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    #11
    Originally posted by acontractor View Post
    Thanks. If my line manager do suspect that I am looking to leave can they make excuses to make me leave?
    Yes they can make up trumped up reasons to get you out but it would take longer to get you out (and cost more) that way then if you left off you own accord.

    Originally posted by acontractor View Post
    Mind you that the company need good people and its struggling to find quality people for my role. (Does not mean I am indispensable though)

    PS Also thinking about emailing agency that I am not looking for work at the moment and remove my details from their database?
    Don't bother you will never be removed unless you get the Information Commissioner on them.

    Then even then the day you put yourself on a job board you will be spammed again,.
    "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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      #12
      Originally posted by acontractor View Post
      Hi,

      I have just been called by a agent sharking for information. Foolishly I gave her all the information (including my manager's name!!) thinking the vacancy was genuine. I am currently in perm. role. Would that agency use my name to contact the agency and would it have any ramifications?

      Thx

      PS hate to admit but I feel like complete idiot.

      I just tell agents;

      current client has a policy that managers cannot speak to agents, has to go to HR
      client has a sole supplier list
      client work is business sensitive so cannot divulge any information

      depending on my mood at the time!
      I couldn't give two fornicators! Yes, really!

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        #13
        I know now and learned my lesson but a bit worried that this might back fire on me...
        One thing might be in my favour that current line manager is off sick at the moment so ....
        Last edited by acontractor; 13 October 2011, 18:49.

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          #14
          Originally posted by acontractor View Post
          Seriously guys. I am worried.
          Oh Dear.

          Nothing we can say will make you feel better.

          Apart from the fact you may be joining us sooner than you expected.

          (Says a numpty who RE'd instead of FW'd earlier in the week. I got away with it though...)
          "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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            #15
            I have to wonder if this is such a big deal and you don't have the sense to understand you situation and kahuna's to deal with it is contracting really for you?

            I can see you getting a slating when you come and start questions about the very basics of contracting...

            God help you when you get terminated with no notice. You are going to be suicidal...

            Bit of jest in this but I seriously wonder.....
            'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!

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              #16
              Originally posted by acontractor View Post
              I know now and learned my lesson but a bit worried that this might back fire on me...
              One thing might be in my favour that current line manager is off sick at the moment so ....
              Come on (wo)man - brazen it out!
              Your manager will have been contacted by many agents in the past and will know how slippery some of them can be.
              If the agent does contact your manager simply say "oh, must have saved my details from the last time I was looking. You know what they are like" etc. Follow up with some banter about how they'll do anything to make a sale. I reckon you'll get away with it, but do not contact the agent again and never, ever use your work email.

              Have I been a contractor too long ...?
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                #17
                Originally posted by Zippy View Post
                Have I been a contractor too long ...?
                No! You are just applying a bit of common sense
                'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!

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                  #18
                  Maybe things have changed, but when I was permie it never did any harm to let them know you were considering other options. Always useful come pay review time.

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by acontractor View Post
                    PS hate to admit but I feel like complete idiot.
                    Yep. For your penitence read this entire thread.

                    Don't worry, nothing will come of it.
                    Free advice and opinions - refunds are available if you are not 100% satisfied.

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by acontractor View Post
                      Here's an email which I am thinking of sending to cover myself
                      If you think the agency is unscupulous enough to drop you in it with your manager in the first place, what make you think that they will accept your request.

                      If anything, it'll just piss them off, so that they will drop you in it purely for spite.

                      Rule number one when in a hole - stop digging...


                      You can't turn back time - there's nothing you can do about it any more, other than be prepared to answer the question from your manager.

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