Reply to: Play fair

[d000hg]

Bear in mind that if you travelled to or fro on weekend days those days will count as well, also 4 months is likely to be more than 16 weeks unless all of them were February.

It's the latest wheeze in avoiding tax, you work 13 Februaries a year.

[NotAllThere]

WHS

If you're spending all what you earn from contracting and have no war chest and aren't having a wonderful time you're doing something very very wrong.

ftfy

[EternalOptimist]

I think suity forgets that he is running a professional business a business has 2 priorities - getting work and getting paid for that work. Everything else is secondary which is why I always check invoices have been received.

jeez, I am getting paid weekly at the mo. and it goes into my account within a few hours of me submitting, and I am STILL on top of it. checking at the end of friday.

[eek]

17K is way too far over exposed
sounds like you are invoicing at the end of the month then waiting 2-3 months to be paid ?

and now this gig is bailing the previous one out ?


if it were me, I would be having sleepless nights, I dont care how big the agency was

I think suity forgets that he is running a professional business and a business has 2 priorities - getting work and getting paid for that work. Everything else is secondary which is why I always check invoices have been received.

[EternalOptimist]

17K is way too far over exposed
sounds like you are invoicing at the end of the month then waiting 2-3 months to be paid ?

and now this gig is bailing the previous one out ?


if it were me, I would be having sleepless nights, I dont care how big the agency was

[doodab]

183 days is 6 months.

I was there for 4. 5 days a week.

16 x 5 = 80

HTH

Bear in mind that if you travelled to or fro on weekend days those days will count as well, also 4 months is likely to be more than 16 weeks unless all of them were February.

[MarillionFan]

I've always ignored that issue as I find it very hard to believe. For me 1 invoice =2.5-3 months living expenses. I really can't see how you can contract for a long time and not have a substantial warchest.

WHS

If you're spending all what you earn from contracting and have no war chest you're doing something very very wrong.

[eek]

Rather than mocking you for a simple mistake and showing incredulity you are living hand-to-mouth on your contracting invoices in the first place, I am going to suggest you just take out a loan that will allow you to pay it back in a month cheaply.

I've always ignored that issue as I find it very hard to believe. For me 1 invoice =2.5-3 months living expenses. I really can't see how you can contract for a long time and not have a substantial warchest.

[NotAllThere]

Try www.loansharksRus.com

[d000hg]

Rather than mocking you for a simple mistake and showing incredulity you are living hand-to-mouth on your contracting invoices in the first place, I am going to suggest you just take out a loan that will allow you to pay it back in a month cheaply.

[fullyautomatix]

On paper I'm owed 17K.

This is a short term cash flow problem. I am a bonehead for not checking, but the agency is a big concern so would have thought they would be able to negotiate.

Little guy gets ****ed.

It was only your last timesheet that is delayed isnt it ? You are owed 17K on that ?

[BrilloPad]

I'm still quite green here but is the OP for real?

There are some very freaky people here. Oddly most seem quite normal in real life.

[Mephisto]

Neither can I, because words fail me. It's beyond parody.

I'm still quite green here but is the OP for real? This and the 'no-one knows what they're doing but me' rant posts are making me sense a pattern.

Or rather smell one....

[suityou01]

Neither can I, because words fail me. It's beyond parody.

You are a rotten egg.

I am suity, you all love me and you know it. Now shush.

[sasguru]

Can't quite bring myself to take the pee on this one. Hope you get it sorted SY.

Neither can I, because words fail me. It's beyond parody.