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[malvolio]

AS have I. What you have to be very clear on is that you can't book the same hour to two different clients*; that's where the risk lies. As long as you keep a strict separation and record your time honestly and accurately there's no problem.


* Actually not strictly true; if you are...

[malvolio]

What, you think that dirge is one of his greatest? Given I've listened to his entire output over the years, I'm entitled to an opinion. As are you. Doesn't mean we aren't both right....

[malvolio]

There are two types of employee, those who can and those who get promoted. The latter are the ones pushing the long hours, since the partners - who mainly came up the same way - seriously believe that time expended equals progress made. The detail that the progress is going into reporting and planning...

[malvolio]

I'd let your new accountant deal with it, to be honest. Not worth the hassle of trying to hasten the handover, and the new people will have a legal right to the data. Just be very sure SJD have closed everything down. There may be some outstanding fees, don't forget you pay monthly for a full business...

[malvolio]

Be quicker to list the ones I don't like. In which case "Objects n the Rear View Mirror" would be at the top of the list.

Our daughter found my original copy of BoH when she was about 15 and deeply into Duran Duran. Been a rocker ever since.

[malvolio]

In that case it's no different to a company car. You will be taxed on the BIK element as normal if YourCo owns it (and beware of insurance, which will be difficult to arrange since every policy I've seen excludes business use), or you can own it personally and claim business mileage for any work-related...

[malvolio]

Then look up Fabricant....

[malvolio]

Perhaps read the explanation of "rebellion" on the page you quoted....

[malvolio]

It's not how many, it's how many times he goes against the party's majority vote on a given subject. And he is allowed to agree with stuff....

[malvolio]

The Whips don't have that kind of power, but that aside, Labour don't have any power at all. Do you think he will still get that funding now - 'cos I don't.

Plus more than one routinely against-voting Tory MP has said they've never been blackmailed by the whips or anyone else in government....

[malvolio]

Hang on, my little fantasist. Why would anyone resign and/or not have the confidence of the party if you have won a vote of confidence? A win is a win, remember. It's sort of a basic tenet of democracy.

If a VoC is called it will be on the back of the inquiry results. Those, by any reasonable...

[malvolio]

I was, I gave up a few years ago. Optimism was finally exhausted a couple of years before that, largely driven by watching supposedly experienced senior managers making the same old mistakes time and time again.

Making models, walking the dog and regularly discovering I can't act fill my...

[malvolio]

I admire your optimism....

[malvolio]

Sorry? The PPS called the party, the PPS was told it should not go ahead, the PPS wimped out of cancelling it through embarrassment, so the boss should resign. Perhaps Boris should resign, but not over this particular piece of nonsense. There are two PPSs at present, both MPs of course, so you can't...

[malvolio]

Before, when he applied for the job as PM......

[malvolio]

"Choice of agency". Nice idea. You go with the one with the right job for you. They owe you no loyalty (as has already been said, you are merely a commodity) so while it's good to keep in with the good ones, it's very hard to do unless you are a sought after specialist, or have a wide enough...

[malvolio]

Nobody listens to David Davis any more, other than David Davis. He failed at being important years ago....

[malvolio]

In which case the PPS should resign or be sacked, surely...

And it's Peston, incidentally; another soi-disant campaigning journalist with a strong bias toward idiocy. Been an embarrassment for years....

[malvolio]

Loving the delusion that I think Boris is worthy of support. He isn't, it's just that the alternatives are hideously worse....

[malvolio]

You won't get one. Rin gthem up and keep ringing. It took me five tries to get them to remove my contact details after I left them a few years back, after which they were still sending in RTI reports to HMRC meaning they thought I had double my actual income. All that was done by emails, winding up...