Originally posted by Dominic Connor
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Previously on "The Register: Guide to contracting"
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Yes, that's a challenge.Originally posted by SimonMac View PostDrop code words into your next article, Gladiator, Raditor, Chutney Spoon, AndyW etc
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostI'd love admin to authenticate this new user...
...I'd love to see him try
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Cyrus that you??Originally posted by cojak View PostHa! You're talking to real contractors here matey! (Pinch) Build and improve, that's our motto!
(And welcome to CUK Dominic - love your work.
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OCA Quote
"On any other day, that might seem strange."
Dominic - we aren't Pimpist, DA has haunted our corridors for years mainly unmolested.
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Then this:Originally posted by Dominic Connor View PostTykelike, yes I can bleed radiators, I have enjoyed various TV series about gladiators.
As for being a pimp, you need to be careful with that term since I may have copyright over it. I coined the term in 1986 when I got my first contract and started the pimps conference on CIX a few year later.
So yes I am a pimp
Is doubly funnyOriginally posted by SimonMac View PostThe trick to dealing with recruitment agents is not to think of them as human beings, but as systems that you have to make act the way you want
I think its pretty much spot on!
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Ha! You're talking to real contractors here matey! (Pinch) Build and improve, that's our motto!Originally posted by Dominic Connor View PostTykelike, yes I can bleed radiators, I have enjoyed various TV series about gladiators.
As for being a pimp, you need to be careful with that term since I may have copyright over it. I coined the term in 1986 when I got my first contract and started the pimps conference on CIX a few year later.
So yes I am a pimp
(And welcome to CUK Dominic - love your work.
)
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Tykelike, yes I can bleed radiators, I have enjoyed various TV series about gladiators.
As for being a pimp, you need to be careful with that term since I may have copyright over it. I coined the term in 1986 when I got my first contract and started the pimps conference on CIX a few year later.
So yes I am a pimp
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Hang on a minuteOriginally posted by cojak View PostBut my favourite article of Dominic's is You're crap and paid too much for the little work you actually do ? The Register

Is he... is he... is he a pimp?!that I, as a City headhunter and former contractor,
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Just because we are Daily Mail readers doesn't mean we are all xenophobes, my cleaner is foreign, I think they are from Newcastle or somewhere in that regionOriginally posted by Bunk View PostWe're a bit worried that our Daily Mail obsession has been rumbled though
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