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    #11
    Originally posted by DealorNoDeal View Post
    So, you use cash then?
    My first few contracts were pretty much cash based, send the timesheet in and get a check back in the post, cash it at the bank and off to the hookers and cocaine club. That was when contractors were real contractors, none of this namby-pamby IR35, MSC, umbrella bollocks
    Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.

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      #12
      Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
      My first few contracts were pretty much cash based, send the timesheet in and get a check back in the post, cash it at the bank and off to the hookers and cocaine club. That was when contractors were real contractors, none of this namby-pamby IR35, MSC, umbrella bollocks
      Me too. There were certain agencies (<cough>intelect</cough>) that would also pay in brown envelopes on certain occasions.

      Other agencies that would fly you to the South of France for an interview, put you up in a hotel and pay for the hire car, just to attend an interview - I got a 2 year contract on the strength of that.
      Last edited by Zigenare; 29 October 2019, 18:47.
      Old Greg - In search of acceptance since Mar 2007. Hoping each leap will be his last.

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        #13
        Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
        My first few contracts were pretty much cash based, send the timesheet in and get a check back in the post,
        IR35 must have hit the scarecrow sector pretty badly, all that restrictive "disguised employee" stuff and all.

        Still, maybe the Germans view your skills more benignly.

        “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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          #14
          Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
          IR35 must have hit the scarecrow sector pretty badly, all that restrictive "disguised employee" stuff and all.

          Still, maybe the Germans view your skills more benignly.

          Mr. Intelligent has been let out to play on the computer again
          Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.

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            #15
            Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
            IR35 must have hit the scarecrow sector pretty badly, all that restrictive "disguised employee" stuff and all.

            Still, maybe the Germans view your skills more benignly.

            Not as much as the Indians viewed yours
            Hard Brexit now!
            #prayfornodeal

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