[kj] Oh the Irony!!!

[Brendan]

Yeah dealing with them has turned me into a really hard negotiator,
because they'll shit you any chance they get. The last 3-4 contracts I've
had they have all tried to hit me with a fee for indemnity insurance,
ALWAYS just as you sit down to sign the contract. As if it's your expense
not theirs...last contract I had I refused to sign and gave him a
bollocking about it, basically said his whole profession are a bunch of
crooks...he walked out of the room like it was all over (bluff), then came
back in within 5 seconds and spent the next hour apologising profusely
(?!). The fact is, I'd already worked for 2 years at the company he was
putting me in to, in that exact specialist role, had a great reputation
there, he was clipping the ticket at least twice as well as most standard
contracts...so all up you're talking a few hours work in return for sveral
thousand over the contract...and they want to rip you off by another 50c /
hour (!)...without telling you beforehand.

And yeah, a lot of them have absolutely no idea technically...in all
honestly I've yet to meet a decent one. I supported a company of
recruiters once...bunch of big overblown egos.



> Oh god - fucking recruitment specialists! They shit me. You're in IT

> Brendan so you know how totally fucking inept so-called IT recruitment

> specialists are. Are they the same for all industries?

>

> Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz> wrote:  Banking lawyers!

>

> Let's see if we can come up with the most despicable / despised

> professional

> possible...

>

> Banking lawyer recruitment specialist.

>

> Beat that.

>

>

> -----Original Message-----

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> Behalf Of ade

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>> The worst ones are often the professionals like lawyers etc

>

> Fucking Bankers.

>

> -----Original Message-----

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> [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf Of Brendan

> Sent: 14 April 2008 23:12

> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

> Subject: Re: [kj] Oh the Irony!!!

>

>

> Some people are scared off by anything with buttons.

>

> At work I get questions all the time from users who are presented with a

> message on their screen from Windows or an application...first thing they

> do is ask me what it means. Often it's self explanatory...yet they don't

> even read the message to find that out. They just call me over. That's the

> problem...people get it into their heads that anything technical, or to do

> with computers, is difficult. Even when the message makes perfect

> sense...sigh.

>

> The worst ones are often the professionals like lawyers etc...so absorbed

> in their 15 hour day they can't be bothered to learn how to drive a PC,

> even though it would save them time.

>

> Oh well, pays my bills I suppose.

>

>

>

>

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>>> Bit mean doing this but it made me laugh.

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>> b) how come people can't get the concept of creating subdirectories,

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>> It's not that difficult.

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