I've commented a few times but never made a real post here but this is a fairly simple question.
I got hired as a contractor to work for several months at a well above minimum hourly wage for a company remotely doing phone support. I've been told they would like to keep me on full time and hire me once my contract is over. I mentioned this to one of my co-workers who I know has already been hired over full time and he told me that they will probably drop my pay by around $4k a year but they have a decent list of benefits. For the most part, I'm not interested in benefits, the health insurance is usually a scam anyway because you have a stupidly high deductible most of the time, and to me they don't balance out to the price of the wages I'd be losing. In fact, I'd say if they hire me on they should pay me 'more' not less, to stick around. Is there really anything for me to do specifically to work for in a possible negotiation phase?
I don't really have a backup plan, though, if I don't accept the offer.
It's not a hard job but it's dealing with customers all day via phones which can be very mentally draining. Though this applies to all fields of customer service. I might be feeling especially drained now though because I've been on overtime for the last month and we're on mandatory overtime for at least another two weeks.
P.S. When being told, I straight up told my 'lead/supervisor/manager' that I don't really care about the metrics side of things. I did say I'd work on improving but I won't improve at 'their pace' (to meet their micromanagement number crunching standards). They told me they were hesitant to offer me the position because of this, like, if you don't already realize your system punishes good people for actions of a bad few then it's already a lost cause, but that's a separate issue. They probably won't fire me for having 'bad metrics' as I do try to keep them at least to a tolerable level.