Reply to: Getting into office in snow!

[clearedforlanding]

Why do people not broach the WFH question about a week or two into the contract?

Why not BEFORE signing the contract?

[Lance]

Why do people do work at home and then find out their client isn't happy. Why haven't they rung their client at 8am to advise they will WFH and then find out at that point they are not required to do any work?

Deciding to WFH without advising the client is pretty poor relationship management.

Why do people not broach the WFH question about a week or two into the contract?

I’ve not had anything where I cannot do it for nearly 20 years, and 20 years ago I was setting up WFH systems for my then employer.

Current gig is contracted to WFH and client pays travel and accommodation if I leave the village.

[northernladuk]

Do you ask your accountant before making these phone calls?

[northernladyuk]

I knew some idiot would come up with that one.

Firstly, many contracts state that at least the agent is made aware early in the morning they will be absent.

Secondly, advising the client you won't be in first thing is a matter of courtesy and manners and has **** all to do with D&C. It also clears up any misconceptions or assumptions that would get the contractor in to the situation they are in. We've got not one, but two posts with the exact same situation. A courtesy call to the client would have cleared both up.

Do you ask your accountant before making these phone calls?

[northernladuk]

Spoken like a good little D&C permtractor.

I knew some idiot would come up with that one.

Firstly, many contracts state that at least the agent is made aware early in the morning they will be absent.

Secondly, advising the client you won't be in first thing is a matter of courtesy and manners and has **** all to do with D&C. It also clears up any misconceptions or assumptions that would get the contractor in to the situation they are in. We've got not one, but two posts with the exact same situation. A courtesy call to the client would have cleared both up.

[d000hg]

Why do people do work at home and then find out their client isn't happy. Why haven't they rung their client at 8am to advise they will WFH and then find out at that point they are not required to do any work?

Deciding to WFH without advising the client is pretty poor relationship management.

Spoken like a good little D&C permtractor.

[northernladyuk]

Shades of Emin. I imagine he's written the names of all the accountants he's asked questions of on the trap wall.

He's turned them into a word search grid.

[barrydidit]

He's got a grant for an avant garde installation from the Railway Art Tarts Trust.

Shades of Emin. I imagine he's written the names of all the accountants he's asked questions of on the trap wall.

[northernladyuk]

I heard he's frozen to the porcelain in Wigan Wallgate gents, so you'd have to travel to him.

He's got a grant for an avant garde installation from the Railway Art Tarts Trust.

[barrydidit]

In fact, add an extra tenner for my advice and I'll bill you separately. For twenty, the old man will throw in a happy finish.

I heard he's frozen to the porcelain in Wigan Wallgate gents, so you'd have to travel to him.

[ladymuck]

Jesus wept. The OP shows why some good contractors have been pushed out of contracting because hiring managers just take on the bottom feeders instead. The OP didnt go in due to being pissed up and now this?

I might be out of this charade now but it still boils my piss when I spot this stuff.

Different account. Maybe the same person but different user name. Definitely cut from the same cloth

[jamesbrown]

Why do people do work at home and then find out their client isn't happy. Why haven't they rung their client at 8am to advise they will WFH and then find out at that point they are not required to do any work?

Deciding to WFH without advising the client is pretty poor relationship management.

Because Gricer has zero imagination.

[jamesbrown]

Another one??? dear, oh dear

Indeed.

We mustn't mention the unmentionable, but the unmentionable really needs to happen to this twollock.

[ladymuck]

Why do people do work at home and then find out their client isn't happy. Why haven't they rung their client at 8am to advise they will WFH and then find out at that point they are not required to do any work?

Deciding to WFH without advising the client is pretty poor relationship management.

Totally agree.

[cojak]

I know this is General, but at least add a when you post that kind of stuff.