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    #11
    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    It helps to understand the mind of an agent to use this analogy in the IT services marketplace.


    Client - supermarket chain
    Agent - Meat wholesaler / slaughterhouse
    Contractor - Cattle

    HTH

    sheep
    Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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      #12
      ewe baaaahstard
      Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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        #13
        Originally posted by Solent View Post
        Scenario - Agencies, ... I get annoyed with false promises as you can tell. Monday rant over with!
        (reply to comlpete paragraph of OP) :

        Typical behaviuor of either agent or customer. They sort you into the queue and try find somebody cheaper oder better skilled. I always work with a 2-day timeout: If I have no "yes" i consider the project to be lost. Saves time.

        Beofer doing so, there has never been a project coming real, where there was more than 2 days silence.

        The current project had benn nogitiated within less than 30 hours starting from the first mail and a PDf-contract.

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          #14
          Originally posted by Solent View Post
          'Mobile Phone Walk' - The Sales guys who cannot stand still when talking on their mobile - They constantly have to pace backwards and forwards - gesticulating,
          If you knew anything about psychology, you'd understand that this is a good thing.

          Hth.

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            #15
            Originally posted by Churchill View Post
            If you knew anything about psychology, you'd understand that this is a good thing.

            Hth.
            If you'd been in the same room trying to work, you'd know it's only good for them

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              #16
              Originally posted by Churchill View Post
              If you knew anything about psychology, you'd understand that this is a good thing.
              You get people on train concourses doing it. Gits.

              Depending on my mood, I used to make a point of either walking into them, kicking them in the ankle or just hitting them with my briefcase at Euston each evening.

              Cheered me up no end.
              My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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                #17
                If you knew anything about psychology, you'd understand that this is a good thing
                Intrigued, why a good thing? Maybe a good thing for them, but bl**dy inconsiderate to the rest of us

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