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Shoulda stood in bed...
Jul. 28th, 2010 11:36 amThe day is half shot and there's work to do and I've spent the better part of the morning shuffling paper.
The contractor agreement I received is protected to prevent "unintended" changes being made to the text. Unfortunately, such protection will also not permit "intended" changes to be made, of which I proposed several (in a PDF document that I sent back to the agency).
Among the clauses I took exception to was one that basically said the agency could audit my place of business at any time (and without warning), another that said I agreed to delete/destroy all assignment materials upon completion of an assignment, and a third that said if I didn't cash a payment of theirs within 120 days of issuance, the agency would consider its obligation to me with regard to such a payment as discharged.
I'm coming around to the idea that this agency is bad news, as it's dinging all the warning bells of my informal bad-agency-karma alarm system.
Meanwhile, on Twitter, some asshat is making it quite difficult to glean any useful tweets having to do with "translation":
Next on this morning's agenda was a document that requires me to represent and certify all sorts of stuff for another client who does a lot of government work. Among other tasks associated with filling in this paperwork, I had to obtain something called a CAGE number before anything else.
My attempt to do so ended up with me trying to complete a form on a Federal computer system using Firefox (oh, silly me), which didn't work at all, thereby pulling the plug on the time invested thus far and requiring me to step through the dance once more in Explorer, but I've wasted enough time for today, so after I complete this post, I'm off to do paying work!
En passant, this morning's bureaucratic goodness puts me in the proper frame of mind to anticipate all the fun I'll have next year, when I (and all other freelancers) will be blessed with the added joy of keeping track of everyone I pay money to for business services and goods, and of the amounts paid, so that I can issue all of these parties their very own 1099 should said amounts exceed $600.
Cheers...
The contractor agreement I received is protected to prevent "unintended" changes being made to the text. Unfortunately, such protection will also not permit "intended" changes to be made, of which I proposed several (in a PDF document that I sent back to the agency).
Among the clauses I took exception to was one that basically said the agency could audit my place of business at any time (and without warning), another that said I agreed to delete/destroy all assignment materials upon completion of an assignment, and a third that said if I didn't cash a payment of theirs within 120 days of issuance, the agency would consider its obligation to me with regard to such a payment as discharged.
I'm coming around to the idea that this agency is bad news, as it's dinging all the warning bells of my informal bad-agency-karma alarm system.
Meanwhile, on Twitter, some asshat is making it quite difficult to glean any useful tweets having to do with "translation":
Next on this morning's agenda was a document that requires me to represent and certify all sorts of stuff for another client who does a lot of government work. Among other tasks associated with filling in this paperwork, I had to obtain something called a CAGE number before anything else.
My attempt to do so ended up with me trying to complete a form on a Federal computer system using Firefox (oh, silly me), which didn't work at all, thereby pulling the plug on the time invested thus far and requiring me to step through the dance once more in Explorer, but I've wasted enough time for today, so after I complete this post, I'm off to do paying work!
En passant, this morning's bureaucratic goodness puts me in the proper frame of mind to anticipate all the fun I'll have next year, when I (and all other freelancers) will be blessed with the added joy of keeping track of everyone I pay money to for business services and goods, and of the amounts paid, so that I can issue all of these parties their very own 1099 should said amounts exceed $600.
Cheers...
