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Best Exuse For Ditiching A Contract Early

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    Best Exuse For Ditiching A Contract Early

    Whats your best excuse for ditching a contract early?

    I think I may have to leave 3 weeks early, don't like doing it and yes it's not very professional but the people I work with are all knobs so stuff 'em.

    Is the truth the best (or only option)?

    #2
    Take three weeks off at the end of the contract.
    Cats are evil.

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      #3
      Originally posted by bellymonster View Post
      Whats your best excuse for ditching a contract early?

      I think I may have to leave 3 weeks early, don't like doing it and yes it's not very professional but the people I work with are all knobs so stuff 'em.

      Is the truth the best (or only option)?
      I don't do it, I don't like it - but if there are factors beyond your control, then 'perosnal reasons' should be cited. No questions asked.
      The squint, the cocked eye and clenched first are the cornerstones of all Merseyside communication from birth to grave

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        #4
        Originally posted by bellymonster View Post
        Whats your best excuse for ditching a contract early?

        I think I may have to leave 3 weeks early, don't like doing it and yes it's not very professional but the people I work with are all knobs so stuff 'em.

        Is the truth the best (or only option)?
        The truth is never very palatable for anyone.

        I am going to bail out of my current project, part of me is glad of that because there are too many knobs on the project and it is making me look bad.

        So I am going to emmigrate. That might seem a bit extreme, but I can blame it on my wife wanting to go home, and so I don't have to tell the PM that I am fed up of working with knobs.

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          #5
          Conflict of interest/confidentiality as you are going to work for their main competitor?

          Contagious/disfiguring medical problem?

          Mr Flibble is very cross and has told you to go and see the king of the potato people.
          How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.

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            #6
            Originally posted by bellymonster View Post
            Whats your best excuse for ditching a contract early?

            I think I may have to leave 3 weeks early, don't like doing it and yes it's not very professional but the people I work with are all knobs so stuff 'em.

            Is the truth the best (or only option)?
            Fake your own death a la Reggie Perrin. Works every time.

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              #7
              Originally posted by zeitghost
              WHS.

              Didn't work quite so well for John Stonehouse, but there you go.

              I took a year off dead for tax reasons once. It was a bitch getting the NI number back.
              Right you are Hotblack.

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                #8
                Originally posted by EqualOpportunities View Post
                'perosnal reasons'
                perinasal
                "There's this thing near my nose... can't you see it?..."

                <swats hand agitatedly near face>

                "Look out, here they come again..."
                Keep doing that for a few days, they should let you go.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
                  perinasal
                  "There's this thing near my nose... can't you see it?..."

                  <swats hand agitatedly near face>

                  "Look out, here they come again..."
                  Keep doing that for a few days, they should let you go.
                  Smart arse
                  The squint, the cocked eye and clenched first are the cornerstones of all Merseyside communication from birth to grave

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Bob Dalek View Post
                    Fake your own death a la Reggie Perrin. Works every time.

                    If you are going to fake your Death, be sure when you call to let them the tragic news - that your voice is a bit croaky as this will be more convincing for your unfortunate Emplyer.
                    Last edited by AlfredJPruffock; 14 August 2008, 12:38.

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