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    Hello

    So i went for a 6 month contract role doing 'Cisco Contact Center' admin its the same hours per week as im going now.
    But It's shift work based on a 4 week pattern. I would also have to work one saturday every 5 days with a day off in liu.

    The downsides are also its an hour away from where I live.
    The plus side is its paying £60 extra a day.

    The pimp is putting pressure on me to start tomorrow.
    My current contract has a weeks notice.

    Would you ever walk out on a contract for a better paid role?
    I am concerned about pissing off my current agency/company.

    Cheers
    Paul

    #2
    Originally posted by slinkydonkey View Post
    Hello

    So i went for a 6 month contract role doing 'Cisco Contact Center' admin its the same hours per week as im going now.
    But It's shift work based on a 4 week pattern. I would also have to work one saturday every 5 days with a day off in liu.

    The downsides are also its an hour away from where I live.
    The plus side is its paying £60 extra a day.

    The pimp is putting pressure on me to start tomorrow.
    My current contract has a weeks notice.

    Would you ever walk out on a contract for a better paid role?
    I am concerned about pissing off my current agency/company.

    Cheers
    Paul
    Is your time worth the extra £30 an hour? I know mine isn't
    Originally posted by Stevie Wonder Boy
    I can't see any way to do it can you please advise?

    I want my account deleted and all of my information removed, I want to invoke my right to be forgotten.

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      #3
      ....

      What is it these days that stops people making simple decisions for themselves? Didn't you know about all those downsides before the interview?

      Thank God for Velcro or they wouldn't get their shoes done up.

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        #4
        Originally posted by slinkydonkey View Post
        I would also have to work one saturday every 5 days
        Good luck with that one.
        I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful. [Christopher Hitchens]

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          #5
          Originally posted by slinkydonkey View Post
          Hello

          So i went for a 6 month contract role doing 'Cisco Contact Center'

          Cheers
          Paul
          Is that what 'Thong song' was about ?
          Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state.

          No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent.

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            #6
            Originally posted by slinkydonkey View Post
            Hello

            So i went for a 6 month contract role doing 'Cisco Contact Center' admin its the same hours per week as im going now.
            But It's shift work based on a 4 week pattern. I would also have to work one saturday every 5 days with a day off in liu.

            The downsides are also its an hour away from where I live.
            The plus side is its paying £60 extra a day.

            The pimp is putting pressure on me to start tomorrow.
            My current contract has a weeks notice.

            Would you ever walk out on a contract for a better paid role?
            I am concerned about pissing off my current agency/company.

            Cheers
            Paul
            If you are going to work as a contractor, you better learn how to handle agents. I suggest you start now.
            You have a contract, honour it.
            Has the agent sent you a contract for the new role?
            Did it have a start date?
            Fiscal nomad it's legal.

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              #7
              Originally posted by slinkydonkey View Post
              Hello

              So i went for a 6 month contract role doing 'Cisco Contact Center' admin its the same hours per week as im going now.
              But It's shift work based on a 4 week pattern. I would also have to work one saturday every 5 days with a day off in liu.

              The downsides are also its an hour away from where I live.
              The plus side is its paying £60 extra a day.

              The pimp is putting pressure on me to start tomorrow.
              My current contract has a weeks notice.

              Would you ever walk out on a contract for a better paid role?
              I am concerned about pissing off my current agency/company.

              Cheers
              Paul
              seriously a day off in liu is this really a contract or 6 month fixed term, never heard of such a thing on a contract, if I'm working Saturdays I want paying for it full stop.

              bet you a pound you never get that day off because they will not find the time for you to have it then you will have to write it off

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                #8
                Originally posted by alreadypacked View Post
                If you are going to work as a contractor, you better learn how to handle agents. I suggest you start now.
                You have a contract, honour it.
                Has the agent sent you a contract for the new role?
                Did it have a start date?
                +1, If a pimp told me the sky was blue I would look out of the window to make sure. Never believe what they tell you, unless you have a signed contract you have nothing (and even then things can go pear shaped). For the sake of a week honour your current contract and tell the agent to wait or you'll refuse the role (I guarantee you he can smell the margin by now and will wait).

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                  #9
                  if you spend one day in the loo, you need to change your handle to stinky donkey, slinkydonkey
                  (\__/)
                  (>'.'<)
                  ("")("") Born to Drink. Forced to Work

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
                    if you spend one day in the loo, you need to change your handle to stinky donkey, slinkydonkey
                    I think he was talking about Lucy Liu.

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