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Want out ... but can't find a termination clause!

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    Want out ... but can't find a termination clause!

    I recently started with a new agency and contract.
    I'm just over a week in and have been offered a much better job, different agency and company, closer to where my partner works (around 200 miles away).

    Re-reading my contract - both the agency and their client appear to have 1 week termination clauses. I appear to have *nothing*!

    It's a three month contract! Any suggestions on how to exit quickly and cleanly if the agency and client are sticky on this?

    #2
    Originally posted by srd View Post
    I recently started with a new agency and contract.
    I'm just over a week in and have been offered a much better job, different agency and company, closer to where my partner works (around 200 miles away).

    Re-reading my contract - both the agency and their client appear to have 1 week termination clauses. I appear to have *nothing*!

    It's a three month contract! Any suggestions on how to exit quickly and cleanly if the agency and client are sticky on this?
    Give the agency a reason to terminate your contract. You are an intelligent sockpuppet, so work it out.
    If your company is the best place to work in, for a mere £500 p/d, you can advertise here.

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      #3
      Smacking the PM always helps..

      ..as does reading the contract.



      (I'm wth pmeswani on this one...)
      "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
      - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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        #4
        Originally posted by cojak View Post
        Smacking the PM always helps..

        ..as does reading the contract.



        (I'm wth pmeswani on this one...)
        Smaking the PM is good. If the PM is female, aim for the lower half of the body, if it i s a bloke, aim for the nose.
        If your company is the best place to work in, for a mere £500 p/d, you can advertise here.

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          #5
          Originally posted by cojak View Post
          Smacking the PM always helps..

          ..as does reading the contract.



          (I'm wth pmeswani on this one...)
          Some inventive ways to give notice

          * Download and watch some porn - should do the trick
          * Ask a load of stupid questions that a 1st year grad should be able to answer - always winds up permie's.
          * Generally discuss about how many systems you've trashed in the past.
          * Talk about your crossdressing fetish and how you plan to turn up in a dress and heels next week (although there is the danger they may be fine with that )

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            #6
            Turn up every day at 11, unshaven, without deoderant, and half bottle of whiskey in the pocket of your dirty and stained coat. Drink the rest of the bottle while at work.

            Repeat.

            At one, site, such a contractor was asked not to come back - after doing this for two weeks!
            Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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              #7
              You could try one or more of the above ideas, or simply tell the agency and client that it's not working out and you will be leaving. Don't have to give real reason. No client wants a sulky, miserable git on their project after all.

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                #8
                Agency mistake

                Re-reading my contract - both the agency and their client appear to have 1 week termination clauses. I appear to have *nothing*!

                I would take this to mean that you need 0 days notice. The agency must have c*cked up. Normally contracts are one sided as contractors need to give a longer notice period than the client.

                Getting paid if you don't come back monday morning may become a problem.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by centurian View Post
                  Some inventive ways to give notice

                  * Download and watch some porn - should do the trick
                  * Ask a load of stupid questions that a 1st year grad should be able to answer - always winds up permie's.
                  * Generally discuss about how many systems you've trashed in the past.
                  * Talk about your crossdressing fetish and how you plan to turn up in a dress and heels next week (although there is the danger they may be fine with that )

                  Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
                  Turn up every day at 11, unshaven, without deoderant, and half bottle of whiskey in the pocket of your dirty and stained coat. Drink the rest of the bottle while at work.

                  Repeat.

                  At one, site, such a contractor was asked not to come back - after doing this for two weeks!


                  I do all of those now. Nobody has sacked me.
                  How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.

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                    #10
                    This is common in IBM contracts. They expect you to complete the course of the project, just like you'd expect a builder to.
                    And the lord said unto John; "come forth and receive eternal life." But John came fifth and won a toaster.

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