He fought hard to become full time, he came in as a contractor and became full time within a month. He was paid until the last day. The contractors in the engineering team were all given option join full-time from the get go - they chose not to become full-time. No one in engineering knew we were shutting down. We were told 2 days before shutdown. I worked until 11 pm with many team members, including my manager until the night before.