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Is it me, or agents getting more stupid???

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    #21
    Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
    Whose feeble sockie is this?

    Dunno too busy to read his posts...

    TIME IS MONEY


    ....

    as the people who did not deliver my sofa when they said they would have found out!!!

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      #22
      Originally posted by Fronttoback View Post
      Look mate, I pay your mortgage. I know how you operate. Don't try your sales pitch here. You're wasting your time, and TIME IS MONEY.
      Stick to rapping
      Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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        #23
        Every time you go back into the process you remind yourself how dysfunctional the whole setup is. I do think the recruitment agent should realise that while there are some good one the fact that most candidates and clients hate you isn't going to do your industry any good long term.

        Going direct and LinkedIn probably wouldn't exist if many of you didn't lie for a living.

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          #24
          Originally posted by SussexSeagull View Post
          Every time you go back into the process you remind yourself how dysfunctional the whole setup is. I do think the recruitment agent should realise that while there are some good one the fact that most candidates and clients hate you isn't going to do your industry any good long term.

          Going direct and LinkedIn probably wouldn't exist if many of you didn't lie for a living.
          Quite.

          His brusque technique (were he/she actually for real anyway) would fly against all modern principles of salesmanship. Today, apart from instances when customer retention is not important ,sales and business is about networking and getting to know people that you can call upon to assist you in business -The art is to not give the impression that you are "using" contacts for business. This is a skill that most successful people develop. Treating candidates like sh*t (even contractors ) is the fast path to nowhere.
          Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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            #25
            Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
            Since when were IT contractors employed for their communication skills? We even have retards that still believe that the UK should remain part of the EU
            Some of us have to be very business facing, actually
            The Chunt of Chunts.

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              #26
              Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
              Quite.

              His brusque technique (were he/she actually for real anyway) would fly against all modern principles of salesmanship. Today, apart from instances when customer retention is not important ,sales and business is about networking and getting to know people that you can call upon to assist you in business -The art is to not give the impression that you are "using" contacts for business. This is a skill that most successful people develop. Treating candidates like sh*t (even contractors ) is the fast path to nowhere.
              You are touting modern principals of salesmanship in the same way the people tout agile as the new way to develop software.

              The real developers know how to develop sw and we always have (once we reached consciousness). But to interact with the postmodern sw types (agile plebs) we have to have this layer of bullsh1t to map the real chaotic, creative, sophisticated intellectual process to the fake process of ticking off job tickets as done.

              Similar as you agent wolves who think you are polished. You are still dogs.

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                #27
                Originally posted by Fronttoback View Post
                You are touting modern principals of salesmanship in the same way the people tout agile as the new way to develop software.

                The real developers know how to develop sw and we always have (once we reached consciousness). But to interact with the postmodern sw types (agile plebs) we have to have this layer of bullsh1t to map the real chaotic, creative, sophisticated intellectual process to the fake process of ticking off job tickets as done.

                Similar as you agent wolves who think you are polished. You are still dogs.
                Doesn't say much for your communication skills if you have to use low lives like us to find you work does it?

                As for "real developers" The world doesn't owe you a living. As we agents are constantly told FIFO
                Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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                  #28
                  Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
                  Doesn't say much for your communication skills if you have to use low lives like us to find you work does it?

                  As for "real developers" The world doesn't owe you a living. As we agents are constantly told FIFO
                  DA don't fall for this sockie's tulip.
                  "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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                    #29
                    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
                    DA don't fall for this sockie's tulip.
                    thanks sue ellen!
                    Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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                      #30
                      Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
                      A plumber near me must have had the same training.

                      Been blown out twice now, and no apology or even a quick call to say he couldn't make it!

                      Mind you, alarm bells should have rung louder as soon as he called me "buddy"!

                      It may sound a bit of an eccentric view, but I think there's something weird and slightly creepy when British people call one "buddy". Like "pal", it often seems like a sign of passive aggression at the very least and sometimes outright hostility, although "mate" isn't so bad.
                      You wouldn't like it around here then, some of them call me "love"

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