Comments on: Hiring a Contractor vs Hiring an Employee

By: Slippy

Slippy — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:29:17 +0000

Also something of note, don’t fill out all/most of a department with contractors. Employees (salaried) can be made to cover the load temporarily when a contractor or two leave, but if you try have contractors cover the responsibilities you will likely blow your budget.

By: Evil HR Lady

Evil HR Lady — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 08:09:38 +0000

In reply to Mr Professional Grade.

That’s the beauty of being a contractor–provided you have a spouse with benefits.

I worked with a genius programmer contractor for years. She would come and go as she pleased. “I’m taking six weeks off,” she’d say. We’d all say, “yes, of course, do come back,” because try as we might, we were never able to find someone as good as she was.

She also used to set alarms to get her Pepsi out of the freezer. So, you’d be talking to her and the alarm would go off and she’d excuse herself to get her slightly slushy bottle of Pepsi and put her now thawed half drunk bottle in the freezer. Then she’d set another alarm.

I miss her. She was amazing.

By: Mr Professional Grade

Mr Professional Grade — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 22:20:49 +0000

One of my favorite contractors has top notch computer skills — and a wife “with benefits”. When he was working at the company where I met him, he was there until my then-manager told him they needed him to switch from hands-on programming to writing a Requirements Document. He replied: no, you need someone else, when should be my last day?

By: Chris Hogg

Chris Hogg — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 13:16:03 +0000

In your article is the statement, “With a contractor, you can simply say, “I’m not renewing our contract,” and that’s that. It’s purely business.”

For an in-depth look at how this idea is playing out with “traditional” employees / job seekers in a major segment of the job market, the following book is suggested:

Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don’t Find) Work Today (2017) by Ilana Gershon