Hiring Americans in the U.K.
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- Goatlamb
Wife was recently offered a job in Cambridge. Wondering what you folks across the pond know about UK agencys' policies on hiring American designers. Are we given a fair shot, or bottom of the barrell.
Any good UK bands looking for a jazz/funk drummer? :)
TIA.
- ********0
Mind where you put your Z's n S's and you'll be fine.
- -sputnik-0
we just opened our UK office in cambridge...good place.
don't think i'd want to live there, though
- k0na_an0k0
i wouldn't hire you you american bastard.
- -sputnik-0
good thing i'm not american, you you smelly javascript breaker on firefox you!
- paraselene0
it's even been known to happen that they'll hire americans who are still in america!
yes, and even sort out their visas for them.
but i do think they tend to regret it afterwards.
- ********0
more so when they dont turn up to work on time, and when they do they reek of gin....
- k0na_an0k0
i broke your javascript?? how did that happen?
- jevad0
cambridge is a lovely little city. You could do much worse! Beautiful countryside...*sniff*
If your wife has a job there you will be eligible to work and therefore not a pain in the ass to hire...ergo....hassle free...good luck!
- shotoshi0
It's official: there are only 2 good UK bands right now and neither of them play jazz/funk but both of them already have drummers.
- ********0
IMO, it's a global economy, what's the difference. There is a MASSIVE double-standard. The US has opened it's doors for years and years. If a Yank, including myself in the past, wants to and is qualified to work outside the US, so be it. :)
- ********0
Hmm. But 51% of UK people aren't dumb.
- ********0
But seriously, the chances are the same as me getting the job. No different as far as I can see.
- shotoshi0
as someone who has been self-employed for a very long time I have come to the conclusion that jobs are for losers!
don't do it, you know it makes sense but yet you still hand out yer see-fucking-vees
You get all you deserve ;-)
- paraselene0
precisely. if you're right for the project/job, then the employer will know it and act accordingly. hell, i'm a disaster - i've been deported once and i don't have any professional training and next to no experience - and someone's already tried to poach me. visa claptrap notwithstanding.
mothie, you know i'm a tequila girl...
- shotoshi0
poached tequila girls?,
hmmm....
- ********0
mothie, you know i'm a tequila girl...
paraselene
(Dec 10 04, 09:21)Sorry.
I got you confused with Soda.
Sorry again.
- paraselene0
i wuz saying precisely to moth not to you, mr shotoshi.
i bet that's the last time you miss nt london drinx!
but that is perhaps the best solution. come over the pond and try your hand as a freelancer.
- shotoshi0
hey, that's OK... thought it was an open forum... I'm a dumb ass sometimes ;-)
Freelancing? I don't do that. No need. Freeloading? now there's another story.
- paraselene0
i didn't mean it like that! i just noticed that when you read the thread it looks like i was agreeing with your "jobs are for losers" post (which, in some ways, i do) so i thought i'd clarify. sorry if it came over stroppy!
can we hug?
- shotoshi0
and another thing, freelancing is for losers but higher up the totem pole than job seekers.