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One of my employees was contracting out his entire job. His performance was great and then fell off a cliff. Turns out he stopped paying the contractor and the
by everdev 8y ago
One of my employees was contracting out his entire job. His performance was great and then fell off a cliff. Turns out he stopped paying the contractor and the contractor stopped doing his work for him. When he had to do it himself it was horrible.
- hirundo 8y agoI don't fault the guy for the arbitrage, just for not fulfilling the contract. It would be about equally unethical if he were doing the great work himself and got bored and wandered away.
- dantheman 8y agoI strongly disagree. Even if we ignore confidentiality and security issues, there is a fundamental difference between contractors and employees. Employees are generally paid less than contractors and are provided stability inn return the company gets a stable employee. Contractors are expected to be shorter term and change tasking if new opportunities arise, even for a short time. If both parties enter into a deal then it's fine, if one is misrepresenting themselves it's not.
- crankylinuxuser 8y agoOh, so companies can engage in these tactics, but not the little people? How quaint.
- ada1981 8y agoIf you have more power / control your behavior is generally more ethical. /s
- everdev 8y agoWith companies it's more transparent and the contractors are bound to confidentiality and other codes of conduct. If something goes wrong the issue can be traced and addressed. When an employee does it without informing the employer or signing an agreement that holds the contractor to the same standards as the employee the chain of trust, transparency and accountability is broken.
- hirundo 8y agoI agree that the misrepresentation is wrong. But it's not clear that it's more wrong than not delivering as agreed for no good reason.
- scott-smith_us 8y ago> I don't fault the guy for the arbitrage Well, it's entrepreneurial, but he's almost certainly also violating all kinds of employment stipulations and policies he's formally agreed to (security, privacy, etc.)
- GhostVII 8y agoI think it is pretty unethical to give someone access to company data without the companies permission, and especially to allow that person to actually work on company products.
- user5994461 8y agoFirst part of the sentence, sure. Last part is debatable, so many things are outsourced or contracted, any product is largely contributed to by non employees.
- everdev 8y agoAs the employer, I wasn't cool with someone I didn't know delivering code to my clients or accessing their servers. It's in most standard employee contracts that employees won't disclose confidential information for reasons like this.