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I'm well aware of that, experienced it before - stood ground over unreasonable demand outside contract terms, terminated as a result.

At the moment, if it came off then it's still money - not that it will....

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Approached about an inside gig. May take it to cover the bills for the next year, gain more experience in a few skills. Sadly it's with a consultancy who screwed me over before and with a client who were painful to supply services to before, so I doubt it'll go anywhere...

EDIT: The plan...

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Think I'll pass on this one...

"
Location United Kingdom
Industry IT
Duration 3 months - Extension
Start Date ASAP
Rate 600pd
Employment Business TEKsystems
Contact TEMP LOGIN"

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Demonstrates financial risk...

I think in a brave new world, fixed price SOW is the way forward personally, but who knows how things wiil turn out?...

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The "hours per day" only matters for T&M gigs surely? If you're working to SoW with milestones that trigger payment, it's irrelevant the hours you put in?

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"Competitive rates".

Well, if they are so competitive, give them then. "US rates? Who gaf about US rates...

"Awards for culture..."

Well, maybe people see through the bs, style over substance?

"Rockstar talent?"...

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I'm happy to be proven wrong, but not sure it's something that would help one iota.

Smacks to me more of incentivisation to prevent contractors leaving contracts than anything else.

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Every invoice you submit carries financial risk, ie agency going into liquidation....

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Expected to work 9.5, 7.5 hours a day is typical T&M which we as contractors really need to get away from... milestone payments properly defined mean multiple contracts are better facilitated because it doesn't matter when you do the work as long as you hit the milestones.