Bailing on notice periods

[SimonMac]

This comes back to the point I have made many times about contractors and notice periods. If the work you were hired to do is complete, why the hell are you still there*. If your contract had zero notice on either side, or the client's at a minimum, and the deliverable is properly described in the schedule of work then you wouldn't be in this position. Notice is for permies, not contractors; apart from knocking lumps out of your IR£5 defence, it damages your ability to find new work.



*Actually I know the answer: the idiot agency can only think in terms of three month chunks and has no concept of delivery. They have sold the client something managed in duration rather than delivery, and will insist on being paid for it regardless of the commercial nonsense it actually represents.

It was the client not the agent hat suggested the extension to end of August, they basically had no confidence in the new provider of the system and wanted a period of time as a retainer in case tulip hit the fan and it needed to be brought back on premises.

At the moment I'm doing the decommissioning of the existing system, but this is pretty much all sorted so it's a case of managing the resources who are doing the work, so can easily be handed over