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Get a uk contractor for remote working!Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostI have 90 to review for 5 new positions(3 perm/2 contract). I am of the opinion that US contractors are fooking useless. The resumes you get.
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Yes, but unlike you I can carry off purple shoes and tight leather trousers in the office.Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostWell you chose to be a permie.
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Well you chose to be a permie.Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostEh? I'm the one carrying the can. I can't hire idiots they may show me up.
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Eh? I'm the one carrying the can. I can't hire idiots they may show me up.Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostThen start taking bribes you wally.
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Then start taking bribes you wally.Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostThe problem is you can't blag a blagger. I know too much.
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The problem is you can't blag a blagger. I know too much.Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostMF, you've been a contractor, so you know the routine; blag it, learn it, deliver it. Why do you now expect something different from contractors?
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MF, you've been a contractor, so you know the routine; blag it, learn it, deliver it. Why do you now expect something different from contractors?
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Stop defending it, it was a load of bollocks. Oh, and next time try not to put yourself down as a project manager, I saw through that one as well.Originally posted by suityou01 View PostThat statement, albeit clumsy, is perfectly sound. It smells like it was cribbed from a technical article and then reworded to cover ones tracks.
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Consider this. If a business lost it's core suite of applications, but still had it's data it could still function. Hire a team of data processing clerks, go to paper based. You could still function, albeit at an alarmingly reduced speed.Originally posted by Dactylion View PostIt sounded like total bulltulip regurgitated by a moron.
I didn't know it was from a cv - I thought it was just MF.
If the same business had it's core suite of applications but lost it's data? Game over.
Yet in pretty much every gig I have been in in 17 years the sheer contempt for data quality has been the one constant.
Around 3 gigs ago I did a data migration to SAP. I pointed out that the 16 million pound spend would be cheapened slightly if you didn't spend 6 months or so cleaning up the data. I was ignored and we loaded the same garbage to SAP. 16 million pound garbage in, garbage out system.

So imagine my surprise when I say this guy being interviewed for the SAP user group, waxing lyrical about data being the lifeblood of the business, and how he had worked extremely hard to cleanse the data and put in a master data management plan etc etc. This stuffed suit used to avoid meetings and when challenged just shrug and say "It's just dayda" in his phoney mid atlantic drawl.
He was universally hated and a total knob.
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It sounded like total bulltulip regurgitated by a moron.Originally posted by suityou01 View PostThat statement, albeit clumsy, is perfectly sound. It smells like it was cribbed from a technical article and then reworded to cover ones tracks.
I didn't know it was from a cv - I thought it was just MF.
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That statement, albeit clumsy, is perfectly sound. It smells like it was cribbed from a technical article and then reworded to cover ones tracks.Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post" I strive to seek out the correct data to support business decisions, communicate it in a meaningful
way, and quantitatively measure its success or failure to guide future decisions. My favorite question to ask is
“Why?” and my favorite phrase to combat is “We do it like that because we’ve always done it that way”. "

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