Ever faked a Death in the Family to get out of a Contract?

[quackhandle]

Did his step brother own a sea canoe?

qh

[Dark Black]

Why even think of faking something like this? Just MTFU and bin the gig.

Even if there's no notice period on the contractor side I'm sure there's plenty of other thing to be done that will lead to the client ditching you...

[BigRed]

Don't need to really, I've got so many Aunts there's always one of them or their husbands popping their clogs or being rushed to hospital. I've reached the age where family get togethers are funerals, not weddings or christenings.

[greenlake]

Every day I contract

[MrMarkyMark]

Has Anyone Ever Killed Anyone to Get Out of a Contract?

[BrilloPad]

Why does the client want him back?

Is his agency silverlink?

[scooterscot]

No no and no - man that's low. Wait until the day real grief strikes. You'll never pretend again.

[MarillionFan]

Every time you post we do as well

Well in your case I may up the posts a bit more then :-)

[northernladuk]

Every day I contract I die a little more.

Every time you post we do as well

[MarillionFan]

Every day I contract I die a little more.

[northernladyuk]

A friend of mine (non-contractor) told me about a contractor where he works who rang into client telling him that his step brother had died and he wouldn't know when he woud be back in work. It was no secret that he was known by colleagues to hate the gig and would constantly complain about the travel. When he did not call our contact the client for over 2 weeks they asked for a death certificate as proof and became insistent that he come back soon to continue his contract which he had not long started. Personally, regardless of what a schmuck this guy has been and resorting to such desperate measures I didn't think the client could legally do this? Interested to hear other people's stories and have you done anything similar yourself to jump ship from a horror gig?

I once paid to have the old man whacked to get out of a contract, but they ended up trafficking him to Turkmenistan. The good-for-nothing sod turned up on my doorstep five years later with a sheepish look on his face, a new gender and a number of 'social diseases'.

[northernladuk]

Can we move this to general please?

[Big Blue Plymouth]

No, it's too much like crying wolf.

[VectraMan]

Better to fake your own death I would think.

[Willy Win]

A friend of mine (non-contractor) told me about a contractor where he works who rang into client telling him that his step brother had died and he wouldn't know when he woud be back in work. It was no secret that he was known by colleagues to hate the gig and would constantly complain about the travel. When he did not call our contact the client for over 2 weeks they asked for a death certificate as proof and became insistent that he come back soon to continue his contract which he had not long started. Personally, regardless of what a schmuck this guy has been and resorting to such desperate measures I didn't think the client could legally do this? Interested to hear other people's stories and have you done anything similar yourself to jump ship from a horror gig?