Contractor work in tech is the shakiest of all gigs. One bad apple and your contract can be cut short. Walking on egg shells is no way to make a living.

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Yep we let them go when we like them. A vendor will come in and offer $10 cheaper rate and they’ll let everyone go and we’ll retrain a new batch. It’s a race to the cheapest pulse right now for the sake of efficiency. They won’t even let us interview the new people. Contractor is a nice word for expendable, temp, flexible workforce. Plus you have the employees that don’t want to work with them. Meanwhile you have CEO’s talking about workplace culture. You can’t build a culture around temporary people, offshore, and a skeleton crew.

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