You've got it backwards. If you do it your way, you get less per hour. The larger the denominator, the lower the rate. Uh, unless you're doing PHB math, in which case, yeah, makes perfect sense.
Way, way back I temped for Transamerica (you know, the pointy building on the San Francisco skyline?), with the carrot of a fulltime postion dangled in front of me if I did a good job. Well, I was a mediocre worker, at best, so they didn't keep me on, but after I had been there a month, this other temp was made permanent. He was a good worker, knew when to show initiative and when to shut up. He deserved it, I didn't. But I appreciated the fact that the management had been straight with me.
Many times since then (and when I was much more serious about my work), I've been offered a similar proposition, i.e., contract-to-perm. And I quickly realized that for some companies, this is just the standard smoke they blow up your ass. It's a counterfeit chip they use when negotiating your contract and it's a phantasm they continue to use to "motivate" you.
Last time I had a staff position, the owner was pretty greedy. He wanted to move me to contract status! He sat me down and explained to me how I'd be the one who really benefited for over an hour. I took him up on it, but subsequently was too busy making money working for others to ever do any contract work for him. He brought up the matter of the "NDA/Non-compete" I had signed, and I told him to look at the actual contract I had signed, not the version he kept on his computer. I had crossed out all the non-compete clauses with a red pen and initialed the changes. Someone had filed it away, and he never bothered to check it. So I was free to work for his competition. I always go up and give him a hearty hello and a handshake whenever I see him at trade shows. Anyway, I'm just rambling now.
So, go ahead and take the contract work, but take the contract-to-perm promise with a grain of salt. There are some companies that genuinely do as they promise, but there are many that are just pissing on you and telling you it's raining. And NEVER, NEVER negotiate away anything based on the promise of eventually getting a permanent position.
We need better bombs, and we must also prevent rogue nations from selling nu-kule-lar weapons to cockroaches. Hell, if we just destroy Iran and N. Korea, we could probably negotiate with the cockroaches.
I see you've played. I wasn't able to get past the medical exam, so I had to transfer to Alabama. At that point, I couldn't find the damn airbase, so I said, "Screw it, I'm going to get an MBA at Harvard."
1 to screw it in, and X to blog about it, submit stories to slashdot linking to the blogs, and then comment on the story and the inevitable dupe. And no one will RTFA anyway.
Damn straight. Anyone who isn't willing to die or willing to let others die to make a living is a commie. OSHA is a socialist plot to keep those with initiative from being justly rewarded for bold business plans that put the health and safety of workers at risk.
Your computer is in the Matrix? This is a Soviet Russia joke waiting to happen.
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He's using his liver and pancreas to filter his vodka, so I wouldn't want to drink it after it's been through his filtration system. For you, it might be a golden opportunity, however.
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Methinks you haven't drunk enough alcohol.
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did you use a straw to overcome your drinking problem? =)
WTF is the big deal with long term environmental problems? Eventually, the meek will inherit the earth, and they'll take it and they'll like it if they know what's good for them.
It isn't like the government can pitch in and subsidize modernizations that lead to a cleaner economy.
As if there's money left over after we subsidize Big Oil with our Iraq adventure for something as BOOOORRRRRING as the environment and the long term sustenance of the human race on the planet Earth. If there are any surplus funds, they should be used for something flashy, like a mission to mars and a moon base for our neocon elite leaders. The bonus? Such a moonbase will make The Rapture that much easier for Our Lord Jesus. And you KNOW that's gotta be good for the environment!
The Clear Skies Initiative? HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW! Mod this up +5 funny! Next, tell us about the Safe Forests intitative and the clean water thing. Or if you don't mod it up as funny, at least mod it +5, Orwellian for it's doubleplus ungoodness.
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short of Linus being caught in bed with a dead girl or live boy, he can do no wrong on /.
If the body of the dead girl or boy had open sores, we'd find a positive way to spin it. =)
You've got it backwards. If you do it your way, you get less per hour. The larger the denominator, the lower the rate. Uh, unless you're doing PHB math, in which case, yeah, makes perfect sense.
