One week's notice

[noter]

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[stek]

No

[SteelyDan]

Am I right to feel quite cross about this?

No, just suck it up and move on. All part of the territory.

[TheFaQQer]

I have been contracting at a company for more than a year, and since christmas have been on a rolling project on a month by month basis with a promise of a longer contract when new budget comes in for a new project.

Budget came in. Decided not to extend me, with one week left on the current extension. Reason was the work wouldn't be ready for 3 months. Surely they could have told me this weeks ago. I realise contracting carries this risk, within reason, but even so it stings being treated this way and strung along.

Am I right to feel quite cross about this?

Your contract wasn't renewed - that's the nature of contracting. When you get to the end of the contract, you should either be looking before the end, or planning on taking a break at the end and using that time to look for more work.

I don't see it as a risk, even - you knew the contract was due to expire. You had plenty of chance to look for something else, but instead assumed that it was going to continue.

You are right to feel cross with yourself for not realising that you were coming to the end of the contract and so there was a chance that you might not be extended regardless of what people had "promised". You don't have any right to feel cross with the client for not making a decision until they knew what the reality of the situation was, and making their choice not to renew.

[psychocandy]

I have been contracting at a company for more than a year, and since christmas have been on a rolling project on a month by month basis with a promise of a longer contract when new budget comes in for a new project.

Budget came in. Decided not to extend me, with one week left on the current extension. Reason was the work wouldn't be ready for 3 months. Surely they could have told me this weeks ago. I realise contracting carries this risk, within reason, but even so it stings being treated this way and strung along.

Am I right to feel quite cross about this?

Nope. Thats the way it works sometimes.

Unfair and crappy way to treat people maybe but sometimes it defies belief how piss poor organised some companies are.

I was at client for over 2 years. They constantly fannyed about every extension. I'd hear every story in the book.

At the end, they said they had a big project and I was in for months. I took a week off at birth of my daughter. Came back with one week left expecting a long contract to be sorted.

Got an email from manager (who worked different site to be fair) - congrats on birth of your daugher and sorry but we can't extend any more. Did think two separate emails would have been kinder!

[noter]

Nope. Thats the way it works sometimes.

Unfair and crappy way to treat people maybe but sometimes it defies belief how piss poor organised some companies are.

I was at client for over 2 years. They constantly fannyed about every extension. I'd hear every story in the book.

At the end, they said they had a big project and I was in for months. I took a week off at birth of my daughter. Came back with one week left expecting a long contract to be sorted.

Got an email from manager (who worked different site to be fair) - congrats on birth of your daugher and sorry but we can't extend any more. Did think two separate emails would have been kinder!

Ouch!

[TestMangler]

Nope. Thats the way it works sometimes.

<snip> Did think two separate emails would have been kinder!

That must have been a surprise

[northernladuk]

Nope. Thats the way it works sometimes.

Unfair and crappy way to treat people maybe but sometimes it defies belief how piss poor organised some companies are.

No it's not (on the most part). It's business and all part of being a flexible resource that's bottom of the pecking order when it comes to budget and work. If you think that is unfair and crappy you shouldn't be contracting. Would you throw extra budget and bend over backwards for your suppliers when you don't need them? I doubt it.
Despite what you think clients aren't out to get you, hate you or purposely try and make your life a misery for fun.

[northernladuk]

Am I right to feel quite cross about this?

No.

The rolling month for a year alone should have been enough indication that it was likely to end like this.

[TykeMerc]

Rolling monthly contract, you've in effect had a months notice and simply not been renewed.

You can feel at most a bit disappointed, but that's the contracting game for you.