Re: To be honest, I don't think this goes far enough at all
"No one benefits? I think you are only seeing it from one perspective, try thinking about the employees pov: make it harder to employ temp staff and the company will have to look after its perm staff better!"
>> Interesting, you're doing it again, blaming contractors for your bad working conditions.
Do you honestly think that its contractors fault that your employer isn't paying you what you think you're worth?
"Perm staff are in fact people, taxpayers and human effing being too didn't you know?"
>> But not the testers, you didn't seem to think they were worth much in your last comment.
"The contractors like to claim employees are just jelly the contractors get paid more,"
>> Yes, that is very much how you are coming across.
"However there's also the commoditization of tech employees. Business now generally treat all tech staff as if they are not really employees, once had a 2 hour lecture in a town hall about how in India and China they can make the staff work all night and sack them if they refuse."
>> Funnily enough, they can do that with contractors too, we don't have any employment rights!
"Contractors are a convenience, employees are the real life blood of a business."
>> I agree, employees should be treated well, and again, you seem really unhappy in your job I honestly urge you to find somewhere else to work, there are employers that will pay you well and treat you fairly.
"Carry on putting contractors ahead of employees, have all tech jobs moved to India and every business in the west closed then who benefits exactly? Not the Indians, because we won't have any money to paid them anymore."
>> This seems like an odd tangent unrelated to the IR35 discussion so I'm not going to get involved in this one, I don't see a connection between contractors and offshoring development and I don't see why you think that offshoring will cause every business in the west to close.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
