Would you?

[Rookie]

So the panel is split on this one.

Caveat: It depends on the individual circumstances.

[Doggy Styles]

I used to do that. I was in Germany when my youngest was born (in England).

Par for the course if you're a contractor, but I'll admit I've never signed up for a year at a time. That is a long time to be committed.

[suityou01]

I used to do that. I was in Germany when my youngest was born (in England).

Par for the course if you're a contractor, but I'll admit I've never signed up for a year at a time. That is a long time to be committed.

Thanks DS. That's kind of the point. Working away is Par for the course, and I've done it before. But .... A 12 month gig is long time, and by the time I get finished my new baby will be 8 months old. Which leaves the wife with all the new baby stuff to do on her own with two small children running around her ankles. I know she would cope, but I want to be there with her.

Aparently, the pimps told ClientCo the only way they could get top quality contractors was to put out a 12 month contract.

[EternalOptimist]

Thanks DS. That's kind of the point. Working away is Par for the course, and I've done it before. But .... A 12 month gig is long time, and by the time I get finished my new baby will be 8 months old. Which leaves the wife with all the new baby stuff to do on her own with two small children running around her ankles. I know she would cope, but I want to be there with her.

Aparently, the pimps told ClientCo the only way they could get top quality contractors was to put out a 12 month contract.

Top quality contractors dont walk away from gigs

[DodgyAgent]

Exactly. Life's too short to put up with a contract that you don't want to be in. If the shoe was on the other foot, ClientCo would terminate your contract without a second thought.

Which is why you are paid such high rates without having to take any responsibility for the work you do. It is this attitude that undermines the perceived professionalism of contractors, which in turn is why so much work is shipped out to India.

[DodgyAgent]

Top quality contractors dont walk away from gigs

[NotAllThere]

... Which leaves the wife with all the new baby stuff to do on her own with two small children running around her ankles...

Where's the downside?

Finish the contract. You're going home at weekends, so it's not like you're really missing out. Take a couple of weeks of over the period of the birth, then pay for a home help.

[suityou01]

That's what I thought. Seeing as I am even asking about the ethics of doing this, rather than just brazenly doing it means there must be hope for me yet.

[Rookie]

Which is why you are paid such high rates without having to take any responsibility for the work you do. It is this attitude that undermines the perceived professionalism of contractors, which in turn is why so much work is shipped out to India.

Bulltulip DA. When high rates are taken into account with no sickness pay, no pension, or other such benefits in addition to working on a one weeks notice period the high rates do not seem so high. Contractors are viewed as expendable.

Circumstances change and if a contractor accepted a contract with all the best intentions in the world and terminated it because it didn't work out for whatever reason I personally wouldn't give a **** about what the agent thought. Who the **** are you to preach about morals and professionalism?

Do me a favour and climb down from your high horse and instead look at a the attittude and 'professionalism' of most agents.

Just for the record I haven't terminated a contract early but I know that if a contract was making me ill or pi55ing me off to the extent that I hated being there then I would end it without a second thought.

[DodgyAgent]

Bulltulip DA. When high rates are taken into account with no sickness pay, no pension, or other such benefits in addition to working on a one weeks notice period the high rates do not seem so high. Contractors are viewed as expendable.

Circumstances change and if a contractor accepted a contract with all the best intentions in the world and terminated it because it didn't work out for whatever reason I personally wouldn't give a **** about what the agent thought. Who the **** are you to preach about morals and professionalism?

Do me a favour and climb down from your high horse and instead look at a the attittude and 'professionalism' of most agents.

Just for the record I haven't terminated a contract early but I know that if a contract was making me ill or pi55ing me off to the extent that I hated being there then I would end it without a second thought.

So you benchmark your standards of professionalism against those of recruitment agents do you? No wonder clients are off to India in droves