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About Half of Google's Workers Are Contractors Who Don't Receive the Same Benefits as Direct Employees (bloomberg.com)
Every day, tens of thousands of people stream into Google offices wearing red name badges. They eat in Google's cafeterias, ride its commuter shuttles and work alongside its celebrated geeks. But they can't access all of the company's celebrated perks. They aren't entitled to stock and can't enter certain offices. Many don't have health insurance. Bloomberg: Before each weekly Google all-hands meeting, trays of hors d'oeuvres and, sometimes, kegs of beer are carted into an auditorium and satellite offices around the globe for employees, who wear white badges. Those without white badges are asked to return to their desks. Google's Alphabet employs hordes of these red-badged contract workers in addition to its full-fledged staff. They serve meals and clean offices. They write code, handle sales calls, recruit staff, screen YouTube videos, test self-driving cars and even manage entire teams -- a sea of skilled laborers that fuel the $795 billion company but reap few of the benefits and opportunities available to direct employees.
Earlier this year, those contractors outnumbered direct employees for the first time in the company's twenty-year history, according to a person who viewed the numbers on an internal company database. It's unclear if that is still the case. Alphabet reported 89,058 direct employees at the end of the second quarter. The company declined to comment on the number of contract workers.
Earlier this year, those contractors outnumbered direct employees for the first time in the company's twenty-year history, according to a person who viewed the numbers on an internal company database. It's unclear if that is still the case. Alphabet reported 89,058 direct employees at the end of the second quarter. The company declined to comment on the number of contract workers.
I have been a contractor myself for many years, sometimes in huge groups of other contractors working for companies with employees.
I have also been on the other side, working for companies as an employee in teams that worked alongside large teams of contractors...
I think it should say a lot as to which situation is better that I have ended up working as a contractor for years instead of working as an FTE. If for no other reason than, overtime work really loses the sting when you are paid hourly...
Yes I lack some "benefits" a company might offer but I get more freedom in how to make up those "benefits". Because I work on contract I can take more vacation time than almost any company would allow. Because I work contract I can choose health care options that make sense to me and stick with them rather than being shifted around in changing company plans. And It's also lots easier to untangle myself from a bad contract than a bad employer... not to mention being more free to speak my mind since as a contractor I am generally free of politics (though on larger team of contractors that still can be a factor, but not as much as it is for employees).
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This isn't a "Google" problem, this is an industry-wide problem. What larger tech company ISNT doing this?
Their only responsibility is to the shareholders.
[citation needed]
No, they also have a responsibility to obey Federal labor laws.
Then they are in violation of the Affordable Care Act which requires everyone to purchase insurance or sign up for Medicare otherwise they face IRS fines.
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Most people getting into these gigs don't understand this and undershoot their worth, which these companies abuse to hell.
Has reading comprehension failed the anonymous troll farms? I guess so since they can't grasp the basic concept. Over half of Google's skilled labor are contractors. Google the progressive, social justice, do no evil company has decided to not pay people by simply hiring contractors.
They have the money but lets go with slave labor.
Next some moron will defend Nestle for actually using slaves to produce cocoa. Ass holes.
and while there is still legal protections for pre-existing conditions. "Benefits" in America usually means health benefits. Everything else is nice but secondary.
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this is Uber & Lyft's entire business model (albeit taken to the extreme). Companies have broken the social contract. There's no longer any stability for workers. That plus the death of Unions and the end of collective bargaining is why wages are declining even though productivity is way, way up.
Time for a New New Deal.
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Maybe I missed it in TFA, but I don't think that Google applies the same diversity requirements when hiring its contract employees as it does its permanent ones. I wonder what its employee demographics would show if they included contract workers into the total labor force.
they also have a responsibility to obey Federal labor laws
And they do...right down to the letter of the law. Which allows them to hire contract labor for a temporary position for a period of up to one year. So about the 350th day of their contract (which also coincides with Christmas break in many cases) the position is eliminated and the contractor let go. Seven days later a new position with the same responsibilities is created and the contractor is offered a NEW position for another 350 days. Numerous tech companies (as well as many other industries) employ this practice.
