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not if you know someone who knows...

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whatever they *think* CUK is still a commercial venture, funded by advertising....

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information on this site is worth what pay for it...

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Always knowing someone who knows the current car park situation at Vodafone in Newbury.

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Seems a surprising move to use a site that hosts a forum where your brand is roasted on a regular basis, to advertise your brand.
Must be cheap to advertise, or the marketing people are worse at marketing than the accountants are at accounting.

It's like Twitter advertising on Ma...

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in the land of the blind the one-eyed man is King...

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"when someone has been on the forum for years, and has 0 rep, the chances are they are a tedious dribbling imbecile"

Have I got the hang of this?

And yeah it should be in general as it's not a professional discussion.

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I have no issues downloading PDFs on an iPhone.
Sounds like a server side problem.
Get an SSL cert though FFS…. It’s the 21st century.

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who said you should commit fraud?

Are you an employee? Yes.
Can you prove it with 3 months of payslips? Yes.

Due diligence on a basic mortgage check? Have you gone mad? They do ability to pay checks (because they have to by law), which are more about your debts, income...

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perhaps you should not have told them you're a "contractor".
For their purposes you aren't. You're an "employee" and have payslips to prove it....

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fooked...

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why not provide your employment contract, payslips and accompanying timesheets?

The actual contract between agency and umbrella may not be forthcoming as it's none of your business.

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It won't stay under a labour government.
The new rules, it would seem, will allow for unlimited inheritance without IHT if you die under 75. That is not gonna stay.

What pisses me off is using pensions as a political football. Make the lifetime limit £1.5M or £2M will sort the issue...

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its sounds like you want worst business bank. Certainly not best.

As you don't need integration with Free Agent, then just pick any free business bank. Credit Suisse maybe?
Silicon Valley?

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Home insurance most likely does cover business laptops.
When I was a permie I got burgled and my home insurance paid for the work laptop as well as personal....

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they will overturn the removal of the lifetime cap. Not sure they'll reduce the annual cap....

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WTF has a credit check got to do with you being paid?
Sounds like agent bullsh1t......

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sounds like the 'front end agency' is not an agency, but a consultancy.

EG. Cap Gemini, BT, DXC. All of whom are SC sponsors in their own right.
But they are not agencies.

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nah. disagree,

Desktop Engineer train to Intune. That stuff is in demand and a techie skill, and also a great contracting opportunity (BAs and Scrum Masters are where incompetence goes to hide in permieland)...

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Can you prove you were there first day?
If so then you are entitled to be paid.

Should you chase it?
Maybe. Depends on whether trying to will cause someone to drop you as a pain the arse.

Do the contractors in the same situation as you work for the same agency?...