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Originally posted by northernladuk View PostThe fact you have to ask this means you don't have a clue about IR35. Very poor position to be in bearing in mind we just missed it in April but its coming again next year. Get reading.Comment
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Originally posted by edison View PostHow is it different to receiving a small nominal value gift like a calendar or mug?
Ex-ClientCo put corporate desk calendars on every desk one year, irrespective of who sat there and whether the desk was even in use. Does that make me inside IR35?Comment
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Originally posted by edison View PostHow is it different to receiving a small nominal value gift like a calendar or mug?Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
Ex-ClientCo put corporate desk calendars on every desk one year, irrespective of who sat there and whether the desk was even in use. Does that make me inside IR35?Comment
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Originally posted by edison View PostIMHO no, but maybe it could be interpreted as being part and parcel?? OP is talking about a gift from his agency though.Originally posted by ladymuck View PostIf the client requires it, maybe. But this is the agency.
I will have to remember to find the sarcasm tag next time.Comment
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I have corporate logo'ed polo shirts for use when at conferences or onsite at a customer, I try my hardest not to wear them“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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maybe if people would start refusing meaningless useless gifts, the companies/agencies will stop treating them like chumps.
it's not the gift on it's own but the indebtedness that you acquire and need to reciprocate.
google rule of reciprocity in social norms. -> marketing trick they are using on all of us to make us to do irrational thingsComment
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Originally posted by GigiBronz View Postmaybe if people would start refusing meaningless useless gifts, the companies/agencies will stop treating them like chumps.
it's not the gift on it's own but the indebtedness that you acquire and need to reciprocate.
google rule of reciprocity in social norms. -> marketing trick they are using on all of us to make us to do irrational thingsComment
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostI have corporate logo'ed polo shirts for use when at conferences or onsite at a customer, I try my hardest not to wear themComment
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Originally posted by BR14 View PostExpat twats 'R' us GmbH ????“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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