Given stick for working extra hours?

You're a contractor but are willing to work for nowt ? I hope you're not a limited company paying yourself dividends as it would be a massive IR35 issue.
 
If you've been given work that should say take 35hrs to complete yet it's taking you 40hrs to complete, is that not a concern?
 
Say you accidentally stuck your penis in a socket and killed yourself, you might've only been found on Monday morning and this would've come down on his head for not putting anti-penis systems on his sockets or allowing staff members in on their own.

I agree with this. We have those same systems here at work, they're a nightmare. Plugging in your phone charger is so much hassle!
 
Maybe he is having an affair and usually meets up at the weekend in the office. By chance this weekend he wasn't off as the mail boy was away on holiday?

He is warning you off just in case you catch him next time?
 
I've been here almost 2 years, started a 3 month contract and they keep extending. It's now a 6 month contract up for renewal soon. I will likely decline them and get work elsewhere. Not in the mood to bend over backwards anymore only to be kicked in the nads for it.

If you're a limited company contractor operating outside IR35, leaving at the end of your current contract is pretty much your only option. If you stay beyond 2 years things will get rather tricky for you... mileage allowance etc will be out the window.
 
Not having problems with management but took on an extra 15 hours a week overtime due to how busy we are and no one else really making any extra effort and now some of the people who aren't lifting a finger to help are griping how its "not fair" about some of the extra perks I'm getting for working longer hours :S

If there is one thing I've learnt in all my years of working going the extra mile is rarely appreciated or reciprocated when it comes to it.
 
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Boss probably just thought you were being too keen and making him look bad.

This is the real reason dude.
You didn't tell him which will put your boss's back up as they want to know stuff like that. It also looks like he can't manage you're workload properly
 
You really shouldn't be working without charging as a contractor, for the ir35 issues mentioned earlier.
Stay until midnight of the day you're charging for if you can't deliver on time.

If your client isn't happy with you working weekends, well then don't do it..

I don't think this is worthy of a thread tbh
 
Not having problems with management but took on an extra 15 hours a week overtime due to how busy we are and no one else really making any extra effort and now some of the people who aren't lifting a finger to help are griping how its "not fair" about some of the extra perks I'm getting for working longer hours :S

If there is one thing I've learnt in all my years of working going the extra mile is rarely appreciated or reciprocated when it comes to it.

Are you charging by the hour?

You seem to have a perm mentality.. Maybe contracting isn't for you?
 
Are you charging by the hour?

You seem to have a perm mentality.. Maybe contracting isn't for you?

I'm not a contractor infact still working off a part time contract even though I'm working fulltime + overtime so get paid per hour for all overtime which might also be where some of the discontent comes from.
 
Ha! Exactly the same happened in one of my earlier jobs.

I was on IT 2nd Line Support, and had access to our pool Helpdesk email account from home. I was mindful that a big job came in before close of play on Friday evening, so I checked mail at home to make sure it went ok.
It didn't.
I fixed the issue from home and got glowing praise from their department and their department senior manager - only took me an hour from about 1900-2000hrs. Their department management email me and my boss and his boss glowing thanks for the special one off service I provided during their difficult time.

First thing Monday morning I get called into my manager's office. He has a right go at me that I gave our 'customers' false expectations of service that violated our SLA, and he had to give me a written warning for it.

The funny thing was that if I hadn't have done that, his head would have been on the block, but he was just so anal and challenged.

I can see his point personally. That customer knows what the SLAs are when they sign the contracts, they will (or should) be aware of the notice needed to acquire new machines for staff etc. If they break the SLAs and get what they want anyway, then where's the incentive to jump up a support tier at renewal time? What happens when they pull the same stunt and don't get the out-of-hours service that you did off your own back? They will very quickly forget that when you did it on the previous occasion that was completely outside of scope.
 
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