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Recent content by b0redom
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Bank accounts
Hi All, I've had a Natwest Business bank account for years and years, but recently things have been irking me a bit. They set a maximum (but unspecified) amount on payments/withdrawls which meant that I missed out on a pension contribution last year, and given the market turmoil at the moment...- b0redom
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- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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What AI do you use
A mix of them but mainly Claude. My experience is largely that it's great at boiler plate stuff and if you can give it really specific specifications. Given most of the customers I've worked with over the years I think we're all safe. -
Handing in notice earlier than needed, bad idea?
"I know you're thinking of keeping me on for a new project, but a previous client has asked me to come back to work for them starting on June 5th. I wanted to give you as much notice as possible to arrange cover for the new project and do a professional handover....."- b0redom
- Post #6
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Are professional references pointless now?
I just started with a Fintech company who wanted 10 years of work references, and a copy of my degree (from 1997). That's by far the exception though. With regard to 'real' references rather than just 'b0redom worked here between Dec 23 and Dec 24' or whatever, I try and collect a few LinkedIn... -
Orf with his head
On his birthday too apparently. Imagine the scene. "Happy birthday Sunshine. You're nicked." <The Sweeny Music> -
Help me with buying NAS
There is so much wrong with this... You can't do RAID 0+1 with 2 disks. What you then have is RAID-0. While that *is* faster in theory: 1) If you lose one of the drives, you lose all your data. 2) It doesn't matter anyway, you're doing NAS, not DAS, and even if you were doing DAS, it's not what... -
Current best place for indemnity/liabilty insurance
Hi Folks. I've finally managed to score and outeside IR35 role again! :banana: Unfortunately I need to get public liability insurance and indemnity insurance as part of the contract. I think I used QDOS last time, any recommendations?- b0redom
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- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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Outside IR35 &interviewing potential employees
Personally I don't see it as a problem. You were hired as an expert consultancy. There's no reason you can't/shouldn't apply those skills as part of your service to deliver whatever you're contracted to deliver. If you had a builder onsite and needed a sparky to do some stuff, you'd reasonably...- b0redom
- Post #6
- Forum: IR35 Reform
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Didn’t get paid today - Clarity / PSR
Doesn't really help you, but I'm with PSR + Clarity (at the moment) and they paid me yesterday.- b0redom
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- Forum: Umbrella Companies
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Agency forcing me to change umbrella - citing new regs?
Well you're not being TUPEd I guess as you have a 'choice' of employers. The email I got say that Giant will honour your current rate on their basic package though. Given my experience with them before though, I'll be going somewhere else.- b0redom
- Post #13
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Agency forcing me to change umbrella - citing new regs?
I am guessing it's a PSR contract. I've had similar telling me that they are only now prepared to work with Giant, Brookson or Paystream, and *really* pushing hard for me to pick Giant. Unfortunately I've used Giant before and they were awful, so it's probably back to Paysteam for me.- b0redom
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- Forum: Business / Contracts
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job market
Maybe I've just been lucky, but 40 months. :eek: I've never really been out of work when I've wanted it, but I've been flexible on rates when the market has tanked, and continuously trained myself. What are all you folks who've been out for 6 months+ specialising in?- b0redom
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- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Client wants me to sign on the old rate, and discuss after Christmas
Spam is grim stuff. :sick- b0redom
- Post #23
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Client wants me to sign on the old rate, and discuss after Christmas
I think the OP is crediting the client/agency with joined up thinking they are not capable of. Just because it's hard to hire/onboard poeple, doesn't mean you have leverage. I have worked on plenty of large vendor projects where they bring in folks with no experience of whatever they're supposed...- b0redom
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- Forum: Business / Contracts