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There are plenty of places that use contract agencies to hire on-site, full time âoeemployeesâ that are functionally identical in every way except they (or their agency) are responsible for taxes, insurance, and other benefits. This can also extend towards creating a second class citizen system where said contractors despite being with the same company for many years will be excluded from free or reduced price lunches, snacks, drinks, activities or even having their display names on emails, chats, or whatever else saying (Contractor) at the end. This is offset by said contractors receiving higher base salaries than they could if they were direct employees.
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https://www.nytimes.com/roomfo...
FTA: The leading statement of the law's view on corporate social responsibility goes back to Dodge v. Ford Motor Co, a 1919 decision that held that "a business corporation is organized and carried on primarily for the profit of the stockholders." That case — in which Henry Ford was challenged by shareholders when he tried to reduce car prices at their expense — also established that "it is not within the lawful powers of a board of directors to shape and conduct the affairs of a corporation for the merely incidental benefit of shareholders and for the primary purpose of benefiting others."
Despite contrary claims by some academics and Occupy Wall Street-type partisans, this remains the law today. A 2010 decision, for example, eBay Domestic Holdings Inc. v. Newmark, held that corporate directors are bound by "fiduciary duties and standards" which include "acting to promote the value of the corporation for the benefit of its stockholders."
You're surprised? How do you think Walmart, Amazon, Google etc, make so much money?
It's quite possible they likely are, otherwise, we'd have heard about it.
I see these articles all the time now and somehow, people think it is inherently BAD to be a contractor for some reason.
It is not.
There are many out there, that make a comfortable living contracting. It can be VERY lucrative. But you have to put your big boy pants on, know how to calculate your bill rate, so that you cover insurance, time off, retirement, taxes...etc.
But it isn't rocket surgery, and if you are going to contract, well, you have to be prepared to decline some jobs, as that they may not be worth your time.
No one holds a gun to your head forcing you to take a gig.
Contracting isn't for everyone, hence, W2 jobs are great for many if not most people who don't want the extra responsibilties. But it is not a bad thing if others want to do this.
I'm not sure where this new groupthink that contracting is evil and should be done away with came from? In the past, it was the govt that didn't seem to like it, as that they didn't get their tax money straight off the top immediately...but now, we have the general public starting to try to tear down what has been a good thing for MANY people.
If there's one thing I have liked about contracting...it is that I don't have to "earn hours" for vacation or sick time. It is built into my bill rate. I tell them I'm taking off....and I do.
There is more responsibility you have to take as a contractor, but it does offer you a bit more freedom.
And one last time....often if there is overtime to be had, they'll hit the W2 employees first, who get salary and no OT...if they want the contractor there, they have to pay. You may not get paid when you're not working, but you get paid EVERY hour you do work and often that makes them think twice whether they really need you that weekend or not...
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Yep.
Frankly, I'll take the extra $$$ over a free coke any day of the week.
I work for one thing...to earn money. Period.
If I didn't have to make money, say if I won the lottery, I'd not be wasting my life on a job working, I'd be out having fun doing what "I" want to do.
It is quite rare that people get paid to do exactly what they want to do, when and where they want to do it, fact of life.
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if they are working 29+ hours health insurance is buy law unless they are 1099's but the IRS may not see it that way. even more so if they told to be at desk at X time.
If you are a grown adult, over age 18yrs...you need to grow up and be responsible and learn how the world works and what your worth is, etc.
No one is there to take care of this for you....it is up to the individual to learn how to take care of themselves.
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You're talking about a different kind of "contractor". These aren't the kind that set their own billing rate - they're the kind that work for a contracting company for peanuts (aka outsourcing). They're W2 employees of the actual contractor.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
That's not strictly true, as the corporate charter can spell out other priorities. But the board has to follow whatever that is (and by default it' the financial interest of the shareholders). You can, however, have a corporation where being "green" or "socially responsible" is a priority, as long as that's public before anyone buys stock. You just have to be clear about what "benefit of the stockholders" will mean, if it's not just money. Almost no one does that, of course.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Of course, then there's this:
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-corporations-obligations-to-shareholders/corporations-dont-have-to-maximize-profits
FTA: "To quote the U.S. Supreme Court opinion in the recent Hobby Lobby case: “Modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not.”"
