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    #11
    Originally posted by milanbenes View Post
    3 weeks time I'll be there if I can't find anything else

    funny, client big blue said beginning july that no more budget for benes then recently they start talking to agent saying there can be an extension, but then purchasing says to agent benes has to take a rate cut, i told agent tell purchasing to stick their rate cut where the sun don't shine, also stressed to agent not to be under pressure to cut his margin, feck'em, they think they can find someone cheaper to to fix this stuff they are welcome to that person

    as red adair said, you think it's expensive to hire a professional try hiring an amateur

    anyway, might have an interview today or tomorrow for .net IDM in CH

    Milan.
    Excellent & well done for sticking to your guns and walking.

    Let this be a lesson to all the newbie namby-pamby bed wetting pseudo contractors of a how a true professional contractor operates

    God Bless
    How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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      #12
      Originally posted by Troll View Post
      Let this be a lesson to all the newbie namby-pamby bed wetting pseudo contractors of a how a true professional contractor operates


      new job opportunity for Troll and

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        #13
        Originally posted by Troll View Post
        Excellent & well done for sticking to your guns and walking.

        Let this be a lesson to all the newbie namby-pamby bed wetting pseudo contractors of a how a true professional contractor operates

        God Bless
        Troll,

        agree and disagree,

        you know there's only so much in the pot, we need the namby-pamby bed wetting pseudo contractors to take rate cuts so that the project manager will have enough left in the pot to keep us on the rate to which we have become acustomed.

        Thanks for the blessing - there's nothing like a bit of good luck.

        I'll shall keep all updated.

        All the fun of contracting.

        Milan.

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          #14
          Originally posted by milanbenes View Post
          Troll,

          agree and disagree,

          you know there's only so much in the pot, we need the namby-pamby bed wetting pseudo contractors to take rate cuts so that the project manager will have enough left in the pot to keep us on the rate to which we have become acustomed.

          Thanks for the blessing - there's nothing like a bit of good luck.

          I'll shall keep all updated.

          All the fun of contracting.

          Milan.
          Well good luck either way.
          "Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch." - Orson Welles

          Norrahe's blog

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            #15
            Originally posted by bren586 View Post
            I had the same experience with the same company last year. Rate cut - no thanks, then no extension. Fine, I will have the summer off. It is not as if they pay top dollar anyway.

            Then I got a call from purchasing about my unprofessional behaviour! If I left then the project would not finish on time (manager kicked it upstairs (CYA)). I said I was more than willing to stay but no rate cuts.

            Rate cut or no extension.

            OK, I will have the summer off.

            I had a great summer
            Cheeky buggers!
            "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
            - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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              #16
              Originally posted by Troll View Post
              Excellent & well done for sticking to your guns and walking.

              Let this be a lesson to all the newbie namby-pamby bed wetting pseudo contractors of a how a true professional contractor operates

              God Bless
              Stretching it a bit isn't it? This is milan we are talking about!!

              “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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                #17
                thanks Shaun,

                well it appears the agency have caved in ( i told them not to ) and are squeezing their margin and from what the agent said purchasing are offering some flexibility too

                waiting to talk to the agent later to findout exactly

                the CH role is off, agent got the spec wrong

                Milan.

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by milanbenes View Post
                  thanks Shaun,

                  well it appears the agency have caved in ( i told them not to ) and are squeezing their margin and from what the agent said purchasing are offering some flexibility too

                  waiting to talk to the agent later to findout exactly

                  the CH role is off, agent got the spec wrong

                  Milan.
                  Well anyway. Joking aside, well done. Keep the invoicing going, replacement Passats don't grow on trees!!

                  “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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