EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

Seriously? I love NL.

We have real trouble hiring here. We are a proprietary trading firm who generally need technical people. We have a load of peers here who suffer similar difficulties. I don't think you would have any difficulty at all in finding somewhere.

technical people

What kind of technical people?

We are currently actively looking for

• Devops People
  
• Infrastructure Engineers
  
• Trading Analysts
  
  

We also like low latency C++ developers.

Infrastructure Engineers

praat met mij

Some backtracking from the Home Office

Employers will not be expected to differentiate between resident EU citizens and those arriving after exit.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/01/home-office-caroline-nokes-eu-checks-immigration-brexit-employers-right-to-work

^ sounds like a pattern: HO fucks up, backtracking, fucks up something else, backtracking... glad they are taking the complaints serious, but why did it even come up!

https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/journalist/electoral-commission-media-centre/party-and-election-finance-to-keep/arron-banks,-better-for-the-country-and-others-referred-to-the-national-crime-agency-for-multiple-suspected-offences?fbclid=IwAR28OuY7iiaPBmARLxJfFGcyBkzjs39t54ANXXlLE7uPdpkq3jEyksEUTys

Better late than never, anybody else going to crack open a good bottle of drink [whatever there is after Brexit, Scotch maybe?] if this ever comes to a conviction? [that'll take years though]

The highlight of this news is this:

the commission said, saying there were reasonable grounds to suspect that Banks, the insurance millionaire who backed the unofficial leave campaign, was not the “true source” of £8m in loans to it.

I wonder who could have been behind the money then? Surely it couldn't be something to do with those suspiciously favourable business offers from Russia that Banks engaged with in 2016? :D

"putin intensifies"

Or maybe not, Private Eye already mentioned Banks is good at the aul money shuffle and Open Democracy mentioned Saudia Arabia links to the DUP newspaper ad money.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46043668?fbclid=IwAR1cjEFcJFfghH8ZgD9wR_5ZYO7zUH2u0N7IhXRfKvEdpidhcmA4NwjMoZU

Apple doesn't want to allow the HO office settled status app to scan passports, w00ps.

^^

The Home Office has also signed a £91m contract with French company Sopra Steria to set up computer terminals at 56 local libraries around the UK to help those without smartphones, or without the necessary digital skills, to apply to stay in the UK

The good news there is, despite 8 years of Osbourne Austerity the UK still boasts 56 libraries!

Where's Weed Analyst and Shroom Quality Control Engineer roles?

Wish mofos would fly me to California to beg for shit to work.

"Library" is just a phone booth that hasn't been removed that people have left books in.

£91m contract
56 libraries

What will these computers be capable of??

Fast tracking late career consultancies for senior Civil Servants & Tory Junior Minusters.

What will these computers be capable of??

After the French engineers install and test the machines, the machine will tell them to leave the country immediately or else be deported.

It is good they are doing that.

But with 3 million people if say 1 million have an Apple those libraries are going to be...busy :)

You, begging?

I can't picture it somehow :p

Going through my annual CRB check at work atm. Which is normally a very simple process: fill in online form and press the Submit button.
NEW this year, HR need to check my passport and proof of address.
I suspect this has got to do with Brexit and new immigration rules. Anyone else had the same?

It'll probably connect to Minitel.

Minitel

I remember seeing a Minitel terminal in a French hotel room early '98.
csb

Yeah. Every year when I was still a permie. 10 years ago. I don't think this is anything new.

Probably more likely that they want to run you through something like WorldCheck https://risk.thomsonreuters.com/en/products/world-check-know-your-customer/about-world-check.html or similar. A fair few of those systems use name, address and passport number as the input.