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    #31
    Originally posted by The GreenFox View Post
    I have less than a week to go. Considering the week notice required i've a) notified the Agent, who is happy but said to see me go blah blah and b) now notified client that due to low work demand and no talk of renewal I have secured a new contract and therefore unavailable for renewal." including usual pleasantries.
    Seems all good then.

    If client had not much work sounds like they werent going to offer anyway.
    Rhyddid i lofnod psychocandy!!!!

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      #32
      Originally posted by psychocandy View Post
      Ha ha. No not really :-)

      I do support/consultancy stuff but its a long way from helpdesk stuff.
      Sounds BAU inside IR35 to me. But glad things are going well.

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        #33
        Originally posted by Old Greg View Post
        Sounds BAU inside IR35 to me. But glad things are going well.
        Ah yes we've had this discussion. And I think the general agreement was "borderline", "not great", "it is what it is"
        Rhyddid i lofnod psychocandy!!!!

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          #34
          Originally posted by psychocandy View Post
          Maybe. But I've seen it happen more than once where they've told contractor, ok so you're off in 3 weeks, tell you what we'll make that one week for you to do the handover.
          Only for total Fisher Price / Numpty stuff surely?
          The Chunt of Chunts.

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            #35
            You don't want to renew and the client seems unlikely to renew.

            So have the conversation but don't even mention renewal. On the Friday before, say that next week is your last week and you want to ensure a clean handover. Discuss the details of the handover and then go, after getting timesheet signed, on the appointed day.

            Everyone happy.

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              #36
              Originally posted by MrMarkyMark View Post
              Only for total Fisher Price / Numpty stuff surely?
              Fisher Price - like it. Yes well lets not get into will waving or "Im more important than you" thing....
              Rhyddid i lofnod psychocandy!!!!

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                #37
                Originally posted by psychocandy View Post
                Fisher Price - like it. Yes well lets not get into will waving or "Im more important than you" thing....
                Wouldn't that be more dead than you?
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                  #38
                  Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
                  Wouldn't that be more dead than you?
                  lol. *willy
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                    #39
                    Handovers are a waste of time anyway, any half decent dev team will ensure that no one has all the knowledge to themselves, and can cope when someone is off, ill or has been hit by a bus, no one is indispensable, they're really just a box ticking exercise to make the manager feel that he's doing something managerish (rather than admitting that his job really just entails signing of timesheets and looking after the holidays spreadsheet )

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                      #40
                      Originally posted by SlipTheJab View Post
                      Handovers are a waste of time anyway, any half decent dev team will ensure that no one has all the knowledge to themselves, and can cope when someone is off, ill or has been hit by a bus, no one is indispensable, they're really just a box ticking exercise to make the manager feel that he's doing something managerish (rather than admitting that his job really just entails signing of timesheets and looking after the holidays spreadsheet )
                      Yep. In a support environment, it doesn't take a week to do a handover anyway.

                      Imagine it - contractor is there 2 months and says hes leaving in a month. Even the best, most knowledgable person in the world will have spent a lot of those 2 months seeing how the end client does things, which servers are which, how things work locally. So client wants him out asap rather than keep showing him stuff for the last month and then start again with new fella. They'd rather get someone in asap hoping they'll stay longer.
                      Rhyddid i lofnod psychocandy!!!!

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