Playing the game with the Bean Counter

[Turion]

Forget this beans bollox. You should know rate for the job, so if you've been rippin'em of take the cut and shut you know it makes sense man.

Answer: you done good, now go back to permie land.

[Diver]

Are we talking embezzlement/fraud here?

Make absolutely sure that you get it in Writing & Signed from/by Director buddy before you give him an invoice for 5 days after working only 4

We are not going to visit you in Nick, nor will we send you Vaseline and KY jelly

[wantacontract]

I think you should start asking for real money, beans will get you nowhere.

Thats a good one...

if it was me. I would take it....current business climate means I would avoid downtime where possible....

[morsing]

Given that you do in 4 days what the other guys do in 10, you're already half price.

Excuse me?!?!?

[minstrel]

Are we talking embezzlement/fraud here?

Make absolutely sure that you get it in Writing & Signed from/by Director buddy before you give him an invoice for 5 days after working only 4

We are not going to visit you in Nick, nor will we send you Vaseline and KY jelly

That did cross my mind.

The amount of hours I work should be none of the client's business.

The way I look at it I'm a business providing a service for 3 months worth 240 beans.

This is broken down into stage payments that equate to 4 beans per day to fit with the clients invoicing process.

Whether or not I'm physically on site every day doing anything shouldn't matter to the client as long as I deliver what I said I would by the agreed deadline.

And just because I'm not in the office sending emails on the 5th day who's to say I'm not working?

Perhaps I've decided that the most effective to work is to have one day a week where I'm away from the office with no emails or phone calls. I then sit in the pub all day contemplating the technical solution to the problem of the day. If thinking is working, how can anyone prove I'm not thinking and therefore not working on the 5th day?

I've got a fairly flexible working relationship with my client already which means I can work from home as much as I want - normally 1 or 2 days a week.

As long as Director matey is happy with what I'm doing I don't see a legal problem.

[MikeC1984]

I'd jack it in an get a job in tesco.... plenty of beans there :P