Re: Ethics of Jumping To Another Contract Job

[Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>]

John Posada wrote:
> 
> Richard...by now you've reaslized the error of 
> not including a condition that any extension 
 > requires an exam of the rates...doesn't mean
 > you will change them, but it gives the option
 > of opening the discussion.
> 

I agree with this, although most agencies and their clients seem to 
think it a highly irregular thing to ask for. If they had more 
composure, I think they'd be saying something like "But we've agreed on 
your rate. Are you now telling me that it is not your rate?"

The correct response is, "No, I am saying that if you want to keep me 
off the market past our agreed-to end date, it might cost you." If 
you're an agency contractor, you have to do this with the agency and 
trust them to make the terms clear to the client. Tr-r-r-uhhh-ssss-t! :-(

Maybe some agency people will weigh in and explain how they would 
receive this kind of requirement from a W-2 tech writer. I think I know 
("it puts us on the spot"), but I'd like to discuss it in the context of 
tech writers trying to stay off the spot that open-ended contracts put 
us on.

Ned Bedinger
doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com

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