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    Working for free!!!

    I'm taking work home with tonight....to do, FOR FREE!!!

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    Should I be stopped?
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    Should I be killed?
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    Should I be adored, worshipped and loved?
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    Should I be thrown in a darkened room with AndyW for 4 minutes?!
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    The pope is a tard.

    #2
    Sorry who are you going to do ????

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      #3
      Is it a complete one off or will it become a regular feature?
      "Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like? If that is the case then we have free speech."- Elon Musk

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        #4
        This does not make good business sense. If you work for ‘free’ you’re actually paying to work. Consider the opportunity costs; you could spend your free time working, at an admittedly low rate, in the local pub for 8 euros per hour (I don’t know what they pay in UK). You could spend the time doing a course which in time might increase your contractor earnings. But you’re not doing that.

        So working ‘for free’ actually costs you 8 euros per hour + lost future earnings as a result of not doing the course you could have done.

        And consider this; if you do it once, ClientCo will expect you to do it again. If you’re worried about your own business, the last thing to do is start acting as a charity to help out ClientCo. You’re not an employee; you are a self-employed business owner, and your priority is to your own business and nobody else’s. NEVER work for free, unless you're working for a good cause that needs volunteers.
        And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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          #5
          Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
          And consider this; if you do it once, ClientCo will expect you to do it again. If you’re worried about your own business, the last thing to do is start acting as a charity to help out ClientCo. You’re not an employee; you are a self-employed business owner, and your priority is to your own business and nobody else’s. NEVER work for free, unless you're working for a good cause that needs volunteers.
          WHS

          makes me think of those permie jobs when we were expected to 'go the extra mile' and if you walked out the door at 5:30 you were frowned upon for not being a true team player..
          Last edited by Jog On; 3 December 2008, 16:44. Reason: door!
          "Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like? If that is the case then we have free speech."- Elon Musk

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            #6
            Permie alert!
            "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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              #7
              Working for free? Does not compute
              'Orwell's 1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual'. -
              Nick Pickles, director of Big Brother Watch.

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                #8
                Originally posted by Jog On View Post
                Is it a complete one off or will it become a regular feature?
                It's a complete one off - they've given me some completely new stuff to do, which I'd LOVE to learn and put on my CV...and I dont just want to do it, I want to nail it....so I'm happy to put as much effort in as possible.

                Rock on me
                The pope is a tard.

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                  #9
                  Andyw wouldn't need 4 minutes
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by SallyAnne View Post
                    It's a complete one off - they've given me some completely new stuff to do, which I'd LOVE to learn and put on my CV...and I dont just want to do it, I want to nail it....so I'm happy to put as much effort in as possible.

                    Rock on me

                    Remember you don't need to Iron the underpants
                    The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.

                    But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”

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