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yeh sounds like it was always going to be a month but they know that advertise it as a month and no-ones interested.
Pretty tulipty way to do business.
Imagine contractor doing same. Starting a 3 month knowing in a months time they'll drop it because they've got something else starting. Client would go nuts if someone did this.
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Some clients just keep you contracted until the work runs out and then serve notice. Happened to me a couple of times, both of which weren't particularly good payers.
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Originally posted by 7specialgems View PostNo, their cousins HQ'd in Virginia.
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Originally posted by scooterscot View PostLockheed? They did it me years and years ago.
Would not work for them again if offered.
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Originally posted by 7specialgems View PostTop 10 aerospace firm, American outfit. They know the game...
Would not work for them again if offered.Last edited by scooterscot; 2 October 2014, 15:50.
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Originally posted by zeitghostNSA?
Less Aerospace, more Defense I guess.
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Originally posted by zemoxyl View PostIt's happened to me. Twice. Once at a major UK corp where they cut 90% of the contractors on site. Latterly Bob-filled as required.
Annoying : but goes with the territory.
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Originally posted by Churchill View PostLockheed by any chance?
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It's happened to me. Twice. Once at a major UK corp where they cut 90% of the contractors on site. Latterly Bob-filled as required.
Annoying : but goes with the territory.
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That's the way it goes
I once got taken on by a client for a six month project, but they hired me before it had got final approval. After a week, it was decided to postpone the project for at least six months, so I was suddenly surplus to requirements.
Onwards and upwards!
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Originally posted by 7specialgems View PostI'm good for 12 months and I'll be taking at last one month off, I think
It's one of those things but the rigmarole of interviewing, IR35 assurance, then really going to ground with the domain and building relationships, only for it to transpire after five weeks that you were never going to be there beyond their Mythical Man Month "throw people at the problem" panic phase, leaves a bad taste.
It's a tulipy practice but it goes with the territory. Just wondered how rife it is...
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