Permie or Bye, what would you do?

[EternalOptimist]

i know a bloke who has negotiated a 'permie/contractor' role.

still has his limited co, no notice period either way but has a two way verbal agreement that he will be there forever.
no paid hols training or sick. no pension, pays ir35

[northernladuk]

Or house prices!

Phew, he is back...

[northernladuk]

Ask AnyW's Mum for advice.

Scraggy!! Very disappointing. You could have done better than that surely?????

[hugebrain]

Like somebody used to say in their footer:

"Permies earn more than benched Contractors".

Depends where you are. Crazy Europeans give benched contractors a grand or more a week.

[KimberleyChris]

Depends where you are. Crazy Europeans give benched contractors a grand or more a week.

I don't get that when I'm working!!

Makes me wish there was a system where you could volunteer to be deported in place of an immigrant :-)

[Scrag Meister]

Update

ClientCo are bringing in a max contractor tenure of 12 months down from 36, then Permie or leave.

The BIG plan is to be totally contractor free by end of 2013.

Spoke to my sponsoring manager last night and asked him if there was an update on this situation and he told me that the request for an exception for me had been raised by him and had been ok'd by his boss and passed up the ladder to his boss, only 2 more levels of managerial decisions to go and then I should know what is happening.

[ThomasSoerensen]

I don't get that when I'm working!!

Makes me wish there was a system where you could volunteer to be deported in place of an immigrant :-)

no need - you can always travel to Somalia and buy a second hanf AK47 - then you have work again - and the weather is nice there.

[Support Monkey]

I have always been more secure as a contractor than i ever was a a permie.

How many permies keep a warchest and could survive 12 months with no income, and when i get laid off i have my CV ready and know how to approach an interview unlike most permies i know.

Its a contractors life for me everytime

[norrahe]

What's the market like for your line of work?

If it is a case of not much warchest and the work is drying up then consider it.

I have had this decision in the past and chose to leave.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

ClientCo are bringing in a max contractor tenure of 12 months down from 36, then Permie or leave.

The BIG plan is to be totally contractor free by end of 2013.

Spoke to my sponsoring manager last night and asked him if there was an update on this situation and he told me that the request for an exception for me had been raised by him and had been ok'd by his boss and passed up the ladder to his boss, only 2 more levels of managerial decisions to go and then I should know what is happening.

Pathetic. New boss at my last permie Co tried this. Many of the contractors lasted longer than he did. Most competant managers recognise that a bit of slaggin contractors to keep the permies happy is enough.