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    #61
    Originally posted by minestrone View Post
    I am turning down an offer that is below my minimum rate.
    He's in the soup!
    This default font is sooooooooooooo boring and so are short usernames

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      #62
      Originally posted by minestrone View Post
      I am turning down an offer that is below my minimum rate, |I also have a decent Plan B that is interesting other parties at this point in time.
      Why not do both?

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        #63
        Originally posted by Ivor Bigun View Post
        Why not do both?
        The why questions belong in a different thread!
        This default font is sooooooooooooo boring and so are short usernames

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          #64
          Originally posted by Ivor Bigun View Post
          Why not do both?
          a full working day plus a 4 hour commute leaves me not enough time to do quality work. I already do about 100 hours a week and have been doing 18 hours days at the weekend.

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            #65
            Originally posted by Ivor Bigun View Post
            This is the whole fallacy of the "honour" thing. People who don't have such high morals usually despise those who do - because they can't feel they can manipulate them.
            Whatever you do, do it because you mean it, not because of the impression you think it will give.

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              #66
              Originally posted by expat View Post
              Whatever you do, do it because you mean it, not because of the impression you think it will give.
              So I really should send in that e-mail calling clientco a loss making crock of fraudulent tulip that’s devouring state subsidies and bloodsucking from taxpayers, suppliers and customers?
              And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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                #67
                Originally posted by MPwannadecentincome View Post
                so how do you put 300 pound worth of costs through per day?
                they were example figures to illustrate the principle




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                  #68
                  Originally posted by MPwannadecentincome View Post
                  so how do you put 300 pound worth of costs through per day?
                  Oh easy, posh meals, good hotels, first class travel, anything to keep profits below the 52% personal tax threshold.
                  And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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                    #69
                    Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
                    So I really should send in that e-mail calling clientco a loss making crock of fraudulent tulip that’s devouring state subsidies and bloodsucking from taxpayers, suppliers and customers?
                    Nah, just post it on a public forum from a clientco PC instead
                    "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "


                    Thomas Jefferson

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                      #70
                      Originally posted by Ruprect View Post
                      Nah, just post it on a public forum from a clientco PC instead
                      Yeah, that'll do.
                      And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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