There seems to be confusion here. I think possibly when I said the "normal office" is the one I'm expected to go to. I meant that was the office I'd only ever been to; Manchester wasn't a new location I was being asked to visit. My contract makes no specific mention of where or how the services I provide are to be provided. Not one clause or paragraph in the contract states that I have to be "on-site" at the client co to provide services, nor does it even have the clients office address on any of the pages. It merely states that they expect 8 hours of effort from me each day, for which I log time on their system with corresponding evidence of commits to the repository or other documentation. It was the agent who said I was contracted to work "on-site" and this was only after he called me with a prompt from the Director of Operations because I refused to work for free last night.
Second, I was always taking Friday off before I got canned. They know this. The project is being handed off to the client, today, for the purposes of testing. As of tomorrow, there is no work to be done; phase 1 of the project is complete. The request from the DoO is punitive. Not to mention this is a guy who, from the get go, has been aggrieved that the Technical Director and PM were happy for me to work from home. The technical director, (nice guy), has been on holiday since Monday and isn't available to put this tool right.
As for the weather, rain doesn't really bother me. But when they've given the weather a name, Storm Barbara, and are issuing warnings to expect severe flooding, structural damage and severe delays in the North West then I start to take a bit more notice. The M62 is a vile motorway in only mildly bad weather; I personally am not prepared to take a risk that I'll be stranded, injured or killed - and every weekend I see at least 3 major accidents on that road without a bloody named storm blowing.
He might refuse to sign my time sheet for not coming in, but since there is no obligation on my part to work in the office I don't see how they could refuse on that basis. They can't argue that they're unhappy with the work since I have countless emails saying "good work" and "great idea" and "thanks". Not to mention correspondence asking me to work, for free, to help them out.
Second, I was always taking Friday off before I got canned. They know this. The project is being handed off to the client, today, for the purposes of testing. As of tomorrow, there is no work to be done; phase 1 of the project is complete. The request from the DoO is punitive. Not to mention this is a guy who, from the get go, has been aggrieved that the Technical Director and PM were happy for me to work from home. The technical director, (nice guy), has been on holiday since Monday and isn't available to put this tool right.
As for the weather, rain doesn't really bother me. But when they've given the weather a name, Storm Barbara, and are issuing warnings to expect severe flooding, structural damage and severe delays in the North West then I start to take a bit more notice. The M62 is a vile motorway in only mildly bad weather; I personally am not prepared to take a risk that I'll be stranded, injured or killed - and every weekend I see at least 3 major accidents on that road without a bloody named storm blowing.
He might refuse to sign my time sheet for not coming in, but since there is no obligation on my part to work in the office I don't see how they could refuse on that basis. They can't argue that they're unhappy with the work since I have countless emails saying "good work" and "great idea" and "thanks". Not to mention correspondence asking me to work, for free, to help them out.
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