Your policy on overtime?

[BlasterBates]

Yes agreed start arranging appointments, agreeing to meet people, night school, join a gym i.e. get a life. Once you have commitments you won't be staying late and if you do you'll be arguing your case, and hence gaining compensation from the PM as you should be.

[psychocandy]

you just need to be firm and if necessary bull tulip them that you have something to go to (don't say home cause they'll just get jealous)

But really it comes down to how desperate you are for the work. Personally I wouldn't want an extension with a company who insisted that overtime was the norm.

Weekend work I am especially loathe to do given that I usually work away during the week.

If it was working away from home in the office, no way ever.


I dont mind working at the weekend as long as its:-

A) Paid and not free. This includes getting it authorised properly.
B) Done from home.
C) Arranged before 4pm on Friday afternoon.
D) Client doesnt get stroppy if come 4pm on a Friday I tell them I cant because I've got plans for the weekend.

[northernladuk]

If it was working away from home in the office, no way ever.


I dont mind working at the weekend as long as its:-

A) Paid and not free. This includes getting it authorised properly.
B) Done from home.
C) Arranged before 4pm on Friday afternoon.
D) Client doesnt get stroppy if come 4pm on a Friday I tell them I cant because I've got plans for
the weekend.
E) When I have asked CUK if I should work it and they say yes

FTFY

[jonson]

thanks you guys have given me some balls...Anyway the per hour contract was accepted, anything over 40 hours a week is billed per hour. This will be the norm from now on..

The boss in the new place is a bit of a pushover, so I will be putting my fist down each day

The sending emails is a great idea to confirm time, I just got the same idea while walking to lunch...

because of the bank holiday, do you reckon they will try and tell me that it still needs to be a 40 hour week? when it should be 32 hours + extra hours?

[BlasterBates]

....because of the bank holiday, do you reckon they will try and tell me that it still needs to be a 40 hour week? when it should be 32 hours + extra hours?

no, it should just be 32 hours.

[psychocandy]

FTFY

More likely to get decent response from CUK.

[Spacecadet]

The boss in the new place is a bit of a pushover, so I will be putting my fist down each day

There's no need to "put your fist down"
Just come in each day at the same time and leave each day at the same time.

Always make the assumption that YOU are in charge of your time, not the client

[SueEllen]

There's no need to "put your fist down"
Just come in each day at the same time and leave each day at the same time.

Always make the assumption that YOU are in charge of your time, not the client

WHS.


If the client dare asks for you to work longer than just look at the long list of things you can do in your free time which BlasterBates posted and use one of them as why you cannot work longer.