Re: The Agency Issue Returns

Subject: Re: The Agency Issue Returns
From: Peter <pnewman1 -at- home -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 19:36:53 -0400

Diane Evans wrote:
>
> Andrew says: Theoretically, it shouldn't matter what the agency gets. If
> they pay you
> the rate you want, what do you care if they mark you up 10% or 10000%.
>
> I agree with Andrew. I have been consulting for several years. I am only
> now contemplating becoming a permanent employee because I enjoy the company
> I am at.
>
> My last contract paid me 40% of my billing rate. What that low? I didn't
> think so...I was provided with benefits, training, nearly free education,
> and a manager who looked served as a liasion between me and my company.
> When the dot-com I was originally working for suddenly got rid of all of
> their consultants (a "cost-cutting move"), there were five of us from the
> same agency who all got new placements and had no break in between jobs.
>
> Consulting is a symbiotic relationship. Both the contractor and the agency
> benefit from the situation. Yes, may seem that I am being "ripped off", but
> this sort of pricing happens all the time in a free enterprise system. No
> one complains (too loudly) that we are overcharged for cable television,
> cell phones, Windows2000, CocaCola, or many of the other myriad companies
> that have become extremely wealthy from the little guy.
>

Let's put this another way, how much does the farmer pay his chickens?
<g>

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