Reply to: Notice of time off

[expat]

Then **** them.

HTH

A bit late for that, since I've decided to be ethical!

[suityou01]

I asked about ethics, not professionalism.

As for bridges, no team of wild horses will drag me back to this client again.

Then **** them.

HTH

[expat]

stay professional I say and don't burn bridges. sounds like a lesson learned - I've learnt the hard way many times.

I asked about ethics, not professionalism.

As for bridges, no team of wild horses will drag me back to this client again.

[oscarose]

Very I did something similar in 2008 after the client said no wait you are getting a renewal then got canned 3 weeks later and did not work for 6 months. Screw being nice. Be professional but never nice! Which reminds me there is a little poisoned dwarf that is due a payback

stay professional I say and don't burn bridges. sounds like a lesson learned - I've learnt the hard way many times.

[bobspud]

bad call, I'd say...

Very I did something similar in 2008 after the client said no wait you are getting a renewal then got canned 3 weeks later and did not work for 6 months. Screw being nice. Be professional but never nice! Which reminds me there is a little poisoned dwarf that is due a payback

[oscarose]

OK, I have taken the ethical advice on board. I have just turned down an interview that would need a mid-March start.

bad call, I'd say...

[psychocandy]

In fact, thinking of making a new bracelet and calling it WWCUKD and then doing the exact opposite!

What would Jesus do? - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[CourtesyFlush]

OK, I have taken the ethical advice on board. I have just turned down an interview that would need a mid-March start.

You turned down an interview based on the opinions of a bunch of trolls on an internet forum? You should re-evalute your priorities. Yes people leave contracts early, all of the time in fact, for varying reasons. Health problems, family matters, and in your case the simple art of negotiating an early release.

You are in business for yourself yet think like a permie, which is not good. Just imagine yourself as the sales manager winning the business for your co, then managing the expectations of current client co.

As you don't seem to think too much of current clientco, then I really don't see why you gaf to be honest.

I would call back, take the interview, explain that you are on 2 weeks notice (yes, tell a porkie, it's not the end of the world ffs). Then you can delay signing the contract by a week. IR35 review will add a few days.

Once you have the contract in your paw, you pull the pin on current gig. Give the contracted 4 weeks notice. Negotiate an earlier leave date. If they won't negotiate, then go on the sick for the remaining term.

[suityou01]

OK, I have taken the ethical advice on board. I have just turned down an interview that would need a mid-March start.

[expat]

OK, I have taken the ethical advice on board. I have just turned down an interview that would need a mid-March start.

[d000hg]

When your client tells you with little notice there is no work, you don't get paid. When you tell them with little notice you're not available to work, you don't get paid.

[suityou01]

There's a fine line between poetic justice and petulant spite.

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[NickFitz]

...if it had not been for the poetic justice of turning about what they did to me.

There's a fine line between poetic justice and petulant spite.

[northernladuk]

I think you need break your original question down though as you are confusing two issues which I think have different outcomes.

Are you talking about giving 6 days for two weeks off at which point you will come back, which is more akin to the client actions.

Or are you talking about bailing out of a contract 2 weeks early?

Very different situations. The same actions in either situation will result in a different response from the client IMO.

[oscarose]

I guess my attitude is the same, as shown by the fact that I've never done it before, and that I had to ask (ask CUK General for ethical guidance??)

When I am shafted by the client just after having missed a few opportunities, and then go on the bench for the reat of the year, I'll be back to collect my plaudits for being honourable.

this is the true nature of things. you may be shafted harder by your next client.