On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Greg McCarroll wrote: > so thats, > > 25,825 > > equivalent in terms of a permanent salary, but without the training, > pension, stability or expenses of a permie - not to mention little things > like your evaluation for mortgage approval.
Ha ha ha ! Training for permies ?? You have got to be kidding, the last time I got a days training in *anything* was my industrial placement at uni. Also I have yet to receive a Pension from any employer in this industry - oddly I got a pension and training while working in Hotels, cleaning hospitals and even working in a supermarket. > It seems to me that while companies aim to pay the bare minimum for > contractors they will diminish this pool of resource in the economy, > in IT especially companies that have very changeable requirements > in terms of levels of IT resource that they need, killing the contractor > market (or at least deskilling it) seems like a bad idea. They are also de-skilling the permies, although not as badly. I would not advise anybody I liked to get into this industry - it doesn't really reward skills, loyalty or experience except for a very small minority. > ah well, maybe its time to be a plumber, after all if your loo breaks > you cant just expect employees to get by, you wouldn't expect them to > come to work every day and deal with a pile of shit after all - sadly > the same isn't true for IT working conditions ;-) I've been doing a lot of plumbing in my new house - its not that hard if you spend a little time preparing and have the right tools. yours, A. -- Aaron J Trevena - Perl Hacker, Kung Fu Geek, Internet Consultant AutoDia --- Automatic UML and HTML Specifications from Perl, C++ and Any Datasource with a Handler. http://droogs.org/autodia
