Hassle free contracting life?

[PAH]

Only real problem I've had in over 12 years of contracting is an agency going into voluntary liquidation having not paid lots of contractors (including me) for a couple of months. They had debts of going on for a million (mostly to contractors) only to be able to start up again under a different name and continue as if nothing had happened.

Icing on the cake is I recently found out the liquidators are charging £220 per hour and have racked up 40k in fees so far, with f-all to show for it, apart from to say we aren't likely to see any dividend from what money they do claw back from the directors. Bunch of ******* parasites, just like the agents.

Off to watch 'Falling Down' and 'Exterminator' for some inspiration on how to deal with these *******.

[russell]

Thats why I only work for blue chips that are unlikely to fail, like banks e.g. Lehman Brothers, Icelandic banks.

[lukemg]

15 years - no problems but big agencies+ big companies which helps. Also, I ain't living hand to mouth and sweating over every payment so that lowers the stress - caveat - if it was a small co/agency I would insist on weekly billing going in to reduce liability...

[norrahe]

No major problems, some delayed payments when I went direct, some fishing, some benchtime but overall its been pretty good.

can't complain