Contract Issues / Notice Periods

[billybiro]

Unless you're working on a discrete piece of code that has been completed and checked in, then it tends to be a bit more than an "inconvenience". A new contractor has to be sourced, brought up to speed with requirements, and then possibly will restart whatever has already been done. This all costs time and money.

But this applies whether the contractor ups and leaves you in the lurch or whether you (the client) marches the contractor off site without notice simply because you want rid of them quick.

Funny how clients only ever moan about this "expense" and "inconvenience" when it's the contractor forcing their hand and not when the client does this to themselves.