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[Ketto]

Guess a lot depends on your personal position - if being out of work in Jan is no big deal you can push for more, delay signing etc. If no work in Jan means the mortgage doesn't get paid and the kids are eating spam sandwiches for tea then sign and try and improve later (but ultimately accept whatever...

[Ketto]

I was told i was on the blacklist for a large multinational back in 2008 for not attending a 2005 interview without cancelling, even though I did cancel! Probably a good thing in hindsight, I may have ended up working on something in a Toby Jones drama.

[Ketto]

Same here. I say this as someone with the opposite of an agenda against the company, I really value having a trustworthy brolly i can use as my first choice should the need arise and they were it (like Contractor Umbrella were back in the day). My reaction to this situation would be the same if any...

[Ketto]

In my experience all compliant umbrellas are broadly similar - but most of those I have worked with in the past seem to have their own unique quirks and ways of doing things which pee you off in different (sometimes major, sometimes minor) ways. Given the Clarity situation the next best from past experience...

[Ketto]

It feels a bit like when Contractor Umbrella
got bought out a few years back, lots of us used to recommemd them prior to that that and before Clarity was set up.

Based on this thread (and the lack of any detailed responses to questions raised) i don’t think anyone sensible would...

[Ketto]

Filed accounts 29th Oct 2025, compulsory strike off notice 4th Nov 2025, compulsory strike off discontinued 5th Nov 2025. Doesn't look very stable....

[Ketto]

Very much at this stage too (ten years sooner too!), I have my required number of friends - don't need to make more at work....

[Ketto]

Everyone is different. I have periods where i go in all the time, others where i don’t go in for weeks. There are good and bad points to both. I can’t imagine what raising young kids needing school and nursery runs must have been like pre-covid for two people both commuting into the city.
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[Ketto]

And to not have it in these circumstances i.e. unannounced ownership change, move to offshore, loss of FCSA accreditation, getting flamed on main IT contractor forum with virtually no response. I wouldn’t use them again based on this and as things stand wouldn’t be able to do my usual “try Clarity”...

[Ketto]

You can give youself a P45, done it before when switching to brolly for a while while Ltd remained active.

[Ketto]

Doesn’t seem unreasonable for contractors employed by Clarity to expect to hear about such a major change in ownership officially, rather than via an online forum five months later....

[Ketto]

The retirement countdown posts will start from Monday....

[Ketto]

The £2k limit is insane. I just love it when governments offer incentives to behave in a certain way and then have a major crack down to stop the behaviour they have been encouraging....

[Ketto]

Good that it is being delayed until 2029 at least, maybe it gets binned before then. Very weird thing to be implementing just as you are trying to get re-elected mind! Maybe it is a ruse to get the fiscal rules to add up now - in the hope that the sunlit uplands have started before 2029 and they can...