Travel expenses for on site interview

[TheDandy]

How about asking the agency to cover the cost?
Or just asking them for a refund, if i'm not succed?

Is this reasonable/conveinent? My problem is that I'm taking all the risk here.

Harsh reality of being in business for one's self. You aren't in fact the one taking all the risk. It may look like that because you are footing the cost of the travel, but that's one part of the overall process. Try not to think of it as an interview, rather part of your pre-sales pitch, and an opportunity to suss out the client.

[TykeMerc]

You're a business ffs, its all about risk.

Actually it's a sockpuppet, all past posts have been similarly numb in nature with absurd responses to answers given.

If it wasn't a sockie my response would be along the lines of "your costs to get to interview are sales costs of running your business, if you don't like it then you shouldn't try out contracting".

[SpontaneousOrder]

- No, if someone asked me for a Skype after i requested a F2F there CV would be filed in the bin.

I reckon most decent candidates wouldn't want to work for you knowing you felt like that, anyway.

[tarbera]

how so.?

I reckon most decent candidates wouldn't want to work for you knowing you felt like that, anyway.

you are my paid project resource, not my buddy, I dont want to here about your kids, I want you to do the role you are contracted to do, nothing more nothing less.

No one has left my project so far 250+ resources

[eek]

I reckon most decent candidates wouldn't want to work for you knowing you felt like that, anyway.

I would like to know the person I am using can work with other people in the office. The only way to do that would be to meet them in person...

[GillsMan]

you are my paid project resource, not my buddy, I dont want to here about your kids, I want you to do the role you are contracted to do, nothing more nothing less.

No one has left my project so far 250+ resources

Tbf, I'm not sure I would want to work with someone who a) had that attitude, and b) couldn't spell "their" or "hear".

[tarbera]

Thank Dog for that

Tbf, I'm not sure I would want to work with someone who a) had that attitude, and b) couldn't spell "their" or "hear".

you probably have a permie mindset- hence why you would fail the F2F discussion (not interview)

Ps.
Im also dyslexic so somtimes I mix some words up a bit, but sorry you cant work with people who can't spell, it says a lot about your personal values

[GillsMan]

you probably have a permie mindset- hence why you would fail the F2F discussion (not interview)

Ps.
Im also dyslexic so somtimes I mix some words up a bit, but sorry you cant work with people who can't spell, it says a lot about your personal values

Hi Tarbera - I'd like you to introduce you to this: It's called an emoticon and can be used to dictate tone on a message forum. I think this one, with its slightly cheeky expression (shown by the fact the tongue is poking out) makes it clear that I wasn't being entirely serious.

You're right about the permie mindset though. Which I think is evidenced by the fact that I travel every day to the same location (the office which my LtdCo rents), hold performance reviews (for my two permanent full time members of staff), worry about contract wording (on the contracts I wrote, for my (currently) five concurrent clients with which we are direct), ask members of my team whether I can go on holiday before booking with it through the same portal we all use to track holidays (the team which I employ, and the portal which my LtdCo pays for) ... shall I go on?

To the point at hand, my one semi-serious point is that if someone asked me to come for a face-to-face meeting in, say, Germany, and I asked whether Skype would be OK to save on travelling costs, and they just pulled out on principle, despite the fact it's not an unreasonable question to ask, I'd probably think, "oh well, at least I'm not working with that borderline arse". Not calling you an arse by the way. Look, here's a safety winky --->

[TykeMerc]

you are my paid project resource, not my buddy, I dont want to here about your kids, I want you to do the role you are contracted to do, nothing more nothing less.

No one has left my project so far 250+ resources

I don't believe for a millisecond that you manage 1 resource let alone 250.

I certainly wouldn't work for you, I'd be unable to resist the urge to throttle you in revenge for the abuse you do to the written word.

This is a professional forum, not a home for fools that think txtspk works as a means of communication.

[cojak]

Yes, it is a professional forum, and dyslexia is one of those things that we have to work with.

And I had some news regarding gabox01, but if you want to start squabbling amongst yourselves and getting banned go right ahead...