Reply to: Sods law

[kal]

A week barely gives you time to find accommodation and travel arrangements and get your suits pressed as it is!

Never mind turn around time to get the contract reviewed and strong arm-ing the agency to make the changes required!

[d000hg]

A week barely gives you time to find accommodation and travel arrangements and get your suits pressed as it is!

[psychocandy]

If a week's notice is too long for them to wait, I'd be tempted to tell them to get real.

Agree. But sometimes they do say this. (or agent does)

[d000hg]

You want them as sub-contractors not employees, unless you are moving to do this properly as some sort of consultancy model IMO.

[vetran]

Now that would be good. And pay them £100 a day....

Anyone ever used a sub? How did you pay them - as a PAYE employee or as a ltd company invoice?

frequently, via invoice.

[d000hg]

If a week's notice is too long for them to wait, I'd be tempted to tell them to get real.

[psychocandy]

Can't you just invoke your substitution clause, get Bobshawadiwadi in and then take on the better contract

Now that would be good. And pay them £100 a day....

Anyone ever used a sub? How did you pay them - as a PAYE employee or as a ltd company invoice?

[psychocandy]

Of course, the crap contract/bail if something better comes along idea is all well and good but, as I've found out, there are problems:-

1. Even a weeks notice puts some clients off. (Despite the fact that we all know that clients fanny about and waste this much time anyway - they seem to have an idea in their head that contractor has to start TOMORROW).

2. Its difficult to speak to agencies when you've just started a contract.

3. Its even more difficult to attend interviews (even phone ones) when you're in a contract. Only so many excuses you can make for a day off at short notice (and of course, you're losing money all the time).

I think theres going to come a time when its time to can crap contract anyway and go back to full time job hunting.

[MicrosoftBob]

Can't you just invoke your substitution clause, get Bobshawadiwadi in and then take on the better contract

[psychocandy]

My original response still stands IMO

Good luck with the interview.

Yeh. You have a point.

[psychocandy]

Isn't it support desk or similar, i.e. the rate is appropriate and he took a crap role rather than a role with a crap rate?

Nope. Its a fairly senior 3rd line role.

[DirtyDog]

They're in luck.

[Damon]

My original response still stands IMO

Good luck with the interview.

I have had a client cancel a project one week after I started and all on left that day.

So when it suits the client they won't concern themselves with the outcome for you....

[Old Greg]

WHS - at that rate they can hardly be expecting a reliable professional.

They're in luck.

[d000hg]

Isn't it support desk or similar, i.e. the rate is appropriate and he took a crap role rather than a role with a crap rate?