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Just to update on this:
Agency agreed to pay rail travel costs up to £100 with client picking up the tab
There were 4 people in contention and I got the contract.
Just goes to show it potentially worth pushing your luck sometimes
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Originally posted by psychocandy View PostNow in this case I would have kicked off and wanted paying for wasted travelling....
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There should be a circle of hell reserved for clients who get you to the other side of the country where you do a perfectly good interview to find out they only want local people.
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Originally posted by psychocandy View PostNow in this case I would have kicked off and wanted paying for wasted travelling....
Would you want to work for someone so piss poorly organised either though?
Again, London. AM interview. Train fare - £180 or something at peak times. If they put it back 30 mins it'd be £35. I was on JSA at the time! They said no. Waste over two weeks JSA money no thanks.Last edited by northernladuk; 5 March 2019, 12:04.
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Originally posted by Eirikur View PostNormally it's on your own expense, if they offer to pay for it just accept it, but always assume and it's in 99% of interviews the case you have to pay it your self and you put it on your business expenses
I have had two or three occasions where I had to travel for several hours, drive hundreds of miles to find out the client had "forgotten" there was an interview or claimed he didn't know, the agency hadn't informed them. In those cases I send a bill for wasting my time and my expenses to the agency, not that they ever pay though, not chasing them to pay either, it's just to make a point
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Originally posted by b0redom View PostGood luck with that. I suspect that the agent would blame the client and vice versa. If you started kicking off before you'd even got the contract I suspect they wouldn't touch you with a barge pole.
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Originally posted by Eirikur View PostNormally it's on your own expense, if they offer to pay for it just accept it, but always assume and it's in 99% of interviews the case you have to pay it your self and you put it on your business expenses
I have had two or three occasions where I had to travel for several hours, drive hundreds of miles to find out the client had "forgotten" there was an interview or claimed he didn't know, the agency hadn't informed them. In those cases I send a bill for wasting my time and my expenses to the agency, not that they ever pay though, not chasing them to pay either, it's just to make a point
Phoned the agency and asked him what he was playing at. Agency guy said "yes I knew it was london but thought you'd like it there and decide to move anyway".
As if the streets of london are paved with gold and I'd be glad to get away from my sheep infested cave in wales.
Coughed up for my train fare though. I dread to think what the client said to them about the 1 minute interview wasting THEIR time as well.
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Originally posted by psychocandy View PostNow in this case I would have kicked off and wanted paying for wasted travelling....
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Originally posted by ATFC View PostI feel your pain.
Last week I turned up at an interview only to find out the client had booked it in his diary for the wrong day so wasn't there!
Went back the next day and the recruiter hadn't told the client I would only take the contract on a day rate! agh!!
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As and when can you update the post to let us know what happened ?
Did you ask for expenses to be paid and what did they say ?
i fear my skills and seniority are not sufficient for me to demand such things...
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Normally it's on your own expense, if they offer to pay for it just accept it, but always assume and it's in 99% of interviews the case you have to pay it your self and you put it on your business expenses
I have had two or three occasions where I had to travel for several hours, drive hundreds of miles to find out the client had "forgotten" there was an interview or claimed he didn't know, the agency hadn't informed them. In those cases I send a bill for wasting my time and my expenses to the agency, not that they ever pay though, not chasing them to pay either, it's just to make a point
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Originally posted by mudskipper View PostIf you cannot/will not attend the interview unless they pay expenses then option 1 would be to see if skype/online interview is possible.
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What % of day rate if you got the contract would the travel cost be. 20% of first day max or something like that ?
Small fry as they say.
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