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A week barely gives you time to find accommodation and travel arrangements and get your suits pressed as it is!
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostIf a week's notice is too long for them to wait, I'd be tempted to tell them to get real.
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You want them as sub-contractors not employees, unless you are moving to do this properly as some sort of consultancy model IMO.
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If a week's notice is too long for them to wait, I'd be tempted to tell them to get real.
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Originally posted by MicrosoftBob View PostCan't you just invoke your substitution clause, get Bobshawadiwadi in and then take on the better contract
Anyone ever used a sub? How did you pay them - as a PAYE employee or as a ltd company invoice?
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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.
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Can't you just invoke your substitution clause, get Bobshawadiwadi in and then take on the better contract
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Originally posted by Damon View PostMy original response still stands IMO
Good luck with the interview.
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostIsn'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?
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My original response still stands IMO
Good luck with the interview.
Originally posted by Damon View Post
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....
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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?
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