Unusual Role - how would you handle this?

[billybiro]

It's not your company or career, let the permies make the decisions.

And consider walking away once you have done all you can for the evaluation work. Sitting there for three months is not doing anyone any favours.

For the same reasons above, simply parrot the permies. Agree with everything they say, after all, it's not your company or career, so you shouldn't care. Do this, and it'll keep you under the radar. Mal thinks sitting there for 3 months isn't doing anyone any favours, except it is. It's doing you, your accountant and your bank account a lot of favours.

Remember, keep calm and carry on invoicing!