Sure! I know most people who have been through the experience of being a contractor are well-aware, but not everyone has had that experience and not everyone on

Sure! I know most people who have been through the experience of being a contractor are well-aware, but not everyone has had that experience and not everyone one of the 2000 unfortunate people will have clearly understood the risks before accepting the offer. Some may have even expected to be eventually hired due to unscrupulous recruiters. The tech recruiting industry is rife with shysters. You seem like you may have been burned in the past and I think setting clear expectations up front can help. We used to tell our contracting candidates "The full-time staff will judge you differently than they judge one of their own so be prepared to dress better, work harder and be recognized for it less." But lots of people already understood that and there were plenty that really preferred the flexibility and variety of contracts and felt bored and trapped as FTE. People can have different life priorities than we do. I think my agency was one of the good ones, but it was still rare that I was offering someone a clear career boost instead of a placeholder or a way to pay the bills. But bills need paying too. We used to be explicit about that and tell our contractors to keep looking for full-time work and treat the contract as a gap-fill and that we would cheer them on and gladly serve as a reference if they found better work. Our idea was that contractors who find dream jobs turn into eventual hiring managers who remember that we were honest. And I see a vibrant discussion of language and rhetorics below:) I do want to clarify that I meant the position is disposable and that you are a second class citizen in the context of the first class FTEs. If anything in this situation feels dehumanizing it's due to the modern corporate philosophy of labor as resource. I'm out of recruiting now and my mental health and perception of self-worth are much improved for the change.