Contractor v Temp - When the client doesn't know the difference

[EternalOptimist]

well, sometimes things go askew.
deals made with agents anrnt worth the paper
agreements made with the client are forgotten or superceded
etc....

there are two solutions

1) walk
2)make the bastids pay. and pay. and pay


kerrrching

[original PM]

you may also be the 'victim' of the classic small minded, power hungry middle management minion who hates his job and his fat wife so much that he just wants to try and make everyone as miserable as him.

the choice is yours on how you play it - but ensure that your skills are not replacable and that the people above him value you.

otherwise get your cv sorted and jog on to the next one.

[TestMangler]

you may also be the 'victim' of the classic small minded, power hungry middle management minion who hates his job and his fat wife so much that he just wants to try and make everyone as miserable as him.

the choice is yours on how you play it - but ensure that your skills are not replacable and that the people above him value you.

otherwise get your cv sorted and jog on to the next one.

And in the town it was well known, when they got home at night, their fat psychopathic wives would thrash them.....

[VectraMan]

What is the difference between a contractor and a temp?

[sirja]

Who does 'group meetings' at 6pm on a Friday? Even Accidenture never tried that one with me

[Eirikur]

Who does 'group meetings' at 6pm on a Friday? Even Accidenture never tried that one with me

A huge Japanese IT and telecoms company in the UK did that with me. Not only Fridays but DAILY for all15 months of the duration of the programme. Just didn't show up anymore after a while unless I had some time left.

[psychocandy]

i would have just showed up at 10am to make up for it.

[SussexSeagull]

I have had to push back on requests like meetings at six on a Friday and find the relationship never fully recovers.

Some companies want the skills of contractors with the subservience of permies after a bonus.

[jmo21]

Some companies want the skills of contractors with the subservience of permies after a bonus.

Some equate our high rates to being able to demand ludicrous hours.

[PurpleGorilla]

Go to the 6pm Friday meet and get dominos to deliver pizza to feed the room, pick up the tab, everyone will think you are a legend; then give him notice in front of his team and walk.