Leaving for better money

[KentDogWalker]

What is your thoughts of giving your notice before your contract ends for a gig paying 28% more?

[Paralytic]

All other things being equal, and assuming no long-term relationship exists/is wanted with the existing client, why would a business not switch to work with a new client paying 28% more than a previous client?

Anyone thinking otherwise is thinking and/or acting like an employee, not a business.

[Whorty]

All other things being equal, and assuming no long-term relationship exists/is wanted with the existing client, why would a business not switch to work with a new client paying 28% more than a previous client?

Anyone thinking otherwise is thinking and/or acting like an employee, not a business.

I'm not saying you're right, or wrong, but how would you feel if you had a builder in, doing an extension for you on a 6 month contract, then they gave you notice because someone else had offered them 28% more to work on their extension instead.

Sometimes it's about making the correct moral decision too.

[SimonMac]

1. Is money your only objective whilst contracting?
2. Is the new contract signed and you've got your bum on a seat?

If the answer to both is yes then go for it

[vetran]

I'm not saying you're right, or wrong, but how would you feel if you had a builder in, doing an extension for you on a 6 month contract, then they gave you notice because someone else had offered them 28% more to work on their extension instead.

Sometimes it's about making the correct moral decision too.

You mean they have been hired for a defined project to complete? There should be penalty clauses in the contract if that is what is intended.

This sounds like a day labourer.

You know the client would drop you like a hot potato if they found someone 28% cheaper?

Its a business relationship the only moral decisions are where the client is not obeying the law (do you report, run away or stay and take the filthy lucre?) or working in the best interests of the world.

[northernladuk]

What is your thoughts of giving your notice before your contract ends for a gig paying 28% more?

Depends. Thinking about your current gig. Do you enjoy the work you are doing now? Does the current gig have legs? Are you working on something CV enhancing? Could you be asked back in the future? Any extra benefits I might not have put here?

And the new gig. Is it interesting work? Expected duration? Useful tech? etc

And then I'd make a decision. it's not purely about the money for me and sometimes it's better the devil you know.

[Paralytic]

I'm not saying you're right, or wrong, but how would you feel if you had a builder in, doing an extension for you on a 6 month contract, then they gave you notice because someone else had offered them 28% more to work on their extension instead.

Sometimes it's about making the correct moral decision too.

I'd not sign a contract with a builder where they could give notice part-way through the job. The contract would be for stage payments as work progresses, with a final payment on completion meaning they'd be out of pocket if they left early.

Interestingly, review any local facebook group, and you'll probably see posts from people whose builders have left part way through a job for a better gig and where they're looking for someone to pick up the work.

[northernladuk]

You know the client would drop you like a hot potato if they found someone 28% cheaper?

Its a business relationship the only moral decisions are where the client is not obeying the law (do you report, run away or stay and take the filthy lucre?) or working in the best interests of the world.

I don't believe that at all. Once you are in they don't carry on recruiting. I am sure if they auctioned the role off someone would come in cheaper just to get off the bench but they don't so I'd say that's wholly wrong.

And chasing the dollar isn't the one and only thing in business. If it was then business would be pure anarchy.

I think you've a very blinkered view there which has leads you to saying things that are just not true at all.

[KentDogWalker]

Depends. Thinking about your current gig. Do you enjoy the work you are doing now? Does the current gig have legs? Are you working on something CV enhancing? Could you be asked back in the future? Any extra benefits I might not have put here?

And the new gig. Is it interesting work? Expected duration? Useful tech? etc

And then I'd make a decision. it's not purely about the money for me and sometimes it's better the devil you know.

I can't say the work is exiting, but is likely to be running solid the next 2 years outside ir35, no probs working fully remote all over europe

The new gig is less of a headache and more interesting, prob a bit more pressure, and very sensitive to lockdowns for finances.

[vetran]

I don't believe that at all. Once you are in they don't carry on recruiting. I am sure if they auctioned the role off someone would come in cheaper just to get off the bench but they don't so I'd say that's wholly wrong.

And chasing the dollar isn't the one and only thing in business. If it was then business would be pure anarchy.

I think you've a very blinkered view there which has leads you to saying things that are just not true at all.

You have never heard off offshoring?

I have watched whole factories / areas manned by teams of both contractors and long term employees packed up and sent abroad with the workers paid the absolute minimum redundancy. With the availability of cheaper resource from eastern Europe I saw whole teams replaced with Eastern Europeans in a few years. A few papers have actually covered these stories.

I have also seen teams replaced by a third party who is supporting another part of the business e.g. cleaning / cooking team so the client only has one supplier to manage again its been in the papers and everything.

Think bigger! Open YOUR eyes.

Its not just chasing the dollar its control as well.