The 10% enforced cuts along with expecting you to just roll over and take it (despite you pointing out the cut meant you were looking elsewhere) is typical of the way a lot of the banks are operating these days.
They figure that because the market is bad they can cut your rate and you'll just get on with it. In other words they took a gamble and it didn't pay off.
Your ex manager is a bad loser, because at the end of the day they know they have a hassle on thier hands in replacing you and the real chance that they may end up paying more than the 10% they cut from you in pimp fees etc.
You acted professionally so I wouldn't worry about it.
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I wouldnt worry about it, im sure they wouldnt if the shoe was on the other foot. I think you acted professionally and it is they that messed up. Im also glad that youre sending a clear message that riding rough-shod over contractors / enforcing rate cuts doesnt always work.
Ive been on the other end, enforced rate cuts, contracts ended at short notice etc, myself and many other contractors were treated like $hit by a certain manager/particular bank.
Like others have said, with a big bank, people move on, so many depts etc no one will remember, its not like they have a blacklist!
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Business is business.
Purely down to the manager in charge of ensuring you were renewed.
Happened to me last year. Contract due to finish. There was extra work in the pipeline at the client, lots of noise, but the contract renewal didn't come. I asked a few times, but still nothing concrete. Come the last week I started phoning around and secured another gig with an immediate start on the Monday. Told the client, I was looking. Come Friday, he waltzes back in and says, nothing for you next week but I'm hoping to get something sorted week after next, is that OK?
Sorry, already sorted was my reply.
Lots of 'but','but' from the client and I told them straight that I'm a business and hopefully we can do something in 3 months or so.
As it happens it was five months later before we could tie up again and I've now been at this gig all year. They also make sure that they get renewals sorted earlier now as well :-)
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Originally posted by apb View PostThat was my concern. Whist I had said I was actively looking, I didn't think I needed to provide any more detail than that as the information could effectively be used against me.
It was obvious there was no negotiation on the rate cut so this information could not be used as a bargaining point.
ClientCo-2 had a 3 year contractor policy, 3 years came up but they still offered me a 6 month extension, I left anyway cos I needed a change, but the offer outside their normal policy was there.
GL in your new role. Business is business. They didn't work fast enough.
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Was it Lloyds per chance? I understand that they are implementing 10% cuts across the board for contractors.
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Personally, I would want nothing more to do with a company that thought they could renege on the agreed price for a job.
Your only issue was not managing the chap better.
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostIf might have hurt. They might have decided because you were looking elsewhere they'd hand the renewal to someone else instead.
It was obvious there was no negotiation on the rate cut so this information could not be used as a bargaining point.
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Originally posted by northernladuk View PostAs TheFaQQer points out it wouldn't have hurt to advise the client of your situation, might even have helped your cause rate/timings wise. If you want to be very hard nosed about it yes it is just business but setting expecations can make it a lot easier.
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Originally posted by apb View PostI would welcome your views.
I would make a special point of following through with a letter for your records, as to me this is perfect proof of being outside of IR35 re mutuality of obligation. They offered more work, you refused it. Im proud of ya.
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Originally posted by apb View PostI informed my manager on Wednesday that I would not be renewing - he was shocked, and stated that I should be completing a 4 week notice period to which I said that would not be possible and that I am outside of contract, so notice does not apply - at which point he advised I would never work for them again and slammed the phone down on me!
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In defence of the manager he probably would have had you renewed weeks ago but sign off can be hard to achieve in organisations.
Still, not the OPs fault though.
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Originally posted by apb View PostI stated a number of times to my line manager that due to the rate cut and uncertainty around the extension I would be actively looking for alternate contracts
The manager should have been aware of the situation HE/the decision makers were putting him in.
It sounds like the manager has no clue how contracts work, made a huge assumption about you, and had no plan in place to deal with what would happen should you not renew, hence the bluster about never working for them again.
There wasn't really a 'I won't bs available next week' - you didn't have a contract - it expired and it wasn't til the following weds/thurs the new one could be in place.
Maybe if you had worded it better the manger would have realised, but still their fault.Last edited by jmo21; 4 November 2011, 21:38.
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Originally posted by Pork BellyHypothetically, if you'd known in advance that your manager was going to respond in the way he did, would you have made a different decision?
I'm guessing it would have made absolutely no difference at all.
If he wants to act that way then that's fine as long as I maintain my professionalism and move on, in some way it makes me think I made the right decision.
My loyalty is to providing for my family and hence going for the better rate, not for a bank that would dump me as quick as you like if it suited them.
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Quite possible one department were aware, and the PM assumed it was all being sorted out. Nothing done wrong there, though buttering the guy up with a frank explanation and buying him a beer might be a good idea, if he's got caught out and is just annoyed his plans are now messed up.
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Originally posted by apb View Postat which point he advised I would never work for them again and slammed the phone down on me!
Wouldn't worry about 'burning bridges', look ater #1.
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