Reply to: The 'Are you in contract?' Poll

[Svalbaard]

Yes, since Feb - and have just had my extension come through.

[Churchill]

Where's the "I'm too old to be a contractor" option?

[VectraMan]

Three months left. I thought it was going to end early, but it now seems they want to keep me and likely offer an extension. I've not decided whether I feel that's good news or bad.

[chef]

wooohoooo,

2 days in looking and contract is signed 'n' sent

3 months, Soho based, telecoms/broadband provider

only downside is the trudge down into the big smoke, i never miss the smell of armpits on the morning tube

[Cowboy Bob]

Still in contract for another 3 weeks. Started looking for the next gig today...

[TheFaQQer]

Having answered "Yes", now it's a "no" - until agency can sort out the paperwork that details where I'm working, for how long, and for how much.

Contract is already in place, they just can't sort out the paperwork for an extension after it ran out on Friday. Spoke to them Thursday and they said "we'll try and get the paperwork sorted, but we're a bit busy at the moment..."

Client will not be happy, since deadline is this Friday, started work on this piece on Friday with a nine day estimate, and I'm not there!

[wendigo100]

Actually I never really voted for AndyW, but the question still holds...

[wendigo100]

Can you update replies in a poll? I'm not AndyW any more, but gainfully working.

[FiveTimes]

Less that 2 weeks to go on the current gig, there have been talks about renewal but nothing yet.
If things don't get sorted out soon then a couple of weeks on the bench

[Robster]

Maybe people's On Bench/Working status could be added as forum a profile field.

any thoughts?

[NickFitz]

NickFitz: good for you, which industry to you work in? don't think I can get away with a website delivery taking 2 years to be delivered in the finance industry !

Actually it was 34 websites driven by one overarching system - it was a large commercial radio operator, and the sites were for a load of their local radio stations. Current contract is with an international company whose name ends with an exclamation mark, but I probably shouldn't say any more

Work from home is grand, you are so lucky, would love to work from home sometime - arsehole bankers wont let me

It is great for the most part, although sometimes it's nice to get in to the office and catch up with people in meatspace as well - just for a day or two, nothing excessive.

Never worked in the financial sector, so my only experience of having my day ruined by bankers is in the field of bounced cheques and withdrawn overdraft facilities

Still, not much chance of that these days

[SandyDown]

NickFitz: good for you, which industry to you work in? don't think I can get away with a website delivery taking 2 years to be delivered in the finance industry !


Work from home is grand, you are so lucky, would love to work from home sometime - arsehole bankers wont let me

[NickFitz]

Just curious. How come it takes you over two years to write bits of code or in fact any other deliverable? or are you in support and maintenance?

I'm a web applications developer. The project I initially went there to work on ran on quite a bit longer than expected (8 months total) because several of their top people left at the same time and the remaining team members had to do all the new stuff while keeping lots of existing stuff working.

After that they kept me on to work (from home, usually) on a procession of further smaller projects; they just couldn't bear to say good bye, I suppose

forgot to say congrats

Thanks

[SandyDown]

My last contract, which had been renewed without fail every 8 weeks for nearly two years, came up for review the same week that the client reported a significant fall in profits. I'd been working from home for ages, and it was only on the following Tuesday lunchtime that I found out it hadn't been renewed - the pimp thought the client had told me, the client thought the pimp had

I was going to a conference later that week anyway and finished up landing a lucrative pimp-free contract with a trophy client over a few pints in the pub afterwards

Just curious. How come it takes you over two years to write bits of code or in fact any other deliverable? or are you in support and maintenance?

forgot to say congrats

[NickFitz]

My last contract, which had been renewed without fail every 8 weeks for nearly two years, came up for review the same week that the client reported a significant fall in profits. I'd been working from home for ages, and it was only on the following Tuesday lunchtime that I found out it hadn't been renewed - the pimp thought the client had told me, the client thought the pimp had

I was going to a conference later that week anyway and finished up landing a lucrative pimp-free contract with a trophy client over a few pints in the pub afterwards