See, those contracting companies will lure you in with seemingly great rates.
I contract for myself.
When working as a subcontractor, I've worked through small to medium size consulting firms - but still under my own company, not theirs.
I should have mentioned, but basically, do not contract for the giant firms. The rates they give are terrible, and they treat you worse.
I assure you, working independently you can make more. than you would working at a company, even after factoring in taxes and paying for your own benefits. But even if not the freedom can be worth it, or the chance to work on more interesting things as an expert helping bring some product to life... sometimes I've taken a lower rate for very small company just because I like a project.
All the contracts I have taken I have them generally pay every two to four weeks. That's worked out fine.
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This rule is so often spun, to the point it's almost unrecognizable. People say all kinds of things that just aren't true. It's really not difficult, either. Very simply:
The officers of a company (CEO etc) don't own the company. They work for the people who own the company, mostly people with retirement funds that have the stock. Therefore, the CEO isn't allowed to give himself or his wife money out of the company bank account. Rather, he must use company assets to do things that the shareholders (retirement savers) would want him to do. It's their money, he has to use it the they would want it used. That simple.
There is nothing in Apple's charter about being environmentally friendly, and there doesn't need to be. If most stockholders would want them to do X thing that's good for the environment, they should do it. What they can't do is pay the CEO's cousin $10,000/hour to install solar panels.
In times past, the corporate charter and bylaws often indicated what the corporation was intended to do. For a corporation I sold a few years ago, an old-fashioned charter would have said the purpose of the corporation was to do three things, in this order:
Provide jobs for people who had lost them when another company shut down
Provide best in class security solutions for web businesses
Potentially turn a profit
Nowadays, the charter or articles of incorporation frequently says "conduct business and other lawful activities" because that gives them maximum flexibility.
Here's one that surprises a lot of people, but it's absolutely true. If you think about it for a few minutes, you can probably figure out why:
The purpose for which most corporations are created is to provide jobs, to hire people.
I didn't say that's a common side effect, I said that's the purpose. It's what the shareholders want the corporation to do, as its first priority. I know some readers are about to angrily click the reply button, but think a moment first. That's a fact. You can figure out the details yourself, or you can post an angry reply and then look silly when I explain the details to you.
I'm a contractor.
I would f*cking die if I had to have a permanent job.
I work for three months and then take the rest of the year off.
The idea of going into a job, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year - UNTIL YOU ARE OLD AND YOU NEVER LIVED JUST WORKED THEN YOU DIE -
Who the hell wrote this article *complaining* about contracting?
If they want to work full time for their entire lives, go right ahead.
Don't fuck it up for the rest of us.
healthcare on your own costs thousands. So they're mostly young, healthy people hoping they don't get sick. Most won't. A few will and they'll be screwed. As an added bonus this is an easy and effective way to do age discrimination.
Of course, that completely screws up the insurance pool. That's why folks like Bernie Sanders have been pushing for the biggest possible pool: everyone. Aka Medicare for all aka Single Payer.
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The article forgot to mention the worst part of these contractors' jobs:
The team members with red badges who beam down to uncharted planets rarely make it back alive.
You make it sound like overtime was a thing everyone should be asking for.
I'm really more saying that in software work It is inevitable, contractor or not.
Being a contractor though means at least there is some reward for the loss of personal time.
I personally would rather have more time than money. But more money and less time is still preferable to me than less money AND less time - and more money is always transferrable to more time as a contractor at some point as you can reduce your hourly load for a while to make up for the time you lost, without financial penalty because you were paid extra for the extra hours.
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Well unless you're literally saving lives or something it's pretty obvious both employees and contractors are in it for the paycheck. That doesn't mean I'd do anything for "extra $$$", it's the total package of work content, working conditions, colleagues, management, job security, perks and so on. And other things like the commute that doesn't really change with employment status but might mean you'd like to stay where you are. I'm not in the best paid job I could be, but I'd probably come home more tired, stressed, miserable or with some other ailment that you can't so easily fix with money.
