IR35 unfriendly wording

[suityou01]

So everything you do ends up in failure?

Define success?

Success is not final...Failure is not fatal...it's the courage to continue that counts

[eek]

Define success?

For a contractor success is a problem. Success means a potential end date while chaos (i.e. the state between success and failure) is where the money is.....

[suityou01]

For a contractor success is a problem. Success means a potential end date while chaos (i.e. the state between success and failure) is where the money is.....

So for a contractor, the ability to keeeeeeeep invoicing could be measured as success?

[d000hg]

So for a contractor, the ability to keeeeeeeep invoicing could be measured as success?

Whereas being told by the client to take 2 weeks off unpaid would not.

[eek]

Whereas being told by the client to take 2 weeks off unpaid would not.

Yep. I've never been asked that in 18 years (of contracting, granted with 5 years as a permie in the middle). In fact I usually get what extra hours can you do to try and resolve this mess...

[suityou01]

Whereas being told by the client to take 2 weeks off unpaid would not.

Well I can't see why you are asking me to take responsibility for their lack of organisation unless that is a poor trolling attempt.

You don't understand what you're talking about, and in this case to talk about "The client" doesn't make sense as there is more than one. It's complicated.

However I managed to invoice 10/12 months last year, and so far have 100% working billable days for 2014 so I'm trying to keep chipper.

[d000hg]

Well I can't see why you are asking me to take responsibility for their lack of organisation

Isn't part of your role to organise things better?

[suityou01]

Isn't part of your role to organise things better?

I would that it were. If it was we wouldn't be in this mess. I'm "managing upwards". Sometimes you just have to sit tight, and gently point the arrows in the direction of the poop, rather than pointing and yelling "poop!".

Mind you since I started I was told I was the developer, then that the development was being off shored and I was the BA. Then I was told I was to work out of Cambridge on site with one of the suppliers as a BA/Consultant.

This week I'm back to being BA, but with shades of PM. Next week, who knows.

All that matters is the invoice.

[No2politics]

IR35 unfriendly wording

Mind you since I started I was told I was the developer, then that the development was being off shored and I was the BA. Then I was told I was to work out of Cambridge on site with one of the suppliers as a BA/Consultant.

This week I'm back to being BA, but with shades of PM. Next week, who knows.

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In other words direction and control

[Platypus]

IR35 is determined on the working conditions, not the wording of the contract.

This being the case, doesn't that render all contract review services utterly pointless?