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Which is about a contractor declaring himself dead in order to jump ship. It is not uncommon for contractors to come up with the most extreme excuses for leaving a contract. I had a South African who told us his father had died at which point he disappeared. He also trashed his flat which prompted the landlord to contact us, so I rang his mum up in SA to see if we could talk to him. She said he was in the UK and when I said how sorry I was to hear that her husband had died she was astonished.
if a contractor disappears at short notice without telling anyone then whatever the excuse I would not believe them!
Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone
I once had a contractor who died during his contract. I phoned his wife and she said that the father of her children was dead and they were extremely upset. So when they had the funeral I drove up to Lancaster to watch. Anyway, the coffin was closed so later that night I came back and dug the grave up, prising the top off I had a look, took a sample and then had his DNA sampled.
As I suspected from the DNA test, he was not the father of her children and I told her. She was devasted, but not as devasted as when I told her, his estate owed me £30k in lost earnings. No-one walks out of one of my contracts!!!
Just had a look and I had got one. It had gone to Junk!
Might pop back to have a shufti...... all that sticks in my memory was BolshieB*stard who kept repeating that "that" site was tulip and "this" site was much better!!! but at the ClientCo "this" site was blocked..... I always wondered what I was missing!
Later when I did find "here" Bolshie turned out to be a twunt!
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