Silly agency

[TimberWolf]

Look for the words "without prejudice" written in invisible ink.

[Moscow Mule]

You are clearly hallucinating.

Chicane, you have clearly taken too many drugs this lunchtime. I suggest you go and have a lie down, ready for the evening.

[chicane]

Chicane, you have clearly taken too many drugs this lunchtime. I suggest you go and have a lie down, ready for the evening.

It's all true, no word of a lie!

[Charles Foster Kane]

My agency has managed to lose the faxed copy of a timesheet sent to them at the beginning of November - they claimed they'd never even received it until I offered to sent the confirmation email they provide every time they receive a faxed timesheet.

It seems inevitable that I'll eventually need to find the original timesheet and re-fax it to them, but in the meantime I'd like some ideas on how to help them realise their own stupidity for managing to lose a timesheet, and then accusing me of never sending it. Idiots.

File your timesheets after sending them. Email instead of faxing if you can.

[chicane]

File your timesheets after sending them. Email instead of faxing if you can.

What you say all makes sense - unfortunately the way in which most agencies work isn't often well aligned with the concept of sense.

This particular agency (amazingly in this day and age) requires contractors to fill in their timesheets online, print them out, get them signed, then fax them to the agency office. I tried pleading ignorance at the start of the contract by sending by email to no avail.

The previous contract was through an S3 agency and the timesheets and billing were entirely online - you fill in your timesheet, an email is sent to the client rep to show them your claimed hours, they click on a link in the email to confirm those hours and you get paid a couple of days later. I'm not full of kind words for the S3 agencies, but their timesheet system is the way things should be.