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    Boomed and Bombed In Same Day

    So had interview last week and was offered the role, which I was in the process of accepting. Agent then rings and says deal is off, as client has had funding blocked higher up, so role is no longer available.

    FFS I thought, why not get funding agreed before going to market ?? Has just wasted mine, client and agents time and effort.

    Back to square one (again)
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    #2
    Originally posted by kaiser78 View Post
    Boomed and Bombed In Same Day

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      #3
      Originally posted by kaiser78 View Post
      So had interview last week and was offered the role, which I was in the process of accepting. Agent then rings and says deal is off, as client has had funding blocked higher up, so role is no longer available.

      FFS I thought, why not get funding agreed before going to market ?? Has just wasted mine, client and agents time and effort.

      Back to square one (again)
      I've had this a few times including projects being given the OK by the UK company and then vetoed by the US parent company.
      "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

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        #4
        Rotten luck. My commiserations.

        Originally posted by kaiser78 View Post
        Back to square one (again)
        Heh. I like what you did there.

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          #5
          Originally posted by kaiser78 View Post
          So had interview last week and was offered the role, which I was in the process of accepting. Agent then rings and says deal is off, as client has had funding blocked higher up, so role is no longer available.

          FFS I thought, why not get funding agreed before going to market ?? Has just wasted mine, client and agents time and effort.

          Back to square one (again)


          A case of putting the job ad out before getting sign off in the hope that they will get sign off, I've been guilty of that myself as often it takes so long to get the nod to recruit.
          "Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch." - Orson Welles

          Norrahe's blog

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            #6
            I've been a hiring manager. It happens. Some idiot higher up the food chain decides that the funds aren't available after all. Nothing can be done.
            Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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              #7
              Still riled

              Thinking about this further over the weekend, the annoying thing is that if as a contractor we accept a contract and then go back on our word for whatever reason, then we get pillored by certain members of this forum, rightly or wrongly so.

              So what is the difference between a clientco offering a contract position and then backtracking, and a contractor accepting a contract position and then backtracking ?
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                #8
                Originally posted by kaiser78 View Post

                So what is the difference between a clientco offering a contract position and then backtracking, and a contractor accepting a contract position and then backtracking ?
                The one with the money is always right?

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by kaiser78 View Post
                  So had interview last week and was offered the role, which I was in the process of accepting. Agent then rings and says deal is off, as client has had funding blocked higher up, so role is no longer available.

                  FFS I thought, why not get funding agreed before going to market ?? Has just wasted mine, client and agents time and effort.

                  Back to square one (again)
                  Been there, done that. I know of a couple of people who were on site for 3 weeks before being canned as the budget hadnt been signed off! How they got paid, I dont know.
                  I couldn't give two fornicators! Yes, really!

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by FatLazyContractor View Post
                    The one with the money is always right?
                    Pretty much.
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                    Urine is quite nourishing

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