Re: Is this Needed? Dragging OT

Depends on the profression and the job. I have been a contractor where I was part of the team and treated just like everyone else. I have been a contractor brought in to do a specific task and left in a corner. On my current project our contractors are regular members of the team. Some of them are in leadership positions.

Varies from shop to shop and person to person. I know contractors who have kep their jobs during project cut backs and employees were let go.

Work is work is work. Just because you work as a contractor right now does not mean you will be better or worse than an employee. Its the person.

The biggest problem I have run in with contracting is when you are a contractor at a US government facility. Salaries for contractors are much higher than government bureacrats and many of them don't like it.... I don't know if that is the same in other countries.

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>
> Not wishing to drag this way off topic....
>
> In all seriousness is this the general perception of contractors
> across the globe? That we are a tolerated resource but ideally the world
> might be a better place without us. As a contractor in the UK, maybe I've
> been lucky but I haven't run into that many fly-by-night cowboys, obviously
> one or two that think they know all and shout louder to cover their obvious
> lack of knowledge. Personally I feel it's a requirement for me, as a
> contractor, to always document everything, always do the best you can and
> always listen to what is required, offering my opinion, not what I consider
> to be a "fact". At the end of the day, if the employer is not happy, I am
> out on the street at the end of the month looking for new work, if don't
> pull my weight.
>
> Just idle curiosity on a Friday afternoon...
>
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> Subject: RE: Is this Needed?
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> Morning Chris,
>
>
>
> >> ..can you say "responsibility" and "consultant" in the same
> sentence? ;o)
>
>
> I'm a contractor, I take full responsibility for all my actions.
>
> How's that ?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Norman.
>
>
>
> Norman Dunbar.
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