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    The current client started the ever-shrinking renewals pattern together with outsourcing to eastern Europe after sudden management changes. The last one offered (2 months) would dump me on the bench in August.

    So jumped first, start in a week at a new gig with six months contract and 2 years planned work.


    The client takes me into an office, steaming with rage and offers a further month on top. How do I refuse such a sexy offer?

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    Originally posted by TwoWolves View Post
    The current client started the ever-shrinking renewals pattern together with outsourcing to eastern Europe after sudden management changes. The last one offered (2 months) would dump me on the bench in August.

    So jumped first, start in a week at a new gig with six months contract and 2 years planned work.


    The client takes me into an office, steaming with rage and offers a further month on top. How do I refuse such a sexy offer?
    Well played sir. Have a banana song.

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      #3
      Clearly COTBAC it must be in your DNA. Well played sir.

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        Now this is what I call a contractor post. Well played !! I was getting tired of the constant posts about permiedom, promotion...
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          #5
          Well played indeed.

          It is incredibly frustrating and demotivating to be stuck at clients where they only ever talk about cost cutting and "insourcing" of contractors (whilst simultaneously outsourcing everything to India ), with the constant battle of having to argue one's worth every time a renewal is being touted.

          I love how the client offers you another month as if that is a world-shaking move on his part. I guess from his perspective he's doing everything he thinks he can, but the truth is that he isn't able to see beyond the blinkers of permiedom that his master has put on him.

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            Originally posted by TwoWolves View Post
            The client takes me into an office, steaming with rage and offers a further month on top. How do I refuse such a sexy offer?
            And did he think he was doing you a favour?
            "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
            - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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              #7
              I love those situations. Stick it to them.

              In fact, triple your rate and see how that goes down.
              "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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