Reply to: Tricky Situation..but I am happy to be in.!! Any advice highly appreciated...

[WTFH]

I'm not sure how our idiot friend qualifies re. the "Rambo" bit, but I'm liking the cut of yer jib, Sir...

I wasn’t implying that our friend was muscular and liked sheep shagging, but more that the only “Lambo” I suspect he could ever have would be a sheep with muscles.

(I believe that Sheep with Muscles is on the menu of the Celebrity MasterShout final tonight)

[Mordac]

I think he means he’s got one of these:


Sheep + Rambo = Lambo

I'm not sure how our idiot friend qualifies re. the "Rambo" bit, but I'm liking the cut of yer jib, Sir...

[WTFH]

No issue with car park @ Option-2. Plenty of place s there, sure will get a secure place for my Lambo!

I bet mine's better than yours...

I think he means he’s got one of these:


Sheep + Rambo = Lambo

[Mordac]

No issue with car park @ Option-2. Plenty of place s there, sure will get a secure place for my Lambo!

I bet mine's better than yours...

[northernladuk]

Come on guys, if you look objectively my plan will work well for all parties involved. I am certain this will be the way 99% people if this forum will be doing/thinking as well.
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These types posts really frustrate me. You've been told over and over again by many people it won't work out well for all parties with clear explainations of why and the fact these people say that clearly shows 99% of people wouldn't. They would use the delaying tactic as explained and you glossed over.

How can you be so deluded you can't take on board any of the feedback from multiple people that is exactly the opposite to your opinion.

[Lance]

Have you told the second client that you will be leaving them as soon as your SC comes through, or are you just saying “screw them, they can onboard me for 2 weeks then I’ll run away having wasted their time and money.”

that's the sort of situation where a client may refuse to pay, time sheets signed or not. After 2 weeks the OP would be unlikely to have actually delivered anything against the SoW, and there are other clauses in most contracts about quality of work, and fixing errors for free. If I was the client I'd tell the agent that it's a breach and they can whistle for the money.

[PhiltheGreek]

all done very well

In that case, we'd all be interested to hear about your *****-ups.

[northernladyuk]

Come on guys, if you look objectively my plan will work well for all parties involved. I am certain this will be the way 99% people if this forum will be doing/thinking as well.

Yes, I made a school boy error by not reading the contract thoroughly, but rest all done very well.

Should we look objectively at your plan in isolation, or within the context of a reasonable assessment of your capabilities?

[WTFH]

Come on guys, if you look objectively my plan will work well for all parties involved. I am certain this will be the way 99% people if this forum will be doing/thinking as well.

Yes, I made a school boy error by not reading the contract thoroughly, but rest all done very well.

Have you told the second client that you will be leaving them as soon as your SC comes through, or are you just saying “screw them, they can onboard me for 2 weeks then I’ll run away having wasted their time and money.”

[Darren_Test]

You turning up on site means someone has lost out...

Come on guys, if you look objectively my plan will work well for all parties involved. I am certain this will be the way 99% people if this forum will be doing/thinking as well.

Yes, I made a school boy error by not reading the contract thoroughly, but rest all done very well.

[northernladyuk]

Come on Old Greg. Tell me this is one of your trolling sockies and you got me hook line and sinker. No one can be this dumb.

That dreary old queen lacks the imagination.

[northernladuk]

I have a plan to make this win-win for all involved.

You turning up on site means someone has lost out...

[northernladuk]

Come on Old Greg. Tell me this is one of your trolling sockies and you got me hook line and sinker. No one can be this dumb.

[northernladuk]

Contract -1 will be void if they can't get me start by the promised contract start date..

WTF is wrong with you? Are you completely brain dead or something. No it won't!!

Using your some logic. If the SC comes though and the date you can start after you've worked your two weeks notice is after the start date does that make it void? If there is such a thing.

[Darren_Test]

If a client hired me for a three month forklift infrastructure upgrade, I got two weeks in (pretty much the time it takes to onboard you and familiarise yourself with their infra) and I then handed in my notice, that wouldn't be helpful in the slightest! All doing that does is delay your clients project while you have a couple of easy weeks at a desk learning the specifics of the environment you're in.

Contracting is tough! Whilst you were on the bench you should've been doing what I said earlier; greasing up your contacts, working your LinkedIn profile, hell - go and do some voluntary work! You never know who you may meet as a result of doing things like that.

I've been in a situation where i've been between jobs (not gigs, this was back in permie land) and to cover off some of my shortfall I went and worked on a building site for a few weeks. If you're that desperate for the money, there are better ways to make up the shortfall than shafting clients in our industry.

Oh and one more thing - people with no ethics like you give the rest of us a bad name; if you have a client who doesn't use contractors that often and you screw them over, they are far less likely to consider using a contractor again because they got burnt the first time. So well done - your tulip approach to business doesn't just effect you, but all of us to some extent.

I have a plan to make this win-win for all involved.