Reply to: Bu**er - the "in my mind, they'll never go for it" figure to stay has been offered..

[radish2008]

I think the baby Jesus would say ...

... "Cash is King ..."

[Ascot]

And don't be swayed by a client desperate enough to offer you stacks of cash to get them out of a hole, to them, its a plaster to apply until they can replace you.

This ^^^^^^
Getting your notice a month into an extension would blow the whole idea out of the water.

[kaiser78]

I would definitely go if the next contract opens up further opportunities in the future through providing additions to your skillset. Think further ahead than just your next contract.

[billybiro]

Id take the increase myself.

Love a warchest boost.

We all love a warchest boost, but at what cost?

[northernladyuk]

Ha! That would be fun... I might even stay at *that* point... might add that they would need to cover any breech of contract issues... that arose...


Hey ho, new contract singed and I get to interview my (interim?) replacement tomorrow... who will cost less than the gold plated carrot field they offered to bump me by, so sense is returning.

Mj

You should have stayed in the old contract and subbed it out.

[mjcp]

Go back and ask for another £175 pd.

Ha! That would be fun... I might even stay at *that* point... might add that they would need to cover any breech of contract issues... that arose...


Hey ho, new contract singed and I get to interview my (interim?) replacement tomorrow... who will cost less than the gold plated carrot field they offered to bump me by, so sense is returning.

Mj

[northernladyuk]

Fain heart.

May as well round it up to a Grand

You need to get there incrementally. Then you ask for a princess crown to wear at client site.

[washed up contractor]

I’d stop bullshiiting...

And attention seeking....

[MrMarkyMark]

Go back and ask for another £175 pd.

Fain heart.

May as well round it up to a Grand

[northernladyuk]

Go back and ask for another £175 pd.

[mjcp]

the extra £1000/week!

What he said ;-)

but as others and I have mentioned... a 2 1/2 month bench spell would all but wipe out the bump...

[pr1]

Why are you even contemplating staying?

the extra £1000/week!

[TheFaQQer]

It will be a $h1tty gig for 6 months

Why are you even contemplating staying?

[lukemg]

I would probably stay because the myth of the next job being great is just that, at least IME. You get there and it's the same old sh**e, might as well stay and take the cash....

[mjcp]

Tell them that you are willing to do what you can within the constraints of your new role to help them, that the new guys can contact you with questions. Tell them if it is going to be more than an hour a week that you'll need to reach an agreement on a retainer or some other fee structure, but you are glad to smooth the transition as much as you can.

At worst, they should respect your reasons for going. At best, they pay you a little bit to access that organisational memory, you get a nice little money spinner on the side for not much effort, you keep a relationship that could mean a nice lucrative contract in future, and you get an institutional reputation of "he's the guy we lost by taking too long to give him an offer, that if we could have kept him this might not have gone down in flames."

And if you do get a nice little agreement with them, it probably makes it more likely that HMRC chases someone else on IR35 cases. In fact, just the very fact of proposing it to them is acting like a business, not like a employee. It won't really change your IR35 status at all, but it's the kind of thing you put in your IR35 dossier and bring it out if they ever start harassing you about it.

Yup... pretty much the conversation I have just had with the current agent. The use of it as an IR35 defense hadn't occurred to me but every little helps :-)

cheers,

Mj