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    No Exit clause - Leaving early

    I started as an Analyst Programmer a month ago, and I find the the workplace awful. My team lead doesn't seem to have a clue but pretends to be an authority on the subject and controlling everyone around her. Some side with her too. I think she is going to spoil the project and at that stage she...
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    Tyrant PM - Quit or not?

    Whenever there is a tussle between the tyrant PM and a team member, PM always wins regardless of her/his bad behaviour. You are good at work, but they are good in "managing" you. It will be a losing battle, if you attempt to educate the tyrant PM. They would not tolerate any sign of...
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    Do I leave a failing project?

    It is amazing that the Senior Management "always" listen to those who are determined to fail the project. I have seen this happening in few projects, where the "politicians" bring in their favouites, who in turn work towards the goal of failing the project. In this situation, the contractor is...
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    Contractor hater at the work place

    There is a contractor hater at the work place. Every now and then, she keeps declaring, "I hate contractors".
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    Fired and escorted out because I did not accept to be paid less than hours worked

    I was with a client once. Due to project urgency, the client manager asked me - along with the entire team - to work up to 10:00 PM, almost 13 to 14 hours, each day. Except me, all were permies., and permies got OT. When I filled in the timesheet at the end of the month, the client manager...
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    Client asking to go permanent

    What reasoning did you provide to say no?
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    Client asking to go permanent

    My current role is for a specific project. There are many projects coming up, so the Client obviously wants me to be a senior consultant helping several projects.
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    Client asking to go permanent

    Now I am largely unaffected by the organisational politics, but once I get there, not sure. Secondly, the package is not likely to match the contract rate. So, I don't want to even know the package on offer, because, once interest is shown, then it may be difficult to withdraw from the...
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    Client asking to go permanent

    Just into the contract for two months, and the Client is asking me to go permanent, offering to provide an acceptable pay package. How can I politely decline the offer? Would it affect the contract extension?
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    Another ridiculous contract

    No, I did not decide or declare that. I assumed that because of the terms defined in the contract. I will see if they make the first payment as per the original schedule (6 weeks), as it was not my fault that I did not have access to timesheet system on time.
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    Another ridiculous contract

    My status is Opt Out. As I stated earlier, as per the contract terms, first payment will be made after 6 weeks after the submission of first timesheet. By delaying providing access to the timesheet by one week, they effectively made the first payment possible only after 7 weeks.
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    Another ridiculous contract

    The agency, although seems to be a big name, appears to be having some thugs writing the contract terms with the sole aim of deceiving the contractor to steal the hard earned money of the contractor. They deliberately delayed providing access to the timesheet system to log the time. I really...
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    Another ridiculous contract

    It is sad that the agencies seem to have upper hand, while it is the contractors who earn all the money for them.
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    Another ridiculous contract

    On going through the contract again, I see all the conditions have been written in a negative way, many conditions giving the agency excuses not to pay. The termination clauses again are written almost like how they could terminate without any reason. Only a crooked mind could have drafted such...
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    Another ridiculous contract

    They did not specify what these losses would be. One more thing. The agency sent the contract by email without their signature, asked me to sign the contract first - and asked me to send the scanned pages with signature before they signed. Is this correct? Who has to sign the contract first? It...
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