Being scammed for a fiver...

[Dr. Nick Riviera]

If you 've done a good job, play hard ball and go for 10%.
If you're on a "permie replacement" bi*chslap the pimp to cut their hard-earned margin. And go for 10%.
Did you see the totals billable on the procurement form?
Bet it's 4 to 500.

[fzbucks]

Who's the agent?

[BoredBloke]

If the client is offering 2%, wouldn't that be applied to the amount the client pays i.e. including the agents cut. So their margin would automatically get an extra 2%. Play hard ball and tell them you want the full 6 quid. Or play harder and tell them you want £7.50 or you'll walk. Afterall, their 'hard work' ended once that job was posted on jobserve. They have not done anything to secure your extension, so why should they get their full amount?

[Bluebird]

I think the operative word is 'ceiling'. The client may have only offered £1 a day increase and the agent, with the goodness of his heart, is passing on 100% to you. Or maybe it's £2 and he's keeping 50%. Or maybe it's £3 and he's keeping 66%. Or maybe ....

no, I've seen the procurement form - it's 2%

[oraclesmith]

Maybe the £1 is spare after the agent rounded up his take to the nearest 10%.

[Old Greg]

I think the operative word is 'ceiling'. The client may have only offered £1 a day increase and the agent, with the goodness of his heart, is passing on 100% to you. Or maybe it's £2 and he's keeping 50%. Or maybe it's £3 and he's keeping 66%. Or maybe ....

Good point. Maybe the client offered nothing but the kind-hearted agent is giving you a pound 'because you're worth it'.

[DodgyAgent]

. They'd sell their own grandmothers for that if they hadn't already done so.

With El duder thwere is a ready market

[oraclesmith]

I think the operative word is 'ceiling'. The client may have only offered £1 a day increase and the agent, with the goodness of his heart, is passing on 100% to you. Or maybe it's £2 and he's keeping 50%. Or maybe it's £3 and he's keeping 66%. Or maybe ....

[TheFaQQer]

Contract has just come up for renewal, been here nearly 12 months and the client has got a ceiling of 2% rate increases for any contractor - I'm on 300 a day so the increase from the client is £6.00 a day - the client has told me thats it.

Agent just phoned to say the client would only offer an extra £1.00 per day !!!!

Can't believe that the agent is will to try and scam me for a measly fiver !!

What a w******r !!!

What's their margin?

Get them to cut that slightly to round it to £305 or you'll walk...

[BA to the Stars]

Tell the pimp that the client has made you aware that it is £6 per day. Would the pimp rather you walk and then waste time recruiting a new contractor (loss of pimp income during down-time) and they may even lose the gig. Call his bluff and say that you want the fiver a day and he can have the £1

[Old Greg]

Contract has just come up for renewal, been here nearly 12 months and the client has got a ceiling of 2% rate increases for any contractor - I'm on 300 a day so the increase from the client is £6.00 a day - the client has told me thats it.

Agent just phoned to say the client would only offer an extra £1.00 per day !!!!

Can't believe that the agent is will to try and scam me for a measly fiver !!

What a w******r !!!

It's a fiver a day, not a fiver. They'd sell their own grandmothers for that if they hadn't already done so.

[Let-Me-In]

Contract has just come up for renewal, been here nearly 12 months and the client has got a ceiling of 2% rate increases for any contractor - I'm on 300 a day so the increase from the client is £6.00 a day - the client has told me thats it.

Agent just phoned to say the client would only offer an extra £1.00 per day !!!!

Can't believe that the agent is will to try and scam me for a measly fiver !!

What a w******r !!!

That's an agent for you....I blame the parents though!!!

[Bluebird]

Contract has just come up for renewal, been here nearly 12 months and the client has got a ceiling of 2% rate increases for any contractor - I'm on 300 a day so the increase from the client is £6.00 a day - the client has told me thats it.

Agent just phoned to say the client would only offer an extra £1.00 per day !!!!

Can't believe that the agent is will to try and scam me for a measly fiver !!

What a w******r !!!