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Honesty/Integrity best policy with agents/clients? Umm nope
To clarify for those saying "dont accept unless you can start"....
I had the call from an agency out of the blue a few days before xmas - I wasnt even looking. They told me about this client. I said no can do no notice period but they convinced me to have a chat anyway. So I did.
No-one was more surprised than me when they offered on the spot. At the time, I did say, Ah Ive got no notice period though. So we had a discussion where I'd negotiate with current client and try and work something out. They said its ok we can wait until Jan 16th anyway. I promised to keep in touch via the agency.
So straight away I spoke to client manager. Of course, nothing moved over xmas. After xmas I spoke to the agency to check its all still good. I asked them to check and let me know if client started to get twitchy about start date.
Last wednesday agency tell me client needs a date and they'd be ok with week after (23rd). So I tell agency ok but let me know if 16th is drop dead date.
So, after a bit of messing around with client management, I tell them sorry I AM leaving to start on the 23rd. Next day agency call me to tell me sorry client has given gig to someone else.
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