Client terminating without notice

[amoeba]

Contract cancelled due to Budget reasons (large well known Investment Bank). Been in contract for just over 6 months, current extensions was due to run out at the end of the year.

I assumed I was out of luck, but nice to get clarification.

[Scrag Meister]

Contract cancelled due to Budget reasons (large well known Investment Bank). Been in contract for just over 6 months, current extensions was due to run out at the end of the year.

I assumed I was out of luck, but nice to get clarification.

Which IB?

Incase its where I am . I know there was a large contractor review started a month or so back.

P.M. me if you prefer.

I would invoice the agency anyway, gotta be worth a stamp and a piece of paper or an email. even if you write it off in your head, may come to some arrangement. Unlikely but you never know unless you try.

[prozak]

No it isn't.

But I would also trying billing them just as a way of sticking the knife in and reminding agents they can't get away with this crap.

Um. yes it is! In my experience anyway.

I'm talking a full blown consulting company not a small player like what we do, of which I have worked in the past and run a practice.

We always had terms in there if the client decided to cancel suddenly.

[northernladuk]

Um. yes it is! In my experience anyway.I'm talking a full blown consulting company not a small player like what we do, of which I have worked in the past and run a practice.

We always had terms in there if the client decided to cancel suddenly.

It would be nice if you made this clearer in your original post. It makes a whole world of difference as it appears you have been lucky in your experiences.

Keep an eye on this board and you will see we have a regular stream of people being finished without notice.

[prozak]

It would be nice if you made this clearer in your original post. It makes a whole world of difference as it appears you have been lucky in your experiences.

Keep an eye on this board and you will see we have a regular stream of people being finished without notice.

Yes. But my point is it was with a large consulting firm. Not a ltd co contractor.

I'm sure contractor / small consulting firms get stiffed all the time.

[malvolio]

Yes. But my point is it was with a large consulting firm. Not a ltd co contractor.

I'm sure contractor / small consulting firms get stiffed all the time.

Stiffed?

We sell flexibility in resourcing, it's what we do. Deliver needed skills as long as neccessary then vanish. Expecting compensation for delivering what you're being paid to do in the first place only means that you either don't understand your own market or you really should stay permanent. It's painful, of course, but it's what we do. Adn, more importantly, what our clients expect us to do.

[northernladuk]

Yes. But my point is it was with a large consulting firm. Not a ltd co contractor.

I'm sure contractor / small consulting firms get stiffed all the time.

Again, a point not made in your original statement.

[prozak]

Stiffed?

We sell flexibility in resourcing, it's what we do. Deliver needed skills as long as neccessary then vanish. Expecting compensation for delivering what you're being paid to do in the first place only means that you either don't understand your own market or you really should stay permanent. It's painful, of course, but it's what we do. Adn, more importantly, what our clients expect us to do.

Yes stiffed.

Every contract I have had has a notice period. if it was cancelled on the spot just because the client changed their mind I would expect something.
Just as you cannot cancel on the spot without p___ing your customers off.

you live in a funny world if you think contracts are worth nothing. What is the point of them then? Why bother putting a notice period in a contract?

[prozak]

Again, a point not made in your original statement.

but made in my second post and then my third.

[malvolio]

Yes stiffed.

Every contract I have had has a notice period. if it was cancelled on the spot just because the client changed their mind I would expect something.
Just as you cannot cancel on the spot without p___ing your customers off.

you live in a funny world if you think contracts are worth nothing. What is the point of them then? Why bother putting a notice period in a contract?

I don't, actually, for the reasons explained earlier. I don't have one on the curent gig, as it happens. If they want to give me one, then fine. But then I don't sit at a desk churning "stuff" out, I deliver things and when those things are delivered I get out.

Notice periods are for permies. End of.