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Note that this is a re-post because it happened again (d’oh!). Sorry Evan, I lost your comment – feel free to post it again. Well that was annoying. The server this blog (and stut.net) is on suffered a minor (ahem) issue. Basically the filesystem got corrupted, and what with RAID being as reliable as it [...]

Further to my previous post on recruitment agencies I felt I had to post details of an exchange I had with an agent today because it is a great example of the attitude most recruitment agents have. I got an email at 12:15pm from an agent, let’s call him Paul because that is his name, [...]

My last boss has written a blog entry about my experiences with recruitment agencies during that employment. What Nick doesn’t mention is that in addition to the phonecalls I was getting upwards of ten emails a day from them at one point. I had a boiler-plate reply asking them to remove me from their databases, [...]

I’m currently looking for a new job. As part of this joyous process I have re-enabled my CV on Jobsite. This usually results in a vast quantity of phonecalls and emails, and this is what has happened. In amongst the promising and the not-so-promising, I had an email from one recruitment agent that included a [...]

I went to Reading today to do some pre-Christmas shopping, and had an experience with a salesperson that made me wonder when it became OK to insult customers. I wandered into Phones4U to have a look at some new phones that have recently been released. I have no intention of changing my phone any time [...]

Ok, this is annoying me so much I have to post about it. As mentioned in my previous post I have put a number of things up on eBay. Since doing that last night I have had two questions, both asking me if I would end the auction early for a certain amount. People who [...]

Road charging. This is a hot topic in the UK at the moment. The gov’t have decided that the best way to tackle the problem is to charge us by the mile. And it seems most experts agree. Charges quoted so far are anything up to £1.34 a mile for the most congested roads. I’ve [...]