Hey All; IT World over here,
I'm just throwing it out here that I always found it a bit ridiculous that I had to contract for YEARS for much less of the pay vs internal company employees for doing the same amount and or quality of work that they did: some times more which ended up with me burning myself out trying to become a Full Time Employee. While contracting I had terrible benefits, terrible representation, and terrible compensation. I did not accumulate vacation time and sometimes I ended up having to work holidays when the internal employees would get to spend time with their families. Yes I am saying that I slaved for years with no paid vacation unless the Contract Agency appointed it according to what they deemed important. Mean while the pandemic hit and contractors were the first to go: companies were restricting hiring to internal employees only. They wanted 100% commitment from me, but when it hit the fan and it did they left me to the wolves. Ever since then I have been Quietly Quitting; though I didn't know that was what it is called.
Surely some of you have also gone through this with “Contract”/”Hiring” Agencies?
Still: Is there still no anti-contract work movement? People are getting taken advantage of. I don't see how companies can get away with stuff like this. What happened to equal opportunity?