Re:What I learned getting acquired by Google
by bhelkey on Thursday November 09, 2023 @06:08PM
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This conversation isn't about the difference between intern and full time employee but rather the difference between contractor and full time employee.
Re:What I learned getting acquired by Google
by OJFord on Thursday November 09, 2023 @06:11PM
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It's about 'demeaning' different badges, and an intern is inherently temporary, which is the T in 'TVC'.
Re:What I learned getting acquired by Google
by lazide on Thursday November 09, 2023 @10:11PM
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Interns always got the FTE type experience (able to eat at celebrations, got Schwag, etc!).
They weren’t temp in the same sense as T temps - which are temporary workers hired from temp agencies.
Re:What I learned getting acquired by Google
by saagarjha on Friday November 10, 2023 @03:15AM
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Yep. Some companies even give interns legitimate (taxable!) benefits, too, which almost no company will give their TVCs.
Re:What I learned getting acquired by Google
by TreeInBuxton on Friday November 10, 2023 @03:14PM
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Depends on when you interned! Before 2018 you would get a green badge as an intern, 2018 and onwards you got the same blue as everyone else, when they moved all the offices to GDAS.
Contractors (cleaners, catering staff, etc) got yellow ones IIRC
(I interned at ARM in Cambridge 2017 and 2018)
(Colours from memory, I think that's right, they were certainly different anyway.)
Point is you can certainly learn not to treat contractors like employees, have badged access, etc., without having such hostility attached to it.