Now that I find myself in the position of looking for a new contract, I am forced to remember one of the things I despised about contracting: dealing with the agencies who phone up with a potential contract, but all they are actually after is your references. The reason they need your reference is not to check your suitability for the job that they haven’t put you forward for, but to have a contact in the company that you are leaving or have worked for before, so that they can try and get work from them…
The General Babblings of Chris Wild