office full of contractors?

[ookook]

Does anyone else work in an office where the vast majority of staff are contractors? the place I'm at, we are in the majority and the "permies" are just people employed as permanent staff thru the agency... fools

Quite a bizarre situation.. wondered if anyone else works in one similar

[Old Greg]

Does anyone else work in an office where the vast majority of staff are contractors? the place I'm at, we are in the majority and the "permies" are just people employed as permanent staff thru the agency... fools

Quite a bizarre situation.. wondered if anyone else works in one similar

One or two permies around but mostly contractors.

[DBA_bloke]

Well.... every IT bod in my place of work is a contractor... sort of. Too boring to explain fully, but happily, I became a "real" contractor days before everyone else was "forced" (owing to a takeover) to go with a third party service company. So, all previous permies now contractors-ish... and on same wages as before, but with a fairly certain "ta-ra, luv!" in 12 months.

You have to laugh.... well, I did.

[lukemg]

Not any more but at one place in the past, whole dept was contractors. Everyone had a similar mentality to get the work done but avoid any of the other grief associated with working. It worked well, no-one trying to get promotion etc we all knew we were on a good screw and could help each other out to keep it going. Worked a charm for a good few years until the 'out-sourcer' came a-calling.
Cue 19-yr-old cheap replacements for leavers and an eventual cull of contract numbers, with associated decline in service. I was in a deep rut by then and it was a good thing for me personally to have the change forced on me.

[daviejones]

Vodafone is full of contractors.....

[Cooperinliverp00l]

Including me i have 19 people in my team....3 of which are permie.

[Fran]

Not me, I'm the only contractor! Get the feeling this company isn't used to contractors and don't really know what to do with me!

Suits me as mostly I can get them to work MY way

[TheFaQQer]

Current project has 1 permie DBA, 2 1/2 permie developers, 7 contract developers.

Place I worked a couple of years ago had 1 permie, 6 contractors, plus a couple of consultants from Oracle.

[thunderlizard]

Current project is like that. About a dozen contractors, half from big consultancies and half from little ones. 2 or 3 permanent staff, who are the only ones allowed to do prod releases, meaning most of their time is taken up reading other people's documents and running other people's scripts while we do the interesting stuff.

[kirk]

current gig has 90% contractors ; they're a gov. co. though tightening their purses and mostly not renewing the contractors....