Mars, you seem to be a knowledgeable individual who offers fair and impartial advice. I am currently laboring over a dilemma and would appreciate some advice. If you could send me your contact details to gradneedingadvice@googlemail.com, I would be most grateful.Thanks.

What is your dilemma? This forum is anonymous so you could simply post it on here as you will get responses from many experienced individuals with good advice.

I think we should rename this forum ‘the all singing, all dancing interactive mars questioning program’.

I think that we should rename this forum to "Job Finders & IT Charlatans united"

How about ZB is a d1ck

Haha...definitely a good option. I do enjoy poor little ZB's insecurities. It's either that or a wind up. Either way they make me chuckle, you can't really take the guy seriously. If I ever meet ZB I would give him a hug and tell him everything's going to be alright, and his mummy does really love him, even though she might not offer her teat anymore.

Why is it that periodically a complete tw*t turns up on this forum looking to alienate everyone?

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"Why is it that periodically a complete tw*t turns up on this forum looking to alienate everyone?"mars, i reckon that might be because unfortunately it's an anonymous forum with no user ratings etc...if only t'were not so

Zoinks I think you might reignite the whole debate about user id etc. But obviously the original poster has no inclination to post his/her dilemma on here so ZB is being an ar*e for nothing. Frankly suprised there was not analysis of economic fragility and the forum model in his post...

...or a sly dig at grads/acn!on the topic of user accounts - what happened with the original debate?i don't understand why they're not in place since there are so many resources out there for building forums

What's your issue Mars? I was giving constructive opinion where I feel it is appropriate to do so. Better than the rest of the so called 'IT specialist' do hereZB

What was your constructive opinion ZB? "job finders and IT charlatans united". Yes, very constructive, what a guy. What would you like to be the forum to focus on? I'm looking forward to this one. Maybe, "The forum for spouting big words and bullsh*t for insecure strategy wannabes..united" ??

I don’t think this ZB has captured the true ZB spirit. Not quite analytically evil enough.

Come off it Michael. This forum isn't that anonymous if you do your research.

The anonymity fo this forum needs to be preserved.

I agree. But I do think that others shouldn't use the anonymity to put across points that are deliberately inflammatory. Not yourself Mars, your postings have always been fair and useful.

I have to agree but sometimes I think deliberately inflammatory remarks can be useful in stimulating some heated debate, and for every ZB attacking IT and ACN or people attacking EY BAS others come to the defence. Better to be open, with as little control as necessary, and at times inflammatory than stifled and overtly PC don't you think?

That's true. ZB, or more likely the ZBs, are actually quite funny. I was talking more about cases when juniors come here to seek advice and are sometimes like lambs to the slaughter for the seasoned pros; slated for their ignorance. That's less helpful as they can't really defend themselves.

No they can't, but it can be very amusing though! I suspect much of it is in good humour anyway - but they need to be thick skinned anyway so it's all good prep! Typicallu when the initial fun poking has been concluded everyone gets down to helping the juniors anyway.