Just overheard two permies

[Unix]

What's staying over 12 months got to do with being extended?

If you can't spin a 3 monther into a year you are doing it wrong

[Ticktock]

If you can't spin a 3 monther into a year you are doing it wrong

If you think being a disguised permie is being a real business you are doing it wrong

[SpontaneousOrder]

I got my first contract because the hiring manager assumed that the two permie jobs I'd had just before, which lasted less than a year each, must have been contracts, so I must be a seasoned contractor.

Me too. I was at a small-ish consultancy and everyone thought I'd been doing it for years.

[SueEllen]

I got my first contract because the hiring manager assumed that the two permie jobs I'd had just before, which lasted less than a year each, must have been contracts, so I must be a seasoned contractor.

+2

[SlipTheJab]

If you think being a disguised permie is being a real business you are doing it wrong

+1 my first contract role was a 3 month troubleshooting one. If it got extended it would have meant I had failed in my first 3 months (job done btw and no extension!)

[Roger Mellie]

Going through contractor cvs for a test position. Binning anyone who doesn't have consistent contracts of over 12 months per client.

They then interview 'the best' but the best actually turn out to be crap during the interview and/or lied on their CVs.

They then go back to the bin and retrieve the CVs they binned.

Ahh...what would us contractors do without dumb permies?

[Bluenose]

Ahh yes. The permies at this company are looking for Norman. We all know him, That's the contract test manager on the floor in every ftse 250 company. Norman is in his early 50s who has been there for 4 years on a crap rate because he isn't good enough to be offered anything better elsewhere.

[OwlHoot]

I heard a couple of permies discussing contractor CVs, only yesterday by coincidence.

"Mark, you were at Megacorp Industries. Did you know this guy Bill Bloggs?"

"Um, doesn't sound familiar. Oh wait, I seem to recall hearing that someone called Bill had threatened to punch his manager."

"Well we don't want someone like that. Right, what about this next CV."

"Actually, it may have been someone else."

"This next CV looks interesting. Let's invite them in for an interview." ...