P.S. I actually like company events. Unless you're all work all the time you've probably done a lot of ice breaking chit-chatting in between meetings, coffee breaks, lunch breaks and whatnot. Unless you're really generally miserable around other people there's usually some like-minded people to hang out with or get to know better. Though I've never held it against anyone if they don't want to, if your social calendar is full or you'd rather get home to your WoW raid that's cool. If it becomes mandatory team building sessions, go fish.
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Google is repeating Microsoft's history.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/06/30/ms_casts_its_permatemps_into/
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-tries-to-reassure-contractors-about-rule-changes/
https://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-permatemp-checks-finally-arrive/
Intel even made an end-run around that caveat. They hire contractors through a third party (Kelly services) and they people are Kelly employees doing work for Intel. Unlimited contract duration, second class citizen status. Further it all but eliminated the one drive for managers to actually hire good people as GFT, because now there's no limit on contract duration, there's no worry that the person will go somewhere else on their next contract.
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This is the case at all the big tech companies I've seen. I've been stuck in the contractor grind for some time. Some folks seem to like it, I do not. You are treated as a lower class everywhere I've been, you won't be at moral events, you won't get stock, most companies are requiring the hiring agencies that place you to provide some health care and some PTO but it won't be at parity with a "true" employee. You usually will get paid less in the end and at many companies you have a "sell by" date that forces some amount of time off after some interval. At Microsoft it means every 18 months you are out of work for 6 months. So forget any sort of career trajectory. Also expect to be given all the worst of the work while it is assumed the reason you are a contractor is because "you couldn't cut it" as a real full time employee. So these gigs will pay the bills and sometimes there can be actual time and half overtime which is nice (assuming your contract doesn't have a 40 hour a week cap, many do so in that case you just won't get paid). Forget things like health club memberships, access to company specific bus service like the "Connector" buses at Microsoft. Well, I guess you do get out of the horrible review process at some of these companies. Would I rather be a real "full time" employee, yup. Now that I am a lowly contractor do I ever expect to get back to that, not so much, If you really want to go direct employee most folks have to go someplace as a non-contractor first then only consider a direct role with a larger company from that point on to scrub off the contractor stain! :-)
"know how to calculate your bill rate, so that you cover insurance, time off, retirement, taxes...etc."
Yeah, that's awesome when the client will let you work on a 1099 or if you can go corp-to-corp. Then just bill in dollars per hour what you'd want in an equivalent full-time salary in thousands per year, e.g., $150/hr == $150K/year.
The vast majority of contractors don't have those options. They have to go through one of the client's preferred contract houses, like the ones mentioned in TFA. Those companies' HR policies are a joke: Lousy yet expensive insurance, minimal vacation and sick time, no raises unless the client is willing to increase what they pay. Even if they'll let you work W-2 hourly (no benefits, and hour's pay for an hour's work, but taxes are withheld and there's still an employer-employee relationship), they still take more of your billing than they should. Plus all the noncompete BS.
How about they thank the heavens for having a decent job with a decent wage and live in the best country on earth.
Simple, because the economy forces costs up. Everyone is paying to be in the best country on earth.
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This isn't a "Google" problem, this is an industry-wide problem. What larger tech company ISNT doing this?
This goes beyond even the tech industry to an ongoing global problem . Whether in the United States, Canada, Europe, or East Asia, you have more and more companies opting to use more and more contract labor. It's many of the same reasons: easy to hire and fire / surge, cheaper, etc.
Most contractors in big companies are subcontracted out by "manpower" type umbrella companies which pool together contractors and rent them out to large companies, taking a cut from their hourly wages in exchange for doing HR and sometimes providing benefits. The big companies are invoiced per hour for all contractors, not per person, not 1099 or W2. Think when you go to a shop to fix your car - if you get charged for 30hrs of labour, you are not suddenly required to buy the mechanic health insurance because he worked on your car >29hrs this week.
I have about for dozen friends between high school and college that work at Microsoft, and as far as I know, all of them receive worse benefits than a real Microsoft employee.
but you are not dealing the mechanic week after week. But if you are working w2 for manpower week after week then they must give you health insurance
The contractors are paid $137.25 an hour, or their contract management company is paid $137.25 per hour, out of which the employee is paid less?
