Reply to: Agents - looking after contractors?????

[Spartacus]

Would Bryan Pickard be our very own SASguru by any chance?

No, I'm Sasguru, errr, Bryan Pickard, errr...

[lORD lUCAN]

Would Bryan Pickard be our very own SASguru by any chance?

Excellent ! Sounds like a cross dresser Only at the weekend hey Brenda....

http://www.tofla.iconbar.com/tofla/c...ianp/index.htm

[DimPrawn]

Never been. I have a long-term contract with holidays paid which is actually very near to expiration.

Aping your contractor friends Francko?

[djfoot]

Would Bryan Pickard be our very own SASguru by any chance?

Nope...'tis I....Pseudonym used to protect the guilty....

[AtW]

I have a long-term contract with holidays paid

LOL!

[The Lone Gunman]

Bryan Pickard, SAS business analyst, said of such an agent, "I expect to be best man at their wedding, be godparent to their children, and they to mine. We will exchange birthday cards and Christmas gifts, and support each other when times get tough... of course, in the real world, it is nothing like this."

Would Bryan Pickard be our very own SASguru by any chance?

[Francko]

Frankco is a permie, innit?

Never been. I have a long-term contract with holidays paid which is actually very near to expiration.

[AtW]

And agreeing with the commodity theme, Frankco, IT architect for a financial consultancy, said, "The empathy element is often missing in the agent-contractor relationship. That's not a very useful approach in the long run, for companies and contractors both."

Frankco is a permie, innit?

[DimPrawn]

Writing on the CUK bulletin board, one contractor with the pen name DimPrawn, put forward his opinion of how contractors relate to agents, "Clients are the supermarkets, agents are the slaughterhouses and we are the cattle."

I thank you.

[Torran]

Fame at last for the Prawn and the Monkey

http://www.contractoruk.com/002804.html

[The Lone Gunman]

IT Contracting "Agents" are not agents, they're brokers. And their fee is paid by the client, who is therefore their customer.

I think the practical difference is that in sports and showbiz the contractor gets one agent (and pays them) and the client will deal with any agent that's got the goods; whereas in IT the client gets an agent or two (and pays them), so it's the contractor that has to deal with any agent that's got the goods.

I.e. in sports what's on sale is the sportsman, and the club is a buyer; in IT it's the job, and the contractor is the buyer.

Bloody hell expat. That sums it up so nicely.

[expat]

IT Contracting "Agents" are not agents, they're brokers. And their fee is paid by the client, who is therefore their customer.

I think the practical difference is that in sports and showbiz the contractor gets one agent (and pays them) and the client will deal with any agent that's got the goods; whereas in IT the client gets an agent or two (and pays them), so it's the contractor that has to deal with any agent that's got the goods.

I.e. in sports what's on sale is the sportsman, and the club is a buyer; in IT it's the job, and the contractor is the buyer.

[hyperD]

Mr Anderson?

"Mr Anderson?"

[GreenerGrass]

Mr Anderson?

Who me or the agent? Neither in any case. Maybe they all get given the same cheesy lines to recite.

[Cowboy Bob]

When I was with Best in 2001 I used to get taken out for a pub lunch about once every 6 months, which cost about the same as their % cut for one hour of my work. And he had the nerve to say "we're good to you aren't we?".
Still thats more than most agencies do for you.

I once got given an invoice by mistake (someone picked it up from the fax machine as it had my name on it) which showed their true cut was about 5% more than they had claimed.

Mr Anderson?