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    Downtime

    What does one do when waiting on a project manager or fellow worker to allocate work?

    Peronsally I feel a bit guilty when there are a couple of days (even hours) of downtime during a project, I chase people up but what more can you do?

    Would the most altruistic thing be to go home and not charge for the day?
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    Originally posted by yellow
    Would the most altruistic thing be to go home and not charge for the day?

    That would kill any IR35 issues you had.

    Or you could try to beat Zeities post count.

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      #3
      Originally posted by yellow
      What does one do when waiting on a project manager or fellow worker to allocate work?

      Peronsally I feel a bit guilty when there are a couple of days (even hours) of downtime during a project, I chase people up but what more can you do?

      Would the most altruistic thing be to go home and not charge for the day?

      In this gig I've went home.

      I've tagged that day onto the end of my contract, so they're paying me for my deliverables as opposed to my wasted time.

      COurse, then there are the other days when I've only had a tiny bit to do...thats when I post on here
      The pope is a tard.

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        #4
        Originally posted by yellow
        What does one do when waiting on a project manager or fellow worker to allocate work?

        Peronsally I feel a bit guilty when there are a couple of days (even hours) of downtime during a project, I chase people up but what more can you do?
        Offer to do some testing/bug fixing/documentation i.e. go look for something to do which will make life easier for others. If there isn't anything productive you can do you should go home and not charge for the time.
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          #5
          Originally posted by SallyAnne
          COurse, then there are the other days when I've only had a tiny bit to do...thats when I post on here
          That being every day then ???
          Thats the way the cookie crumbles

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            #6
            Originally posted by Cooperinliverp00l
            That being every day then ???

            Total Posts: 4,428 (17.04 posts per day)

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              #7
              Originally posted by Zippy
              Offer to do some testing/bug fixing/documentation i.e. go look for something to do which will make life easier for others. If there isn't anything productive you can do you should go home and not charge for the time.
              Yeah! Right!
              "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "


              Thomas Jefferson

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                #8
                Originally posted by Pondlife
                Total Posts: 4,428 (17.04 posts per day)
                It used to be 19.something - I've been doing loads better lately
                The pope is a tard.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Ruprect
                  Yeah! Right!
                  Double yeah, right!

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Burdock
                    Double yeah, right!
                    Treble yeah, right!

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