actually the reason you seen bad comments about them is that their so gosh darned bad - its great you get your own business manage - me I would prefer the whole department to be able to pick up my file and sort my money out, rahter than one person whos "on the other line", "out for a smoke", "in a meeting" - Im sure youll get a phone call back.
Personal mobile number, fantastic, the tssers I dealt with left after 2 months, the new guy who took over lasted another 3 mnths. Continuity of staff means a lot - my umbrella staffs turnover is very small, in the last 4 years its been 2 (at most).
As im sure is posted somewhere else on the forums - do your own research, if there are a lot of people who have had problems with them in the past then its one to approach tentertatively and not at full tilt.
and I also think their late for their returns - now this really dosent boad well for P4
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gosh an umbrella company rather than an agency - probably thats where I went wrong - ........................ or maybe I got my words muddle
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Originally posted by chunkymonkeyI agree with Denny, its a shame that such blood sucking agencies are still around and people are still using them, Im glad in one sense that I had this experieicne at the begining of my career on a relatively low rate, I would hate to get stumped nowdays - at least the agency I use today is very upfront.
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I agree with Denny, its a shame that such blood sucking agencies are still around and people are still using them, Im glad in one sense that I had this experieicne at the begining of my career on a relatively low rate, I would hate to get stumped nowdays - at least the agency I use today is very upfront.
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Originally posted by DennyI would tell them I would gladly refund the money to them provided they had unequivocal proof they had closed their business down in the first place and gone after every other contractor on their books.
good on yer Denny, whats prison food like these days?
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Originally posted by chunkymonkeyYES - I must hold my hand up and say yep this is possible as I was one of those contractors who did it, the Umbrella involved was Prosperity4 and the low down was -
they invoiced the business for the full rate
you got paid minimum wage so your tax and NI were covered
your travelling and other "expenses" (mostly made up by them - very creativly) was reimburesed in a very convoluted round the houses way over a 2 month period
Im still owed £500+ from these fcks - you need to have the expenses to get reimburesed everymonth - if not it gets "held" until you have enough made up.
on a side note when i phoned up to find out when (if ever) i was going to be paid, the oik on the other end of the phone said "You should be grateful were giving you any money at all", I was young, naive and lost my way to their offices or someone would have got a kicking that day, that was alos the day I left and joined OG
DO NOT GO DOWN THIS ROUTE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD JUST WALK AWAY
IR caught up with me 3 years later, luckily it was a short contract and only owed £200, plus £75 for the NI to get me back on the straight and narrow
Perhaps they think they're onto a winner: full tax and NI from contractors eventually plus they get their share of corporation tax from the organisations that set out to deceive us in the first place.
My take on this is this: if the IR ever got in touch for backtax or IR after using one of these operations I would tell them I would gladly refund the money to them provided they had unequivocal proof they had closed their business down in the first place and gone after every other contractor on their books.
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Originally posted by TrollI thought Green Lantern was one of DC's weaker publications - poor storylines etc
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I thought Green Lantern was one of DC's weaker publications - poor storylines etc
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YES - I must hold my hand up and say yep this is possible as I was one of those contractors who did it, the Umbrella involved was Prosperity4 and the low down was -
they invoiced the business for the full rate
you got paid minimum wage so your tax and NI were covered
your travelling and other "expenses" (mostly made up by them - very creativly) was reimburesed in a very convoluted round the houses way over a 2 month period
Im still owed £500+ from these fcks - you need to have the expenses to get reimburesed everymonth - if not it gets "held" until you have enough made up.
on a side note when i phoned up to find out when (if ever) i was going to be paid, the oik on the other end of the phone said "You should be grateful were giving you any money at all", I was young, naive and lost my way to their offices or someone would have got a kicking that day, that was alos the day I left and joined OG
DO NOT GO DOWN THIS ROUTE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD JUST WALK AWAY
IR caught up with me 3 years later, luckily it was a short contract and only owed £200, plus £75 for the NI to get me back on the straight and narrow
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Dull thudding noise as head hits wall yet again...
When will you people ever learn?
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I've just started using GL35, and they seem okay, but I can't give a definitive answer yet. Though when I sent my first timesheet they'd sent the invoice to the agency within half an hour, which is pretty good I think. I'll see how they do with money coming the other way. They certainly don't pay unlimited expenses. They can't. It's the usual stuff, 40p per mile for the first 10k, then 25p after that. Subsistence allowance, etc etc.
Quote from their bunf - "We cannot validate an expense claim without a receipt. This is an Inland Revenue rule".
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I remember a post on here a few months ago, with almost exactly the same wording... 'I was talking etc etc £1000 a month more than me ....blah blah' ... suspicious, moi...?
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