the companies are asking, and contractors are answering. It is the contractors business to accept the contract, not the companies. IMO increasing the responsi

the companies are asking, and contractors are answering. It is the contractors business to accept the contract, not the companies. IMO increasing the responsibility of a business to use contractors will add more roots to current large companies and increase the burden of small businesses to exist. I agree this situation is terrible, and that the contracting system is being abused by large companies, but we need to try to solve this without changing the nature of what a contract agreement is. >Thinking about sending a contractor to negotiate with a terrorist should scare the pants off of companies. the spirit of a contract is that the companies do not have an obligation to think about the contractor at all, and vice-versa. The entire relationship is defined by an agreement not to breach the contract, and that's it. Do we really need to burden every contract with cynicism just because it is a point of contact with shitty people doing shitty things? For example, if I hire a contractor to redo my kitchen I am shifting responsibility to someone else to do something, and then I write up a contract for all the arbitrary things that need decisions like design choices, acceptable colors, etc. They are accepting the responsibility for operations. If they use illegal operations, that is on them and I hope they face consequences for that. I am just some guy who wants a nice kitchen, I cant be expected to audit the guy i am hiring to know what to do on the things he is supposed to know better than me. The only thing I accept responsibility for is whether or not I like the outcome of him fulfilling the contract. The real problem is that companies are getting away with using "contractors" who in actuality operate like employees and are not really in a position to accept responsibility for their entire scope of work. That's a shitty thing we should be dealing with. because if a companies EMPLOYEES get kidnapped by ISIS while doing work assigned to them by their employer.. that is a very different situation