Leaving contract early

[Wilmslow]

Has anyone actually done it? Often talked about here. I am giving it consideration. My notice period is 28 days, their notice is 7 days – which complicates matters somewhat.

Politics are too rampant, I am working with some disturbed people, eg this mornings rant from a colleague about the whiteboard. I am needing to worry more about my sanity than the day rate. Scott Adams would have a field day here.

I have a quality process that was agreed, but the said process has been ignored, resulting in non-achievance of what were already challenging dates, and a rack of problems that should have been managed early getting ignored and problems compounded. I have an excellent relationship with the business and user community, but having serious challenges with a poisonous programme manager who just wants me to accept all his problems without listening.

Need to decide if I can be bothered to deal with matters or to just walk. Which will be a slow walk at 28 days.....

Maybe I just need a day off and a reboot. Or a pot noodle.

[LondonManc]

Has anyone actually done it? Often talked about here. I am giving it consideration. My notice period is 28 days, their notice is 7 days – which complicates matters somewhat.

Politics are too rampant, I am working with some disturbed people, eg this mornings rant from a colleague about the whiteboard. I am needing to worry more about my sanity than the day rate. Scott Adams would have a field day here.

I have a quality process that was agreed, but the said process has been ignored, resulting in non-achievance of what were already challenging dates, and a rack of problems that should have been managed early getting ignored and problems compounded. I have an excellent relationship with the business and user community, but having serious challenges with a poisonous programme manager who just wants me to accept all his problems without listening.

Need to decide if I can be bothered to deal with matters or to just walk. Which will be a slow walk at 28 days.....

Maybe I just need a day off and a reboot. Or a pot noodle.

Man up and raise any deviations from the agreed path.

If you have a risk register/issue log/RAID log, use them.

[northernladuk]

I would suggest that.. Oh it's Wilmslow.. Forget that.

[DimPrawn]

Wilmslooooooooooooooooooow!

[FatLazyContractor]

The actual question is AYCOTBAC?

[FatLazyContractor]

Maybe I just need a day off and a reboot. Or a pot noodle.

Winstons massage parlour in Manchester

[Wilmslow]

Winstons massage parlour in Manchester

How does Winstons compare to Sandys Superstars? I don't see it on Punternet.

[billybiro]

Man up and raise any deviations from the agreed path.

If you have a risk register/issue log/RAID log, use them.

WTF?

The "manning up" thing to do here is to walk. Walk immediately. When the client hits you with a breach-of-contract lawsuit, you file a breach-of-contract counter-suit for the procedures etc. that haven't been followed (you do have them contractualised, don't you?)

Yes, we all know that you're burning bridges and all that, but look at it like this. You're burning bridges with an insane client that you don't ever want a bridge with in the first place, so nothing lost.

Or, you could do what LondonManc suggests, which is the exact opposite of "manning up" and is more akin to bending over and lubing up your own backside like some bedwetting doormat in indentured servitude.

[AtW]

The "manning up" thing to do here is to walk. Walk immediately. When the client hits you with a breach-of-contract lawsuit, you file a breach-of-contract counter-suit for the procedures etc. that haven't been followed (you do have them contractualised, don't you?)

You must be new here and don't know Wilmslow as well as we do ....

[LondonManc]

WTF?

The "manning up" thing to do here is to walk. Walk immediately. When the client hits you with a breach-of-contract lawsuit, you file a breach-of-contract counter-suit for the procedures etc. that haven't been followed (you do have them contractualised, don't you?)

Yes, we all know that you're burning bridges and all that, but look at it like this. You're burning bridges with an insane client that you don't ever want a bridge with in the first place, so nothing lost.

Or, you could do what LondonManc suggests, which is the exact opposite of "manning up" and is more akin to bending over and lubing up your own backside like some bedwetting doormat in indentured servitude.

Nonsense. If there was an agreed process in work and someone didn't follow it, you'd walk? That's not manning up, that's dummy spitting and cutting off your nose to spite your face.

If you're working on a project and process isn't being followed, which is jeopardising delivery, do you walk off site or do you raise it? You must have manned up and walked off site a few times.