A Letter to the contractor employment "Industry"

[Contractoid]

I've employed 4 contractors in the last year, 2 UK and 2 US.
In each case every one has been bought in to do one of the core skills that I used to contract in (2xBA/ 1xSQL Developer / 1xSenior Data Analyst). I terminated one BA, didn't renew another and about to not renew the Analyst. Only the SQL developer is left and whereas she has some skills they still need hand holding, but theyre foreign and cheaper than the onshore equivalent and that's why theyre still used.

I've worked with hardly any decent contractors in my time & the best ones I do know are all ones I've initially mentored and who have gone on to do way better than I ever did.

Decent contractors are hard to find.

Accept your point but what I am getting at here is that ALL contractors be they fabulous or otherwise now seem to be treated with utter contempt. Like I posted earlier, market conditions is used as an excuse to behave like this. OK fine, just please remove all your ethical hype from your websites banging on about the importance of long term relationships with candidates!

[MarillionFan]

Accept your point but what I am getting at here is that ALL contractors be they fabulous or otherwise now seem to be treated with utter contempt. Like I posted earlier, market conditions is used as an excuse to behave like this. OK fine, just please remove all your ethical hype from your websites banging on about the importance of long term relationships with candidates!

Only those with contempt for the process get treated with utter contempt. There are good agents, poor agents, good contractors, poor contractors, good clients, poor clients, good managers yada yada yada.

Being sensitive and being a contractor don't go together. Ask Suity.

[minestrone]

I find the theatrics of permie contempt from clients quite amusing. The usual silent treatment, not invited for drinks, leaving early on your last day so they don't have to say goodbye and the other usual ones. I just laugh at it all.

[Mich the Tester]

Being sensitive and being a contractor don't go together. Ask Suity.

Suity's busy invoicing. You're a permie.

[suityou01]

I've employed 4 contractors in the last year, 2 UK and 2 US.
In each case every one has been bought in to do one of the core skills that I used to contract in (2xBA/ 1xSQL Developer / 1xSenior Data Analyst). I terminated one BA, didn't renew another and about to not renew the Analyst. Only the SQL developer is left and whereas she has some skills they still need hand holding, but theyre foreign and cheaper than the onshore equivalent and that's why theyre still used.

I've worked with hardly any decent contractors in my time & the best ones I do know are all ones I've initially mentored and who have gone on to do way better than I ever did.

Decent contractors are hard to find.

Psssst, over here

[northernladuk]

Psssst, over here

Wassup Suity? You know someone suitable?

[suityou01]

Only those with contempt for the process get treated with utter contempt. There are good agents, poor agents, good contractors, poor contractors, good clients, poor clients, good managers yada yada yada.

Being sensitive and being a contractor don't go together. Ask Suity.

Tiz true. Nowadays I've learned not to give a ****

[suityou01]

Suity's busy invoicing. You're a permie.

<swoon>

[darmstadt]

$110 an hour for someone who is supposed to be better at the function than me says different.

Pay peanuts, get monkeys

[MarillionFan]

Psssst

Still?