Educating your "line manager"

[SueEllen]

Exactly. Acting like a bellend just pisses clients off.

Why not be on internal phone or holiday spreadsheet? Surely, you can be an external resource but still be part of a team?

Be on the internal phone and holiday spreadsheet with a letter or word that denotes you are a contractor after your name.

It's not hard and that's all the guy needed to ask for.

Just means if the client doesn' t have a field for it your family name becomes "Smith (C)" or "Smith (Contractor)"

[psychocandy]

Luckily at my client, email addresses flag up as contractor, as does my ID badge.

[Butcheroo]

Educating your "line manager"

Has anyone managed to get a client to agree to sign up to a confirmation of arrangements doc

Going to try that

[psychocandy]

Hmmm. Got a feeling a lot of clients might say - sod that, cant be arsed. Or at least not know who the person is for doing this.

[kingcook]

Hmmm. Got a feeling a lot of clients might say - sod that, cant be arsed. Or at least not know who the person is for doing this.

The PM at my client did do a confirmation of arrangements, once I explained that it was designed to help us both in the event of HMRC starting an IR35 investigation. We both have the same story to tell and so it could speed up an investigation (and hopefully bring it to a swift close).

However, PM wasn't too keen on handing it in to his HR department with his signature on it! So we both agreed that he can keep it for his own personal records. Might not be perfect but it was better than nothing.