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Subject:Re: Re: FWD: Contracting where you used to work From:"Bruce Wolf" <bwolf -at- scheidt-bachmann-usa -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 27 Sep 2001 08:29:15 -0400
If they are treating you unprofessionally, why do you worry about responding
in kind? Give one week's notice and go.
This is a street fight, not a Don King production. They kicked you in the
groin, so kick them back in the groin.
They'll likely make a reasonable offer after you've physically left. They
won't show you any respect until you show them you deserve respect. Play
the game by their rules.
BW
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Subject: FWD: Re: FWD: Contracting where you used to work
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> I've been working for my current employers for nearly six months on a
> temporary contract that was presented to me as a probationary period - at
> the end of the six months, if they were satisfied with what I was doing
> (and I was happy to stay) they were to make me permanent.
>
> Now contract renewal time is coming up. There's a dearth of technical
> writing jobs in my area. And - on a somewhat flimsy reasoning - they have
> refused to make me permanent, instead extending my temporary contract for
> another three months. (I get paid holidays pro-rata, but no sick pay or
> other benefits.) It seems to me that they get all the benefits of having a
> permanent employee with few of the expenses, and I get all the
> inconveniences of being a contractor with none of the benefits.
>
> I was not able to negotiate a pay-rise: they have a firm rule that
> permanent employees are assessed for pay rises only once a year, and I
> have not yet been here for six months and count as a permanent employee
> for payroll purposes. I could resign and offer my services as an hourly
> contractor, but there are few benefits to them in accepting a deal like
> that - and at the moment it's an employer's market. True, I can leave
> on one week's notice and put them in a terrible fix - but that would
> be unprofessional and would lose any chance they'd give me a good
> reference. It would also be dumb, unless I had another job to go to.
> Effectively, I'm stuck.
>
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