I'm taking work home with tonight....to do, FOR FREE!!!
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Working for free!!!
38Should I be stopped?7.89%3Should I be killed?13.16%5Should I be adored, worshipped and loved?18.42%7Should I be thrown in a darkened room with AndyW for 4 minutes?!60.53%23The pope is a tard. -
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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 MuskComment
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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, 16-5-2014Comment
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostAnd 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.
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.."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 MuskComment
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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 JeffersonComment
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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.Comment
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Originally posted by Jog On View PostIs it a complete one off or will it become a regular feature?
Rock on meThe pope is a tard.Comment
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Originally posted by SallyAnne View PostIt'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
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