Reply to: Delphi Developer

[Mordac]

well i have spoken to my client, and told them this but they will not listen!! i have had one guy interview for the position who had 5 yrs delphi exp but they didnt like him!

not to worry! hope you have a good weekend

what do you guys do anyway....

That settles it. Someone is winding you up. Tell them to stop wasting your time. All that time spent finding someone who doesn't atually exist could be spent doing something useful. If you don't believe us put an ad on Jobserve and see how many responses you get. No-one will be better than the one above. Or we'll eat out virtual hats. And buy you beer. Now there's a challenge.

We're all contractors btw. Well, there are some permies who have nowhere else to go. Most of them are programmers with little or no social skills. I'm into network infrastructure (mainly Microsoft - watch the others *spit*) projects myself. You can have me for £400 a day, so to speak, a little less if it's close to home and not to hard on the old grey stuff. I operate a generous referral scheme, my company will pay a handsome bonus to the agent who secures the right contract and (most importantly) the right terms. What else have you got on the go?

[Mordac]

>I have fantastic Delphi Programming position availble in London Bridge. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a leading and growing organisation.

For £20K? Emma, bit of constructive here, the word "fantastic" appears twice in that sentence. Twice too many. Did it occur to you to tell the client he (or she) was being utterly unrealistic? (living on cloud****ingcuckooland would be how I would have put it.) Like someone else said, you can't possibly hope to find anyone even half-decent at these rates. Why waste your time, our time, and frankly the clients time looking for people at these rates. You're going to earn f-all on commission, the person you find (if anyone at all) is going to be a) not very good; or b) reasonably good and will leave as soon as he realises he's being underpaid by at least 15 grand. HP have been looking for an SMS and MOM guru for 6 months by my reckoning (judging by the calls I still get occasionally), but unless they improve drastically on £225 a day, they'll still be looking come Judgement Day.
We hope to see a distinct improvement in the quality of your postings (not to mention the quality of your rates ) in the coming weeks, so if you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask, we're happy to help.

[bangface]

Some of us are plotting total world domination by Giant Alien Lizards...

I do so hate to be left out...

P.S. "To Serve Man" is a very good cookbook... the recipe on page 233 is particularly toothsome.

Whether we are on the ship with him or back on earth, it doesn't matter, we will all be on the menu!!!

[bangface]

Google is her friend:



Permits!
Oh dear!!

Truly Excellent NoddY!!

[Lucifer Box]

well i have spoken to my client, and told them this but they will not listen!! i have had one guy interview for the position who had 5 yrs delphi exp but they didnt like him!

not to worry! hope you have a good weekend

what do you guys do anyway....

I suggest you be honest with your client and just say there's nothing you can do for them for that level of remuneration. There's no point in wasting their time or yours any further.

On this board, the residents seem to do quite a few things but very few of them related to freelance IT work. Shopkeeping, farming, evangelising, and plotting the international communist revolution appear to be the most common activities.

P.S.
Take no notice of those jokers with their permiesuk website, there's no such thing.

[Harrysp]

4-5yr's Delphi experience and they wouldnt give him a 20k job? lol

I started off as a graduate many moons ago on more than that.

What is the world coming 2?

[Emma Levy]

permits haha!

well i have spoken to my client, and told them this but they will not listen!! i have had one guy interview for the position who had 5 yrs delphi exp but they didnt like him!

not to worry! hope you have a good weekend

what do you guys do anyway....

[NoddY]

Did you mean permits?

*snarfs coffee out of his nose while reading*

Google is her friend:



Permits!
Oh dear!!

[DaveB]

i have tried to get onto permiesuk - but i cant seem to find the URL for it unfortunately.

*snarfs coffee out of his nose while reading*

[Lucifer Box]

re: the delphi position - i guess my client wants a junior bod to do this at the 20k level but it is proving difficult so if any of you know any senior delphi guys who may work in a team with junior people let me know and i will call them

May as well come clean, Emma. Surely your client is just trying to justify an Indian work permit by saying they advertised domestically but couldn't get anyone? The only person you might get to commute to London Bridge for £20k pa is someone with zero commercial experience straight out of university and I would say even that is doubtful.

I think cold calling senior Delphi bods and trying to poach their juniors will not work either. Best you are just honest with your client and tell them they are not being realistic with their remuneration.

[Harrysp]

Lucifer, you are sadly mistaken my son, I have and never will ask a girl to go for a drink through the use of email.

Actually, thinking about it, I think I did, the last piece of married totty that I was ahem shabanging lol

Looks like the only difference between me and el duder is that he got blown away and I actually got blown off LOL

Oh yeah

[Emma Levy]

hi guys
no you havent scared me off yet!

i have tried to get onto permiesuk - but i cant seem to find the URL for it unfortunately.

re: the delphi position - i guess my client wants a junior bod to do this at the 20k level but it is proving difficult so if any of you know any senior delphi guys who may work in a team with junior people let me know and i will call them

all most appreciated, have a good weekend all

[Lucifer Box]

Harrysp is el duder and I claim my crisp fiver.

[Harrysp]

Now look what you bunch of moronic social inbreds have done poor poor Emma has been scared off, you bunch of fools, that is the first lady we have had on these boards for a number of years!! lol

[PerlOfWisdom]

I'm sure there are, but as this is a contractors' board you're asking the wrong people. In any case, for £20k pa at London Bridge, you will not get a Delphi programmer from anywhere except India.

Or is your client angling to get someone in from India and has commissioned you so that they can say they advertised the job domestically but got no takers so they can bring someone in cheap to satisfy a skills shortage?

You'd never get anyone from India to come here for £20,000. They'd work from there for that though.