One wonders...
When the only tool you have is a claw hammer every problem starts to look like the back of someone's skull.
Point taken, but Disney doesn't count. They own Congress.
That said, Google owned the previous presidential administration. I wonder how things are going with the new guy?
When the only tool you have is a claw hammer every problem starts to look like the back of someone's skull.
In general, contractors have been involved in staff meetings right alongside full time employees. If it was project related, they needed to know as much as the employees.
The ONLY times I have ever seen contractors excused was when there was bad news to be handed out about the companies situation. And then we were all reminded that this info. had not yet been released publicly, so we were now prohibited from trading the company stock for a period of time. When we all made it back to our desks, the contractors had been on the phone with their brokers, dumping their company stock holdings.
Have gnu, will travel.
Interesting post.
What would you guess is the median net income for US corporations? Just for fun, care to guess the median number of employees?
Would you be surprised to learn that over 80% of US corporations were created primarily to employee specific people? Would your thoughts change if I mention that over 80% employee only one person, or one person and their immediate family? That over 80% of US corporations are people who own their job.
Here are 400 current shareholder resolutions, in which shareholders are directing companies to prioritize various social issues, such as environmental issues:
https://www.greenamerica.org/s...
This is 400 cases this year of shareholders explicitly telling executives "we want you to do this socially responsible thing, even if it cuts into profits".
You're absolutely right that, lacking any other information, the default assumption is that investmentors would generally prefer to make money rather than lose money. That's a default assumption when their is no reason to believe otherwise.
On the other hand, it is well known that Ben & Jerry's stockholders wish to support certain social issues:
https://www.benjerry.com/whats...
The executives at Ben & Jerry's would breach their duty to shareholders if they invested corporate money in an oil company, because there shareholders wouldn't like that - even if it increased profits.
Jesus titty fucking Christ, I'd take a pay cut to avoid a _weekly_ all hands rah-rah meeting. Sounds excruciating...
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Your citations are specious to the point.
You now desire to disambiguate shareholder rights, as a function of their ownership of a corporation, stock classes held, laws regarding shareholder rights, and more. That's another conversation.
Resolutions, aiding the aims of social justice, are plentiful and find their ways into stockholder resolutions, which may or may not be viable. They're a nice outlet-- should they be able to influence outcomes, but most often, they don't for a number of reasons.
My point remains that large corporations are enslaved to profits, even if that means doing sleazy things like hiring temps, 1099 contractors, or using one corp to optimze the return on another through employee renting, and other schemes. Shareholder return is the goal, not social justice. Social justice is the rare exception, as are themes like environmental-allied goals, and more. Corporations are made to enrichen and reduce liability. This doesn't mean I like how corporations work or the law behind them, or the wall against civic control applies, it's just how it is. It can be changed, but it's very difficult to do when corporations control campaign financing, and therefore, the legal system.
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You forget to factor in that as an Employee when you work from home you work from home. When you commute you commute.
As a contractor when you work from home , you take a home office deduction on your taxes. Your car is a writeoff. Your lunches are business expenses. Ditto phone, internet, clothes, conferences, computers. Almost everything an employee pays for with after tax money you pay with before tax money. You also are not limited to only putting 18.5 K into 401. You can put upto 50K. Once you bring the tax benefits in that 50 dollar per hour is like 75 dollar per hour. So in return you do some paperwork. Highest bill rate use of time- doing paperwork.
**Life is too short to be serious**
And most contracting companies do provide health insurance. Only mom and pop contracting firms with less than 50 employees dont.
**Life is too short to be serious**
who constantly worries about healthcare, God I'm envious of you. Make sure your right wing doesn't take it away from you though. It's a constant battle to hang on to what little we have over here :(...
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Speaking of slavery standards. It was mentioned the other day that Amazon caps wages at $176k per year. It hit me today, they probably do that to prevent poaching...as a way of fixing wages. Do other big tech companies have caps?
I remember a kerfuffle where the big tech companies were colluding at one point..is it possible that they skirted the law by all posting maximum salary caps?
