Warning Signs

[xoggoth]

Most seriously, when you are paid late a couple of times with differing excuses.

[NickFitz]

Client Co is solid, but took over with another company earlier this year.

What I didn't realise when I took the contract, I am working in the office of the company they took over.

This is following the usual trend. Take over goes through. BAU for about 6 months. Then heads begin to roll, just before Christmas.

That was pretty much the situation at the place I was at with the empty desks, though it was only ever a short-term gig anyway.

It was when the receptionist-cum-admin-assistant, who had been at the company since leaving college about six years previously, left for another job that I concluded chances of an extension were slim. She was in a position to be aware of the writing long before it made it to the wall, so if she was getting out while the getting was good…