Does anyone know how many non employees groups we’re allowing non badge to hold us at there mercy when ,if , how they “support “ us?
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I’m already a non worker so why not non employee.
I’m already asked to join “discovery of the art” with work we perform hosted by contractors. My bosses ask me afterwards why I’m so quiet?
Can you do that?
Why would anyone want to?
Personally I would never tell a friend to Contract for our company. You will be looked over like a hawk. Or we do on our office. And you better be here 5 days a week as well.
Your best bet to get hired on as a contractor is to know someone at the contracting company. Word of advice, they need to like you!
Yeah as a contractor you’re even more disposable. The l3 that hires your contract will milk you for whatever knowledge you may have then at the end toss you with no regrets. As everyone else says, run don’t walk. Just move on and head for greener pastures cause they’re not here unless you already made l3 and enjoy being a narcissist.
RUN don’t walk!
Just like one poster wrote, your department could easily be outsourced to a 3rd party. Happens a lot. You leave work on Friday and come back on Monday to the same desk, same job, only wearing a contractor's badge. Just look at IT support over the last few years, they started out as employees, then got outsourced to IBM and CSC, and it still continues! Worst (and most often) condition is you are only with your new outsourced company for a year until the terms of the outsource agreement expire, and you are replaced with an existing outsource company's employee. Why? AT&T doesn't have to pay severance for your years of service, and your new company only pays severance for 1 year, if at all.
Contractors have to badge in, however because they are not employees, they do not come under 'employee policies'. The manager they report to determines when and where they work; and they do not get any performance reviews, discipline, awards, give a ways, etc. They are not counted in the RTO either.
Just wait. Your department will probably be given over to a third party firm with a one year employment guarantee clause
If your question is how to become an NPW, you first have to quit. Then sign up with an approved consulting firm (one that is on purchasing's allowed list), and then have a manager obtain an approved req to hire a contractor. They then interview/selects the contractor. Your hourly rate is set between you and your consulting company that sponsors you. AT&T does not hire former employees directly, you have to be an employee of a consulting firm. Some organizations have a waiting period between leaving the company and coming back as a contractor. As an L3, this is the process I used multiple times to increase my org staff for specific projects that had an end date. Also know that your manager can end your contract for any reason, anytime, with no notice to you; they just call your consulting company and say I no longer need 'John Doe' anymore. Your consulting company calls you to say stop reporting immediately, and now you are "on the beach" waiting for a new assignment.
What?