I work at a Fortune 100 company. More than one contract programmer who came in were under these agreements. Most of them were placed by an agency. Furthermor

I work at a Fortune 100 company. More than one contract programmer who came in were under these agreements. Most of them were placed by an agency. Furthermore, most of them were billed by the agency as "senior programmers", even though some of them had little to no IT experience. None of them were renewed on their 3 month contracts or extended a job offer. Some of them had multiple layers of management - they were placed at our company by an agency, who was getting them from a subcontracting agency. Sometimes the management layers were even a level more - the subcontracting agency had a subcontracting agency. Also for one guy I talked to, the agreement was not just if they quit, but if they were not re-upped for the contract, which they were not. The agency was unable to place them again, and laid them off. The agency did not go after him for the "training" money, although according to the agreement they could have. He had gone to a six month bootcamp, but that was at his own expense and before he connected with the agency. He said the "training" the agency gave him was worthless.