What I learned getting acquired by Google

Re:What I learned getting acquired by Google by rightbyte on Friday November 10, 2023 @06:09AM (#38217496)

Hospitality is a fundamental virtue. Skimping out on food is maybe the fundamental transgression of norms. The anger is subconscious and maybe primal.

I was a "contractor" from an in practice body shop consult agency, not an actual contractor. I did every day office work for three years, being part of a normal work group going to every day meetings etc.

But I don't think that matters. If you have an actual consultant in the office, being there once a month, you give him strawberries too, if you hand out strawberries.

Also, the pay was somewhat lower. I was fresh out of uni so I didn't know better.

Notably, only bosses two layers up thought it was a good idea to skimp on the strawberries etc. The bosses that had to deal with the ensuing bad mood ensured there was no such distinction between FTEs and "contractors".

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Re:What I learned getting acquired by Google by ExoticPearTree on Friday November 10, 2023 @07:48AM (#38218186)

I think we're talking about different things: contractors are paid more than regular employees doing the same thing. And they don't have any benefits the actual employees have.

> Also, the pay was somewhat lower. I was fresh out of uni so I didn't know better.

What you describe is outsourcing, not contracting.

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Re:What I learned getting acquired by Google by Pet_Ant on Friday November 10, 2023 @02:15PM (#38223181)

The body shop and their client call it contracting. If one will follow the mantra of "words mean whatever people use them as" then this is contracting.

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