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Yeah....and when you run into bullshit and politics that gum up the works you can just kick back and log hours until the W2s stop fighting. It is always funny to see managers batting down the flames when you are logging hours and can't get anything done because the FTEs can't get thier head out of thier ass.
I object to power without constructive purpose. --Spock
How about we acknowledge that the people running the company are also humans, and therefore have a moral imperative to (paraphrasing whichever is your favorite holy text) "not be fucking assholes". I hear this excuse all the time, and I don't understand why it's not consider sociopathic. Moral imperatives come before business interests.
You have your upper tier skilled contractors (I suspect a fair few here) who are brought in on very good money to complete a project or do a specialist task. In Australia, they'd make at least 100 to 200k a year. Day rates exceeding $500/700 a day. I'd assume in US / SF, these people would be 200k+ minimum.
Then you have 'normal' IT workers, doing basic work, account creation, service desk, back up and restore teams, desktop support. These guys aren't really specialists (not anymore) and there's a volume of work to keep them compartmentalized in a fairly mundane role which is more like working a conveyor belt than hardcore IT. These guys, probably should be perm, but many places still keep em as contractors, so you can fire them easy and pay them poorly. Once you do the figures on their hourly rate, vs the perm staff, factoring in holiday leave / sick leave / medical (for the USA) 401k and whatever other benefits there are. These guys are OFTEN getting shafted and it's extremely common in the industry. I myself have worked a "contract" gig at a mid level salary at best for 4 years for example. I've seen people do it for 11 years..... We're talking under 70k wages (AUD, like 55k US)
It's fucking the employees. There's no such thing as 'long service leave' anymore, you get close to being eligible and you're accidentally made redundant.
Even if you paid the shop for 1000 hrs of work, you're still not obligated to buy any health insurance for anyone. Some people do pay hundreds of hours of labor to restoration shops or customization shops. The mechanic is not your employee, they perform a service for which you get billed for, just happens that the price of the service depends on hours spent.. Same with contractors, they are not employees of the company for which they do work for - their hours are billed as a service.
Can't speak for Google or employees in the USA - but here in the UK contractors might not get the free perks, but more than make up for it in the additional money they earn.
A FTE project manager on £55k has a day rate of around £211. A bog standard contract project manager can easily earn double that. If you're a really good PM then you can earn three times that amount.
All of the contractors I know wouldn't want to give that up for some free hors d'oeuvres, free beer and the ability to go into a couple of extra offices.
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That probably only applies to the base salary.
There is still the potential to get 1 to 2 times as much in bonus.
If that is the case, then they are getting their "benefits" from their W2 contracting house employer...who is their real employer, not Google.
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Well, first thing to do, is incorporate yourself, so you can more easily do 1099 corp-to-corp.....
And I've done the W2 contracting thing too....but even with that, you need to know how to negotiate your salary, just like any other job.
Both of those opportunties are out there.....you gotta look for them.
Again, why take a job that is bad for you and doesn't fit your needs? Especially today, it is becoming more and more of an employees market with the unemployment rate doing down....
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You do realise that some of these contracts are for things like warehouse jobs. Good luck "negotiating a billing rate blah fucking blah" with that.
Not everyone is as totally awesome as you. Or rather as awesome as you think you are.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I have never claimed to be "awesome"...just putting out facts as I see them, and arguing against those I disagree with, hopefully with my clear reasoning behind it.
Again I say, if the gig isn't paying you well, find ANOTHER job!!
And, you may need to move to get to better work. If you can't afford to live in CA....move to the middle of the US, cost of living is cheaper, and there are jobs all over the USA.
Some times you need to grow up, and leave the nest....leave Mommy and Daddy behind and move to where work is.
I've done it before, may have to do it again...but that is life, you can't count on it staying the same, and you can't count on opportunity coming to find YOU, you have to go out after opportunity.
What happened to showing a little self determination and drive?
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
And many of the people who foam at the mouth railng about how much they hate socialism are collecting Social Security,Disability benefits, Medicare, Medicade, Food Stamps, and WIC, and other social benefits.
And the angry mobe pissed at everyone receiving social benefits but they fully deserve theirs - sometimes they have mod points.
We get it. Today's crypto conservatives are suffering from Red Queen syndrome:
"Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said: "one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.