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Working for IBM outside IR35 ?
I've just been sent through a Hays contract which they wanted signed without seeing the schedule or the ACL (acceptance criteria letter) even though the contract references criteria in the ACL in some clauses. This would make it difficult to sign as I don't know if the ACL terms are acceptable...- bassy
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Tyrant PM - Quit or not?
I've had this in the past from a project I was working on and it was actually with the architect. Nothing was right and they constantly would rave and rant at me in front of the rest of the department. I was even ranted at for things other devs had done on another project that had nothing to do...- bassy
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Xero or Freeagent and EoY accountants
My current accountant is monthly and to be honest they only do year end for me. I handle all VAT submissions etc. Currently I just send them spreadsheets after year end for them to do the CT - and then I double check their work. I prefer keeping control and checking all the accountants' work as...- bassy
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Xero or Freeagent and EoY accountants
That may just have swung it in the favor of FreeAgent. Xero would have to up their game now with Pandas Thanks for your feedback all - might be that I give FreeAgent a go first up when I get all the rest of my stuff off the current accountant.- bassy
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Xero or Freeagent and EoY accountants
I am currently moving away from my monthly paid for accountant. One of the main reasons being is that for the past few years I have handled all my monthly items and they have really only completed my year end stuff/Corp tax. As I have been using the old "upton" spreadsheet I now want an...- bassy
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Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
I worked there last year but in Portsdown. I had a friendly team (but didnt sit with them due to differing security) instead I was given a desk near a completely different team who even though I didnt work with them were all very nice to me (I got xmas presents too off them). I found the place...- bassy
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Contractors that don't work 5 day weeks...
I've worked like this on quite a few contracts now (SQL devt): The last one I compressed 5 days into 4 - came in early every day and stayed late. I worked 5 day weeks for the first month and then arranged for the revised week once they got to know me. The one before that I worked from home 3...- bassy
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Pre Employment Screening/Vetting
To be honest I am in about the same position as you at the moment (anyone noticed that contracts are like buses - nothing for a couple of weeks then two or three come along at once). Got offered a contract on Monday (contract A) subject to references and checks and told me that they hoped I...- bassy
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Upton Accountants - more info
I did get rung up by a former upton's employee last week to be told that Darren's wife had now taken over Uptons and that all the staff had handed in their notice. The former employee has sent me details on the new firm he has moved to but if anyone has any other recommendations (especially one...- bassy
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Upton Accountants - more info
Like Ratewhore i have been with them a few years now and over the last 18 months seen a big decline in service. Last years EOY accounts were late and again this years. Darren has only ever been my only contact there and I kept chasing this years accounts to always be told that they were going to...- bassy
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Delay in userid requests causes contract termination
+1 Took me almost 3 months to get login stuff for my current gig. Continue to invoice, be pro-active and see how much you can do without access to the network (I had my laptop set up and wrote all the code and database stuff on there and then ftp'ed it to an area which the client could access so...- bassy
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Congratulations, you now have an iProfile
Ha Re-think have done the same to me too - clicking unsubscribe in the email throws up an error and when I finally logged in found that my i-profile is around 6 years out of date - have to delete it again :spank::tantrum: This must be about the 8-9th iprofile i've deleted. -
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Last role ended Feb09, trying to get back in, no luck so far!
Does that actually work? (asking as I usually get sick the night before an interview and even worse when taking exams)- bassy
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Manpower
Again as Nomadd I worked as a temp through them years ago whilst a student. Always paid on time (weekly then) and they were always friendly. However it can be seen as a foot in the door as the place I temped at actually offered me my first IT role as they knew me.- bassy
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If I could turn back time
I wanted to be a photojournalist - got a place at uni to do a photojournalism degree but everyone wanted me to do a "proper" degree - I gave in, did Biology and never touched it after leaving Uni and just fell accidently into IT after doing some IT support whilst in my last year at Uni (was...
