Reply to: Administration

[Phukit]

Bit long tell me about it...

It's been a balls up from the start....

without going into detail, in house politics from the project team right up to board level of a well known investment bank saying migration.... not over my dead body result from 8months work so far 400 migrations when the target was 3000 users in 6 months.

[Sockpuppet]

8 months would be perfectly reasonable for a decent size corporate migrating from, for example, Lotus Notes to Exchange/Outlook. Planning, determining strategy, testing processes, new client software on every PC, new mail servers, migration of all old email boxes, no email to be lost during migration, developing training materials, training users in new client app, users distributed around the country/world etc etc - thats not a trivial exercise.

Just tell them all to get a hotmail account and be done with it.

See I really do save people money

[martinb]

8 months to migrate some e-mail? Bit long do you not think? Is it literally just using new servers or is it writing some form of custom e-mail?

8 months would be perfectly reasonable for a decent size corporate migrating from, for example, Lotus Notes to Exchange/Outlook. Planning, determining strategy, testing processes, new client software on every PC, new mail servers, migration of all old email boxes, no email to be lost during migration, developing training materials, training users in new client app, users distributed around the country/world etc etc - thats not a trivial exercise.

[DS23]

Hi, Another newbie....

But now the extra bumper christmas present has been they owe 2 and 1/2 months fees and have now gone in to receivership/administration.

I'm very happy about all this as you might expect

Have you processed all the invoices? You might be able to claw some back by going direct to the client.

[Sockpuppet]

The situation is the client outsourced their email migration to another company who contracted me direct no agencies involved for the length of the project. 8 months in and after making noises that my October fee hasn't been Paid (30 day terms) November to be paid at end of December etc...

So I'll join to the queue and try and negociate terms with the client

8 months to migrate some e-mail? Bit long do you not think? Is it literally just using new servers or is it writing some form of custom e-mail?

[Cowboy Bob]

And how does you having witnessed it, stop it being common or garden theft?

tim

Where in my post did I say it wasn't?

[tim123]

I've seen it done...

And how does you having witnessed it, stop it being common or garden theft?

tim

[cojak]

..right.

[The Outsourcer]

Don't take the risk

in my opinon I only use large agency's like MODIS and LA International, they pay me every week with out fail, even if I find a nice contract with a small agency I don't even apply, just not worth the hassle.

[gravesendboy]

which company

please enlighten us as to who has gone into administration ?

[Phukit]

The situation is the client outsourced their email migration to another company who contracted me direct no agencies involved for the length of the project. 8 months in and after making noises that my October fee hasn't been Paid (30 day terms) November to be paid at end of December etc...

So I'll join to the queue and try and negociate terms with the client

[Cowboy Bob]

Advertising theft now?

I've seen it done...

And to the OP, I've been in a position where I was owed about £4k from a company that went into administration. After registering myself as a creditor with the administrators, I think I finally managed to claim back about £800 after about 12 months or so.

[Sockpuppet]

Get the hell out of there and take some of their stuff with you, like a laptop or something you can get some cash for.

Advertising theft now?

[Lucy]

Get the hell out of there and take some of their stuff with you, like a laptop or something you can get some cash for.

[VectraMan]

I don't understand that either, but your contract probably has a clause about either party becoming invsolvent. So if it as agent that's going into administration you should have no problem going direct (of course IANAL).

You'll probably get so much in the pound from the receivers, with "so much" being very little.