkshire) job - Manchester - November-27-2012 (C2lAk)

AIX/pSeries Technical Analyst/Systems Administrator with 2+ years high-end AIX, HACCMP, PLAR and ESS SAN experience sought by a major Blue Chip to be based out of either Manchester or West Yorkshire. Responsibilities will include UNIX maintenance and support; participation in end-to-end design; build and implementation and QA.

We are looking to recruit a number of experienced hires on a contract basis with skills as follows:

* AIX Systems Administration field experience
* Power5/6 VIO server, micro partitioning and dual VIOS configuration
* P-Series Power4 & Power5, power 6, Power 7 hardware
* Power4 & Power5, power 6, Power 7 HMC's, CuOD and DLPAR configurations
* CSM/NIM
* LPAR installation, configuration and support
* AIX 5.2 & AIX 5.3, Aix 6.X and AIX 7.X installation, configuration and migration
* HACMP 5.X, 6.X and 7.X installation, configuration and migration
* Shell Scripting
* ESS SAN storage, configuring and supporting (using 2105 compatible multi-path drivers) LUN's within volume groups and in highly available configurations
* SVC Storage, configuring and supporting (using 2145 compatible multi-path drivers) LUN's within volume groups and in highly available configurations
* Excellent Oral and Written Communication

This is a potentially long-term assignment with for AIX/pSeries Technical Analyst/Systems Administrator with a major Blue Chip organisation. Please apply for more details.

Rate: £180 per day

Location: Manchester or West Yorkshire

Duration: three months rolling

Please send your CV to Davi.

[gibbsville]

there are two options you can use for these guys
1. give them the red button needful
2. have a bit of fun with them if you have 10 mins to spare

[DodgyAgent]

Damco, BrightPurple and Avance are three that spring to mind - ludicrously high skill requirements with ludicrously low rates!

If you look at the employees of Avance on Linkedin they are all immigrants that do not seem to meet any criteria either to justify ICTs or as "scarce skills"

[gibbsville]

From what i have seen of damco theres seems to be lots of fiction and not much fact but yeah your right regarding SC and bob's but i dont even think these guys are based in uk so not sure if they could even supply sc staff whether or not they have a uk companys house number etc in fact i could only find the following name under damco

DAMCO IMPORT AND EXPORT LIMITED
Company No. 07954058

but i dont think its the same bunch as they go under the banner of damco solutions so as i said previously they are a scam operator

[stek]

its a scam esp damco they have no intention in offering you a bona fide job as someone has said here before that part of the tier 1 fiasco the client has to sometimes produce evidence that the skill cannot be resourced from the free EU market we all know most of the time it can just not for a stack of chapattis per day

its a scam i tell ya and any damco bob that calls me gets the red button treatment instantly

To be fair Damco at one time where looking for 21 SC cleared AIX virtualisation gurus for £120/day, that can't be Bobbed/ICT'd.

Lying Bob Agent said he'd already got 15 people, I doubt there are that many SC'd AIX/PowerVM doods in the contracting market, we almost all know each other and none of us would go near that rate with a shiity stick.

£120/day, allegedly in Ipswich, I guessed at BT, if role was true they must have filled it with Linux chancers.....

[Jaws]

Bob once gave us a clever solution to an issue where a report was giving an error.
He deleted the line which outputted the error and then tried to sign the bug off.

I have seen similar before... Problem: error raised when saving record to database. Solution: comment out line that saves record.

[KentPhilip]

Damco, BrightPurple and Avance are three that spring to mind - ludicrously high skill requirements with ludicrously low rates!

And they sound genuinely upset and bemused when you tell them you won't get out of bed for double that rate.