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[suityou01]

Need a quick read on something. Current consultancy ask me to fill out monthly timesheets in excel given a template they provide.
Recently they've switched over to an online system. All good.

Then they asked me to fill out both the excel and the online system. Grumbled a bit, but ok fair enough.

Then they suddenly rejected my invoices as they weren't broken down by day and by project. I grumbled a bit more. They are now honouring my invoices with no further changes for March.
Buuuuut they say from April onwards I need to do this.

I've refused on the grounds that it's basically recreating the timesheet in an invoice, and duplicating effort and information unnecessarily.

Given that I work across multiple projects and regularly have to switch, on a busy month an invoice could run to many pages.

Anyone ever had this? What did you do?

[zeitghost]

Spent the entire afternoon doing the washing.

I ran out of clean stuff this morning.

Needs must & all that.

[DaveB]

Need a quick read on something. Current consultancy ask me to fill out monthly timesheets in excel given a template they provide.
Recently they've switched over to an online system. All good.

Then they asked me to fill out both the excel and the online system. Grumbled a bit, but ok fair enough.

Then they suddenly rejected my invoices as they weren't broken down by day and by project. I grumbled a bit more. They are now honouring my invoices with no further changes for March.
Buuuuut they say from April onwards I need to do this.

I've refused on the grounds that it's basically recreating the timesheet in an invoice, and duplicating effort and information unnecessarily.

Given that I work across multiple projects and regularly have to switch, on a busy month an invoice could run to many pages.

Anyone ever had this? What did you do?

Copy and paste the spreadsheet as an attachement to the invoice. Write up the invoice for X days at Y rate with detailed breakdown provided in attachment Z.

[NickFitz]

On hold to O2 Customer Services, because the idiots in the Apple Store gave me a Pay Monthly SIM for a PAYG account, and they have different settings. I only found out yesterday I can't send SMS messages, and when I tried the "default settings" button it disabled data too

[NickFitz]

Comment from the nice, helpful Glaswegian lady at O2: "Actually, we don't get many iPhones on Pay As You Go"

Data's working again, but I still don't seem to be able to send SMS

[FatLazyContractor]

On hold to O2 Customer Services, because the idiots in the Apple Store gave me a Pay Monthly SIM for a PAYG account, and they have different settings. I only found out yesterday I can't send SMS messages, and when I tried the "default settings" button it disabled data too

A man of your intelligence shouldn't be using an iPhone.

[NickFitz]

A man of your intelligence shouldn't be seen dead using any lesser device than an iPhone.

FTFY

[NickFitz]

Finally got SMS working, by dint of entering certain mystical incantations involving * and # along with various numbers

[NickFitz]

In order to get the telecommunications working, I charged up my old iPhone 3GS so I had something to send and receive with. I was amazed at how small it seemed, even though it's only been a few weeks since it was my regular device

[NickFitz]

Reheated sausage casserole for dinner, with chips of course.

I've just realised that I'd cut up and added some sausages I'd cooked the other day to the mix. This means those bits have been reheated twice, which is supposed to make them poisonous or something. So if I spend the night throwing up, or all of tomorrow invoicing from ClientCorp's toilets, that'll be the reason why

But I daresay it'll be fine. They were good quality sausages