Comment on Anon lives on a budget

• Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  For similar reasons in my current independent contractor role I’m limited to working less than 32 hours per week, presumably to prevent claims of being misclassified as a contractor.

  Now as for why I’m an independent contractor and not a full time employee that’s down to freaking corporate politics following being laid off, leaving for another role and then being begged to come back because they needed my expertise and organizational knowledge (I’ve been heavily trained to pick up the torch for an employee who’s retiring in 2 years, which with the amount of undocumented nonsense and organization-specific decisions it would take a solid 2 years just to get anyone trained up on everything and I’m the only one with the technical and organizational knowledge in the organization right now) so in short they’d greatly reduce costs by bringing me on full time but the CFO won’t approve the job offer (and that’s literally the only stakeholder holding it back)

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  • lohky@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I worked for one of those for a while. Worked in their office, on their computers, on their schedule, but somehow I was still 1099?

    I just stopped showing up one day and let all of their maintenance systems fail. 🤷

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They’re taking advantage of you.

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  • justaman123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I hope you’re spending all your time looking for a new job (I know, I know, go down to the jobbie tree and just get a job, right). But if you can get any kind of leverage or safety net to walk away you might be able to get the job offer by threatening to leave. Best of luck to you

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    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I absolutely have been, but holy crap this job market sucks. I’ve gotten so close on multiple interviews just to get passed up at the last minute.

      On the upside, with this contracting gig I’m making more than I made when I worked for them full time while only working ~30 hours a week fully remotely so it’s not a bad gig at all. I’m just frustrated that my boss wants to get me a job offer, the CTO wants to get me a job offer, I have the director of safety saying he wants me to get a job offer, but the CFO just isn’t budging

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