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If you are confident of getting another contract I would be tempted to wind your current one down and find something else as it is obviously has a limited shelf life and you are not that keen on doing the training.
Glad to see UK PLC is bringing in qualified resources to plug a skills gap. Oh wait, they are bringing in unskilled resources and expecting you to train them before you leave.
OP walk away ASAP if you can land another role. Your 6-9 months remaining contract length will not be honoured once the new resource are even able to do a fraction of what you do now. Seen this happen so many times as well the 6-9 months is just the end clients insurance policy they will already have discussed your contract remaining length as the new resource are most likely being subsidised by the outsourcer until they can replace you!
Disagree totally. We are not in business to create competitors, especially ones that are going to undercut our rates. If your client wants to take on people with no skills in the job, that's their concern; it's not up to you to convert them.
Personally I wouldn't worry about upping your rate if there's other work reliably out there. Just say no and walk away as soon as you can; you'll be out in a matter of months anyway.
Totally agree (for once!). It pisses me off no end when clients try to do this. 'Oh, can you just train these excessive cheap bods in your hard to find \ premium rate skill so we can bin you off and have excessively cheapo bods do your job instead?'
There's a difference between training people how to use their own systems but asking contractors to cross train their bods in your specialism \ skills is entirely different.
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