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If you were attending meetings and reading documentation then you charge them. However if the project is over then stop.
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Originally posted by chirag2205 View Post
Yes, I do have and funny enough they just came back stating that calling the service desk, going through the documentation, attending meetings won't take the full 8 hours. So I should adjust hours accordingly like 1 hour or 2 hours but not 8 hours.
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Originally posted by chirag2205 View Post
Yes, I do have and funny enough they just came back stating that calling the service desk, going through the documentation, attending meetings won't take the full 8 hours. So I should adjust hours accordingly like 1 hour or 2 hours but not 8 hours.
That said if your T&M contract is actually set up for hours rather than days then maybe I'd not do the above.
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Originally posted by malvolio View Post
Yes it is, but time spent in a productive manner, not time spent sitting at a desk waiting to be productive. Unless it's the world's worst contract - and even if it is it will be somewhere in the client's engagement Ts&Cs that time spent should be to the client's advantage.
This is rather more complicated than the OP first said. As usual, more details emerge and change the original advice.
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Originally posted by northernladuk View PostIsn't the clue here in the fact it's a T&M contract? You know, Time and Materials. That's kinda the whole point of a T&M that you get paid for the time you work.
This is rather more complicated than the OP first said. As usual, more details emerge and change the original advice.
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Originally posted by Lance View Post
then you can bill it. Do you have any evidence of the work? Just send that to supplement the invoice.
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Originally posted by chirag2205 View Post
During those 3 days I was asked to go through the documentation which I did, and was chasing their Service Desk to sort out my access to their environments.
However turning other work down is rather more problematic since that is not their concern. You could, for example, have subbed out some of that other work. What does the contract say about consequential losses and force majeure?
Anyway, all a bit academic. If you want to continue with that client, negotiate on the basis that you spent time on their systems and minimise - not remove - your "losses". If you don't want to keep then on board you will spend more than three days costs and your own time trying to recover them so walk away.
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Originally posted by cannon999 View PostI disagree with all the comments, this depends on the specifics of the contract. If you have reserved my time for 10 days and I have potentially turned down other jobs - you are paying for it regardless of whether you have wasted it or not.
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Originally posted by cannon999 View PostIf you have reserved my time for 10 days and I have potentially turned down other jobs - you are paying for it regardless of whether you have wasted it or not.
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Originally posted by chirag2205 View Post
During those 3 days I was asked to go through the documentation which I did, and was chasing their Service Desk to sort out my access to their environments.
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Originally posted by northernladuk View PostIsn't the clue here in the fact it's a T&M contract? You know, Time and Materials. That's kinda the whole point of a T&M that you get paid for the time you work. If you didn't you aren't owed a jot. It wouldn't be T&M if you contracted for 10 days and expected 10 days pay for nothing. Pretty fundamental stuff this really.
If you read your contract there should be a clause saying something around you getting paid upon receipt of a signed timesheet. You don't work, no signed timesheet, no pay. It's how we've always worked.
If you don't like not getting paid for work you didn't do don't take Time and Material contracts.
You could say it's nothing to do with 'unfair'. Unfortunate maybe but it's the whole point of T&M and these things happen. You can't complain something is unfair when it's all laid out in the contract in black and white that the OP signed. To be fair to the OP they didn't claim it was a scam or illegal
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Originally posted by malvolio View PostYou're being paid to deliver stuff, not to sit in a chair in case you're needed for 20 days.
Yes it's their fault you didn't do any work, but the fact remains you didn't do any. If you want to be paid for doing nothing, then go permie.
Yes, it's unfair, but that's the nature of being an independent. Welcome to reality.
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Originally posted by Lance View Postdid you work during the delay?
Or did you just burn their time doing nothing?
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Originally posted by Lance View Post
that's the key phrase.
When you're on a customer site waiting then billing for it is fine. But one of the reasons I like the T&M contracts is I can do several in parallel whilst working from home. The client gets the benefit of the additional flexibility, and I get the other benefits.
Sounds like the OPs real problem is not having another one or two of these.
I can repurpose the rest of the week but the initial day - it's probably too late.
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I disagree with all the comments, this depends on the specifics of the contract. If you have reserved my time for 10 days and I have potentially turned down other jobs - you are paying for it regardless of whether you have wasted it or not.
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