Is this you?

[BrilloPad]

http://www.itcontractor.com/Articles...50&photopage=0

We picked up some correspondence from another site where an IT contractor on a daily rate was being asked to do unpaid overtime

I wonder which site that was?

[KathyWoolfe]

I don't mind doing the extra hour or two in the course of a week for the good of the client - on the strict understanding that I'll make it back by leaving early on other occasions.

If the client isn't OK with that then they'll get the contracted time, no more, no less. Additional time is available at a higher charge.

I agree...if they start taking liberties then they get the standard time, no more, no less.

[d000hg]

I log the number of hours I work on each contract (I'm working for several clients at the same time), and submit this data to each client, who then pay me. So yes, I get paid exactly how many hours I work. Well, plus I guess I get paid to make cups of tea... it's tricky when you're paid by the hour to know whether those 5 minute breaks should be charged or not. I work from home so it's entirely down to me being honest and my clients trusting me.

I may only get the equivalent of £200 a day but I can go out for coffee in an afternoon and then work in the evening - in fact I just got an email from a team-mate in the US and spent an hour coding in Flex at 1am!

[thunderlizard]

paid by the hour

But are you really...meaning that your personal monthly salary is directly proportional to the number of hours you've worked? Even though lots of contractors get charged out hourly by their companies, it's rare to see one actually getting paid personally by the hour.

[d000hg]

I am paid by the hour, so unpaid overtime is impossible by definition.

Me too.

[NickFitz]

I don't mind doing the extra hour or two in the course of a week for the good of the client - on the strict understanding that I'll make it back by leaving early on other occasions.

If the client isn't OK with that then they'll get the contracted time, no more, no less. Additional time is available at a higher charge.

[ThomasSoerensen]

I am paid by the hour, so unpaid overtime is impossible by definition.

[BrilloPad]

Afraid I do about n hour a day extra for free

[Sockpuppet]

Used to put nearly £8k a year in overtime in. Did that for 12 months realised that I wasn't being appreciated. Was on the grad scheme so thought that it mattered.

Had a "disagreement" with the graduate management team - got fired*.

Few months later after 2 contracts I got asked to go back by a HR muppet. They offered me more per day than I used to get per week doing a higher job than the guy that fired* me. Turned it down as it had "bad idea" written all over it and seemed like it would have just been me making enemies for myself which is never a good idea.

All the graduates that stayed got offered jobs that meant they took a pay cut from the £25k roles they had.

So moral of the story. Work hard. Leech all the info that you can and then **** them over for more money.




* I say fired. I really mean compromise agreement and offered a wad not to turn upto work again.

[tay]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...cs.tradeunions

About 5 million UK workers are putting in the equivalent of almost £5,000 a year each in unpaid overtime, according to research by the TUC published today.


No thought not.

Permies eh? Bless em.

The other day I worked over my normal 7 hours by 10 minutes. What a bloody liberty!!! But I was chatting to my boss and schmoozing.. so my fault really. Supposed to grease the renewal wheels in working hours.

[DimPrawn]

Is that a composite picture or does he really look like that?

It's a composite of bag-o-pus and sasguru I reckon.

[ratewhore]

I read it for a laugh.

My favourite today is :
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/...ts_please.html

Is that a composite picture or does he really look like that?

[DimPrawn]

It's from the Guardian, prawn...

I read it for a laugh.

My favourite today is :
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/...ts_please.html

[Lucy]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...cs.tradeunions

About 5 million UK workers are putting in the equivalent of almost £5,000 a year each in unpaid overtime, according to research by the TUC published today.


No thought not.

Permies eh? Bless em.

It's from the Guardian, prawn...

[DimPrawn]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...cs.tradeunions

About 5 million UK workers are putting in the equivalent of almost £5,000 a year each in unpaid overtime, according to research by the TUC published today.


No thought not.

Permies eh? Bless em.