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    Cost of living and day rate

    I hope so, catch you next Tuesday :wink
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    Cost of living and day rate

    Ah, a gentleman of high culture I see. Any more colourful descriptors for me? Next time I'll be sure to start a thread called 'Throw the ApeShaped individual some slights'
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    Cost of living and day rate

    Permies have been seeing some sweet little raises across the board. However, am I the only contractor who feels a bit left out? After 10 months on the fly I found myself available again and I haven't found anything at least on par with my last gig. Companies want to pay no more than £500-550 PD...
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    Recruiter's using you as hook bait

    I know it's not exactly a new concept, but I'm curious to hear what the consensus here is on it. Case point being I had a call from naughty Mr Recruiter, telling me they would like to send company X a range of profiles so the company can see what candidates are currently on the market. Can we...
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    Accumulating interest on money owed to HMRC

    Wow. If my question pissed off you so badly why did you bother responding?
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    Accumulating interest on money owed to HMRC

    Just a thought. I've had my personal tax return back and I now know what I'll owe HMRC and when. In past years I just paid it off immediately, but as the dates are quite some way into the future and with interest rates going up I fancy just stuffing it into the best saver account I have until...
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    Carried Forward / Distributed amount. Keep or take out?

    Coming from Freeagent, as I understand it the Carried Forward is the amount that's immediately available to be paid out either as a Dividend or Salary. I've got a fair old amount stashed away in this box. I'm acutely aware that inflation is doing me no favours by keeping this money static. What...
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    Moving to the EU

    Moot point but perhaps I should've clarified any way. My contract is 100% WFH and runs till the end of the year (extension potential) I'd just like to spend the next 3-6 months somewhere new really and wish the logistics were straight forward when in fact they're seemingly not. Sigh.
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    Moving to the EU

    With things getting worse and worse here, has anyone looked into working abroad as a contractor? Curious. Spain or Portugal would be ideal, but thanks to the Will of the People there's now all sorts of hassles involved getting visa, work etc etc as to be expected. As a tourist you're only able...
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    Which one of you designed Barclay's IT systems?

    My god. The app's broken on Android (works intermittently pick a random time of day) The portal to upload my documents is also unusable (spits out error codes, the uploads hang) Did you not think to do some basic testing on any of this, seriously? I can't believe any of this is on a live...
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    Approved timesheet and not paid

    :embThe man at the helm is none other than the CFO! Yes, they're small enough that the CFO handles the dollar payments. I haven't really followed the dunning process as such, in that letters are sent. I have certainly called dozens of times and surely this must constitute to dunning of some...
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    Approved timesheet and not paid

    Guess what. I STILL have not received payment for this. Spoken to the man at the helm numerous times and am getting countless promises....Sending you payment shortly, will get that over to you by tomorrow. Heard it all. Now approaching the 21st and this will mean the invoice is a full month past...
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    Approved timesheet and not paid

    Yes, payment was due exactly on the 21st. How much time is reasonable for chasing. It's pretty easy to ignore emails and let calls go to voicemail which is happening a lot. Also, how do I sort out my opt/in status? The assignment has finished (it did so after the first week of November) so I'm...
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    Approved timesheet and not paid

    Cageyness as I'm trying not to get doxxed. But besides, I submitted my final timesheet for the first week of November at the end of the month. This was approved before the month was out and I had expected a payment to be made. I'm still chasing but responses are hit and miss.
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    Approved timesheet and not paid

    The last payment I received was in November, and that's for the previous months work. I've been with that client since the end of August. If you had to go through the motions of this, would you send a final demand for payment to the agency specifying the facts and quoting AWR. Failing that, then...
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