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Originally posted by SimonMac View PostIf you believe that you are doing contracting wrong, I have a tulip ton of holidays as a contractor.
One of the reasons I have a house in Spain is I tell clients I am on holiday and unavailable, I don’t ask if it’s ok
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Originally posted by fiisch View PostCancel your plans and honour the contract you've committed to.
You need to stop thinking like a permie - contractors don't get "holiday". Has 23k+ posts on these pages taught you nothing?!
One of the reasons I have a house in Spain is I tell clients I am on holiday and unavailable, I don’t ask if it’s ok
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Originally posted by fiisch View PostCancel your plans and honour the contract you've committed to.
You need to stop thinking like a permie - contractors don't get "holiday". Has 23k+ posts on these pages taught you nothing?!
Speaking of Holidays - sure contractors have them, one of the best parts of being a contractor vs permie is that you don't have to rely on approval to do so.
You are probably confusing Holiday with leave/annual leave.
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Cancel your plans and honour the contract you've committed to.
You need to stop thinking like a permie - contractors don't get "holiday". Has 23k+ posts on these pages taught you nothing?!
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Originally posted by psychocandy View PostYeh I'd tell the client as someone else said "Im sure agent has told you etc".
I've had agents do this twice to me. I guess they are thinking "Oh no, I've sorted the deal and now this dumbass contractor is putting a spanner in there by wanting two weeks off. It might upset the client and they pull it".
So they don't tell the client at all. They're thinking, I guess, is get the contractor on site and started and deny all knowledge. Once the contractor is there, then if client kicks off and moans about contractors not telling them then contractor will have to cancel they're holidays.... Or sort it out themselves.
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Yeh I'd tell the client as someone else said "Im sure agent has told you etc".
I've had agents do this twice to me. I guess they are thinking "Oh no, I've sorted the deal and now this dumbass contractor is putting a spanner in there by wanting two weeks off. It might upset the client and they pull it".
So they don't tell the client at all. They're thinking, I guess, is get the contractor on site and started and deny all knowledge. Once the contractor is there, then if client kicks off and moans about contractors not telling them then contractor will have to cancel they're holidays.... Or sort it out themselves.
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Originally posted by SimonMac View PostProvisionally boomed to start on the 29th, during the initial discussions with the agent I mentioned I had the last two weeks of August booked to go away. Turns out he hasn’t informed the client so they don’t know, I never mentioned it in the interview as it wasn’t asked (ok possibly my bad on that one)
Would you bypass the agent and contact the client advising them of the holiday, or rock up on day one and say any the way in three weeks time I’m buggering off for a fortnight?
don't jeapordise the engagement.....
It's the agent's fauilt for not informing.
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Originally posted by SimonMac View PostProvisionally boomed to start on the 29th, during the initial discussions with the agent I mentioned I had the last two weeks of August booked to go away. Turns out he hasn’t informed the client so they don’t know, I never mentioned it in the interview as it wasn’t asked (ok possibly my bad on that one)
Would you bypass the agent and contact the client advising them of the holiday, or rock up on day one and say any the way in three weeks time I’m buggering off for a fortnight?
If you leave it to the agent then you don't know if the agent is going to drop you in it.
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Originally posted by SimonMac View PostProvisionally boomed to start on the 29th, during the initial discussions with the agent I mentioned I had the last two weeks of August booked to go away. Turns out he hasn’t informed the client so they don’t know, I never mentioned it in the interview as it wasn’t asked (ok possibly my bad on that one)
Would you bypass the agent and contact the client advising them of the holiday, or rock up on day one and say any the way in three weeks time I’m buggering off for a fortnight?
Failing that invoke the substitution clause. How many Gladiators have you currently got not bleeding radiators?
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By passing the agent after offer but before start date....
Provisionally boomed to start on the 29th, during the initial discussions with the agent I mentioned I had the last two weeks of August booked to go away. Turns out he hasn’t informed the client so they don’t know, I never mentioned it in the interview as it wasn’t asked (ok possibly my bad on that one)
Would you bypass the agent and contact the client advising them of the holiday, or rock up on day one and say any the way in three weeks time I’m buggering off for a fortnight?Tags: None
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