Line Manager himself a contractor

[Gym beast]

In your experience, fellas, and of course AABE (all else being equal), does having a fellow contractor sign off your timesheets put you in a better position for extensions, in-situ rate rises, etc?

[Brian Potter]

In your experience, fellas, and of course AABE (all else being equal), does having a fellow contractor sign off your timesheets put you in a better position for extensions, in-situ rate rises, etc?

Nope.

[northernladuk]

Quite the opposite if anything... but would hope it would make no difference at all.

[craig1]

Where I am now, the manager of the unit I'm working in is a contractor. My project sponsor is a contractor. My project board of four people has three contractors with the fourth being the senior supplier! My three technical leads are permanent staff but their bosses are all contractors.

A bit messed up... I get my timesheets signed on time, that's all I care about.

[nomadd]

In your experience, fellas, and of course AABE (all else being equal), does having a fellow contractor sign off your timesheets put you in a better position for extensions, in-situ rate rises, etc?

The last contractor PM I worked for was a complete "see-you-en-tee."

[SteelyDan]

In your experience, fellas, and of course AEBE [FTFY] (all else being equal), does having a fellow contractor sign off your timesheets put you in a better position for extensions, in-situ rate rises, etc?

Not if you're already on a higher rate than him/her, of which he/she is probably aware of as your timesheet authoriser...