Terminating Contract Early

[FatLazyContractor]

And yes, before someone quotes me out of context, we are talking about long term sickness here. Not sitting at home with a cold worrying about the flowers at ones funeral.

[psychocandy]

I've never walked in 18 years of contracting and as long as I'm happy I treat the current ClientCo as the man in possession i.e. they get first call on my services if they want me to stay over a possible new contract.

Long time ago I was at a ClientCo away from home all week with a young family back home. When my contract ended and was asked to extend for another 3 months I was up front with them and said I was looking to get something closer to home so was going to leave although I didn't have anything lined up. The client said they would make it a rolling 4 week contract so as long as I gave them 4 weeks notice it wouldn't be a problem. I accepted the terms and eventually got another contract in a project that was well planned ahead so they could wait the 4 weeks for me.

I would always be upfront with the client and you never know, honesty could pay dividends.

So if a client asks you to extend you feel obliged to if they want you to?
Thats even worse. Im sorry but if offered I'll extend if I want to - nothing else.
This really is nuts - you have no obligations whatsoever at the end of a contract term either legally or morally.

But I do agree about being upfront. One of my best contracts was the worse paid. Manager knew the score and was good as gold and knew that contractors werent going to stay.

[northernladuk]

Disagree. You're never gonna need a doctors note. Only permies need these because its in their contract of employment.

Not saying it wouldnt help you though if it all went off/got legal.

But imagine it. You sue xyz train company for breach because they cancelled the train and you missed a flight and it cost you £1000s. You demand train company produces sick note for driver? Not going to happen.

Would it be possible for you to come up with a worse scenario which has absolutely **** all bearing on the situation please?

[northernladuk]

Who are you in it for then? If thats the case then why not work for a charity pro bono?

Sorry but I'm in it for my family. No-one else.

You can still be in it for the family and act professionally. I slightly agree a rate hike like that would certainly have me thinking hard about moving. It's a bit of an extreme example though so muddying the argument. More realistically is a 10-50 a day hike which is enough for some mercenaries to bail and others to stay

[northernladuk]

Hence the conjunction "but" after the quote you selectively posted.

Why can't you and NLUK accept some of us do things differently and your that your opinion is not the gospel contractor scripture?

Probably down to your tolling and unprofessionalism. Tends to wind people up, particularly when others either have to deal with the fall out or get judged by it.

[Unix]

Probably down to your tolling and unprofessionalism. Tends to wind people up, particularly when others either have to deal with the fall out or get judged by it.

I admit I am not the epitome of professionalism whereas you pretend to be while spending all day on here.

[GlenW]

[northernladuk]

I admit I am not the epitome of professionalism whereas you pretend to be while spending all day on here.

Am just saying like. Would be the same on any professional forum I'd say. If you had some bent copper on the police forums advertising his unprofessional attitude to his job he'd get a lot of stick as well. Am sure if they had some gobby bastard that couldn't help replying to every thread but knows next to nothing like me he wouldn't be popular either. It's not personal... well it is but you know what I mean.

It's the way it is.

[psychocandy]

I admit I am not the epitome of professionalism whereas you pretend to be while spending all day on here.

Like me but then I take it on the chin that sometimes I'm a skiving dog lol.

[psychocandy]

Am just saying like. Would be the same on any professional forum I'd say. If you had some bent copper on the police forums advertising his unprofessional attitude to his job he'd get a lot of stick as well. Am sure if they had some gobby bastard that couldn't help replying to every thread but knows next to nothing like me he wouldn't be popular either. It's not personal... well it is but you know what I mean.

It's the way it is.

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