Don't you just hate it when...

[Paddy]

...a client gets in touch with you before the project has even began, to say that you're not needed

It happens to us all

[AtW]

...a client gets in touch with you before the project has even began, to say that you're not needed

Charge them hefty late cancellation fee as per signed contract...

[Doggy Styles]

Bummer...

That's not very nice.

[northernladuk]

We had a thread on here last year I think it was when the contractor got the same message while signing in at reception on his first day

[cojak]

...a client gets in touch with you before the project has even began, to say that you're not needed

Bummer...

[d000hg]

...a client gets in touch with you before the project has even began, to say that you're not needed

No.

[NotAllThere]

I had one project where I was asked, four weeks before the project started if I'd "mind" starting a week later. OK - no problem. Two weeks before the new project start, (with one week to go in current contract), I was told is was canned. But, I'd get one-week payoff.

I found a contract within a few days, and so had double bubble for that first week.

The client was Enron.

[TheFaQQer]

...a client gets in touch with you before the project has even began, to say that you're not needed

At least they let you know beforehand - worse to get to the morning of the first day with travel booked to get canned.

[RedSauce]

Unboomed

[bobspud]

...a client gets in touch with you before the poject has even began, to say that you're not needed

Yes. HP wasted six months of my and a tame agents time sorting out a PO and set of schedules and then binned my team the friday before we was due onsite.. You have my sympathies

[kingcook]

...a client gets in touch with you before the project has even began, to say that you're not needed