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    #1

    Big mistake

    I applied for a few jobs at way above my usual rate on Jobserve for fun the other day and activated my latest CV.

    Now I'm being called and e-mailed constantly throughout the day by agents trying to recruit me for work before and after xmas.

    I just want to take some time off in January!

    I don't answer the phone anymore.

    I've deactivated my cv too.

    Whew!
    Don't ask Beaker. He's just another muppet.
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    #2
    spent £20 on a Pay As You Go phone and put that number on my CV when I was applying for things. I haven't been harassed by agents in months now, because I haven't switched it on
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      #3
      Sods law dictates that the supply of work will completely dry up the moment you decide to return to work.

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        #4
        Also, I posted a question in the Ask Beaker thread, when you get a minute...
        ǝןqqıʍ

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          #5
          Originally posted by DiscoStu View Post
          spent £20 on a Pay As You Go phone and put that number on my CV when I was applying for things. I haven't been harassed by agents in months now, because I haven't switched it on
          I bought an iPhone, contacted agents with my new number and then set it on fire so they wouldn't bother me. Expensive but it works!
          The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.

          But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”

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            #6
            Originally posted by Bagpuss View Post
            I bought an iPhone, contacted agents with my new number and then set it on fire so they wouldn't bother me. Expensive but it works!
            You should be fine, if you succumbed to the hard sell on insurance from the carphone warehouse.
            ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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              #7
              I bought an old red telephone box, erected it in the council tip, connected it to a BT landline service, gave the agents that number, then blew it up. It was the only way to stop them bothering me.

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                #8
                You all treat agents as enemies to me they are my customers...

                Every time they call my premium rate number to advise me of the latest job the £££'s are rolling in... queuing time is about 5 minutes before there actually speaking to me, was thinking of increasing it to 6 with Christmas coming up and all.
                "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by DiscoStu View Post
                  spent £20 on a Pay As You Go phone and put that number on my CV when I was applying for things. I haven't been harassed by agents in months now, because I haven't switched it on
                  Brilliant

                  Si posse, recte, si non, quocumque modo rem

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                    #10
                    I simply put the agents number on my CV.

                    It does confuse the poor dears.

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