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Don’t Feed the Beast – the Great Recruitment Agency Infestation

“Don’t move to that London” warned my northern grandfather once. “It’s full of spivs”.

The Oxford Dictionary (somewhat chauvinistically) defines a spiv as:

A man, typically a flashy dresser, who makes a living by disreputable dealings

“But I work in IT” I told him. “engineers aren’t like that”.

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