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It's this. Think Cognizant, Accenture, CyberCoders, etc. They aren't making $200+ an hour as contractors, they're being paid like $40 an hour without any benefi
by heavyset_go 5y ago
It's this. Think Cognizant, Accenture, CyberCoders, etc. They aren't making $200+ an hour as contractors, they're being paid like $40 an hour without any benefits and are treated like garbage.
- EarlKing 5y ago$40 and hour is still $40 and hour. Live like a Bohemian, pile up your cash for a year, two years, four years... and then bounce to something better. Learned helplessness and expecting a daddy to come along and fix everything for you is not productive.
- teg4n_ 5y agoIt’s not actually $40 an hour in my experience. It’s closer to $25 and even then the amount of stress and responsibility you have is absurd for being a lowly contractor.
- EarlKing 5y agoThen don't work there, or do as I directed and leverage time there to get better work elsewhere. A company that is determined to treat people as "human resources" will not be deterred just because you complain. It will be deterred only by failure. So let them fail and in the meantime use their failure as a means to get a leg up yourself.
- hammyhavoc 5y ago"Then don't work there". Christ, what privilege.
- wjamesg 5y agoA lot of that going on around here, as per usual
- EarlKing 5y agoITT we learn that making intelligent decisions that require sacrifice is somehow "privilege"... but whining about making bad decisions isn't.
- shadowgovt 5y agoThe key piece is "require sacrifice." It is privilege to have something you can sacrifice, and not just be trapped.
- EarlKing 5y ago...in which case exactly 1% of the population are unprivileged enough to not have family, friends, or choices. This is literally an excuse for people who don't want to even try.
- shadowgovt 5y agoHello should that number be before we as a society accept it? 1% is staggeringly high. That's one and a half million people. If our system operates on exploiting one and a half million people, we should change that system.
- selimthegrim 5y agoGee I’m sure my managers at Intel as a green badge would really have appreciated that waiting to fail speech from me when I was getting paid $35/hour (with some benefits, I’ll admit) in 2013 via W-2 contract.
- heavyset_go 5y agoWeird that you think it's learned helplessness when I'm advocating on the behalf of others.
- jabroni_salad 5y agoThese workers are part of retail and callcenter, they are surely under $20. My callcenter experience can be summed up as "better than fastfood or retail I guess"