Client expectations - first gig

[SeekingIT]

Your Right!!!

You mean all the things a permie would do? Great idea that.

Yea.......

Just sit down, twiddle thumbs, and pervy smile at everyone who looks at you............best way to get noticed and renewed..........

[northernladuk]

Yea.......

Just sit down, twiddle thumbs, and pervy smile at everyone who looks at you............best way to get noticed and renewed..........

There are plenty of options, not all are available at every client and different approaches work at different clients. The above is a possibility... putting yourself inside IR35 isn't an option.. seriously..... Up to you to manage it.

[North887]

Cheers for the replies, much appreciated.

I guess this stuff happens in contracting. It seems to be a delicate balance being a pro active contractor and some office dogsbody that falls withing IR35 though.

[tomtomagain]

Don't worry.

The hiring manager just has some budget he needs to get rid of and has already bought a room full of expensive servers they don't really need.

[Taita]

Careful FAQQer - I'm a man on the edge...

Join the club only try to keep the moans to yourself as the rest of us do.

[No2politics]

Hi

This is my first post after securing my first contract role but I could do with advice.

The role im doing is pretty quiet, as in most of the time im really doing nothing at all. I ask around for stuff but it seems to getting on the nerves of everyone else, im the only contractor. Ive just been told its going to get even quieter and that i should be pro active and find stuff to do there.

However as a contractor I expected that this was the responsibility of the client not me, to find me stuff to do.

Thanks

Why don't you start working from home!?

[BlasterBates]

This is pathetic. I started a permie job a couple of months ago and the expectation was my first feature was to be ready for production after three days, and when I arrived I was given a an "empty PC" and a Linux "Kubuntu" CD, that was after fighting a while with a Debian CD that didn´t have all the device drivers, and the internal help desk didn´t do Linux.

After 2 hours the manager was hassling me why I hadn´t got my skype account sorted....

[d000hg]

If there is no work to do, then the idea of having someone who isn't a permie there is that they don't get paid.

Generally, this is somewhat theoretical.

No it does happen in practise - I've had time off when there was no work to do.

I've even volunteered to do this in the past when a)work wasn't properly planned yet b)I had other things to do. It doesn't normally work but I do have one email somewhere asking me not to work a few days.

[rurffy]

I hate it when work goes really quiet , - FFS!! , i keep looking at the digital numbers by the lower right hand side of my computer screen all Day.