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    #21
    that's when I started
    Rule Number 1 - Assuming that you have a valid contract in place always try to get your poo onto your timesheet, provided that the timesheet is valid for your current contract and covers the period of time that you are billing for.

    I preferred version 1!

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      #22
      7 years on one site = permie

      Real contractors do 2 years max (end of expense rule)
      Besides, who wants to have been onsite longer than most permies?
      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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        #23
        Originally posted by Bagpuss View Post
        7 years on one site = permie

        Real contractors do 2 years max (end of expense rule)
        Besides, who wants to have been onsite longer than most permies?
        Real contractors go offshore and kiss the 24 month rule goodbye, accept 12 month renewals and use this to fund Plan B.
        You ain't seen me, right!

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          #24
          Originally posted by TonyEnglish View Post
          I've been checking jobserve and the only people who seem to be taking on are govt gigs - I was given my notice last night along with a ton of other contractors working at Global Services for BT
          Tony / Dave B

          Interesting one. I've been watching BTGS lately and it seems to be almost running under a state of Administration after the Finance people were put in charge. I can see the logic in retraining existing permy staff and phasing them into contractor roles but to just wholesale dump hundreds of contractors and replace them with unqualified staff in the hope that the clients won't notice seems like commercial suicide.
          Guy Fawkes - "The last man to enter Parliament with honourable intentions."

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            #25
            Originally posted by dack View Post
            Real contractors go offshore and kiss the 24 month rule goodbye, accept 12 month renewals and use this to fund Plan B.
            Hang about, something doesn't add up here as you have already said your war chest is empty and that you haven't got a Plan B.

            You've been in the Public Sector too long mate.

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              #26
              Originally posted by dack View Post
              Real contractors go offshore and kiss the 24 month rule goodbye, accept 12 month renewals and use this to fund Plan B.
              You're stil a permie
              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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                #27
                Tony / Dave B

                Interesting one. I've been watching BTGS lately and it seems to be almost running under a state of Administration after the Finance people were put in charge. I can see the logic in retraining existing permy staff and phasing them into contractor roles but to just wholesale dump hundreds of contractors and replace them with unqualified staff in the hope that the clients won't notice seems like commercial suicide.
                Yep it does not help however when you are half way through a project with BT and they start pulling the resources

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                  #28
                  Originally posted by original PM View Post
                  Yep it does not help however when you are half way through a project with BT and they start pulling the resources

                  Sometimes loseing resources can be a help, as said resources only slow meetings down with their endless "I have a doubt"
                  Fiscal nomad it's legal.

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