Way, way back I temped for Transamerica (you know, the pointy building on the San Francisco skyline?), with the carrot of a fulltime postion dangled in front of me if I did a good job. Well, I was a mediocre worker, at best, so they didn't keep me on, but after I had been there a month, this other temp was made permanent. He was a good worker, knew when to show initiative and when to shut up. He deserved it, I didn't. But I appreciated the fact that the management had been straight with me.
Many times since then (and when I was much more serious about my work), I've been offered a similar proposition, i.e., contract-to-perm. And I quickly realized that for some companies, this is just the standard smoke they blow up your ass. It's a counterfeit chip they use when negotiating your contract and it's a phantasm they continue to use to "motivate" you.
Last time I had a staff position, the owner was pretty greedy. He wanted to move me to contract status! He sat me down and explained to me how I'd be the one who really benefited for over an hour. I took him up on it, but subsequently was too busy making money working for others to ever do any contract work for him. He brought up the matter of the "NDA/Non-compete" I had signed, and I told him to look at the actual contract I had signed, not the version he kept on his computer. I had crossed out all the non-compete clauses with a red pen and initialed the changes. Someone had filed it away, and he never bothered to check it. So I was free to work for his competition. I always go up and give him a hearty hello and a handshake whenever I see him at trade shows. Anyway, I'm just rambling now.
So, go ahead and take the contract work, but take the contract-to-perm promise with a grain of salt. There are some companies that genuinely do as they promise, but there are many that are just pissing on you and telling you it's raining. And NEVER, NEVER negotiate away anything based on the promise of eventually getting a permanent position.
We need better bombs, and we must also prevent rogue nations from selling nu-kule-lar weapons to cockroaches. Hell, if we just destroy Iran and N. Korea, we could probably negotiate with the cockroaches.
I see you've played. I wasn't able to get past the medical exam, so I had to transfer to Alabama. At that point, I couldn't find the damn airbase, so I said, "Screw it, I'm going to get an MBA at Harvard."
That's two references to beef. (Corned beef and McDonald's hamburgers)
I think someone has the munchies.
I think your better half is trying to conceal her past.
Fluffer
I heard he made up his name because he really likes to smoke William.
No where near as frustrating as being his speech therapist.
Hey, thanks. That's my new sig.
When life gives you tampons, make tampon-ade.
I think you misspelled Orin Hatch.
That actually sounds more fun than GWB Trainer Sim.
And finally, a gigantic limo drives up, with a humongous Kennedy.
And they can be used as guides if you ever feel an urge to go hunt and kill some Amish. Good eating.
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1 to screw it in, and X to blog about it, submit stories to slashdot linking to the blogs, and then comment on the story and the inevitable dupe. And no one will RTFA anyway.
Damn straight. Anyone who isn't willing to die or willing to let others die to make a living is a commie. OSHA is a socialist plot to keep those with initiative from being justly rewarded for bold business plans that put the health and safety of workers at risk.
Your computer is in the Matrix? This is a Soviet Russia joke waiting to happen.
He's using his liver and pancreas to filter his vodka, so I wouldn't want to drink it after it's been through his filtration system. For you, it might be a golden opportunity, however.
Methinks you haven't drunk enough alcohol.
did you use a straw to overcome your drinking problem? =)
But they're the meek! Who gives a flying fuck what happens to them? (Hint: If there was an emoticon for sarcasm, it would go here.)
WTF is the big deal with long term environmental problems? Eventually, the meek will inherit the earth, and they'll take it and they'll like it if they know what's good for them.
It isn't like the government can pitch in and subsidize modernizations that lead to a cleaner economy.
As if there's money left over after we subsidize Big Oil with our Iraq adventure for something as BOOOORRRRRING as the environment and the long term sustenance of the human race on the planet Earth. If there are any surplus funds, they should be used for something flashy, like a mission to mars and a moon base for our neocon elite leaders. The bonus? Such a moonbase will make The Rapture that much easier for Our Lord Jesus. And you KNOW that's gotta be good for the environment!
The Clear Skies Initiative? HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW! Mod this up +5 funny! Next, tell us about the Safe Forests intitative and the clean water thing. Or if you don't mod it up as funny, at least mod it +5, Orwellian for it's doubleplus ungoodness.