I’m contracting month-to-month at my current agency and they’re throwing a third agency party this summer. While paying me $60/hr without benefits in a high cost of living city. They can’t afford to pay me salary, but they make multiple super bowl ads per year. Full time staff are living the good life, while other contractors are on medicaid and get a week’s notice if they’ll have income next month.

Just. Hire. Staff. Please. PLEASE!!!

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Stringing contractors along as permalancers makes the agency more nimble when a bad quarter/year/pandemic comes through and top brass wants to drop tons of overhead without messy transitions.

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Name. The. Company. Please. PLEASE!!!

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Of course this is not a great idea. It’s this person income. I guess it would be pretty easy to figure it out who it was

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Totally acknowledge that that sucks and can’t be a good feeling.

However, from a business standpoint, those are separate budget items and the buckets would’ve been allocated for the fiscal year well in advance. They can’t/won’t just move operational costs over into staffing, that’s not how that works from a finance standpoint.

Who art thou who are so wise in the ways of staffing?

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