Posts by Torque76

It's Big, it's Blue... it's simply FABLESS! IBM's chip-free future

"Surely it is the agency that has kept your money, IBM pays the agency for a contractor to turn up, first it was you and now it is A.N.Other."

If I can suggest, given the reading skills you demonstrate later in your post you use your 'reading between the lines' skills at this point here.

Also at my level, which is a temp employee, I don't get to enter into contract negotiations sadly and I have to accept the contract as it is if I want the role.

I am glad you don't have that issue and given you are doing so well I am puzzled why you felt the need to post a comment that attempts to diminish me and absolve IBM? They are a $168Bn multinational organisation with plenty of resources as is.

My story as a contractor at IBM – I worked for IBM eighteen months ago and my contract was cut short by IBM two months early.

I started another 6 month, hourly paid, PAYG contract with IBM through an agency recently but decided to leave early after working 68 hours (9 working days at 7.5hrs) with 2 days enforced leave, no email or intranet for the first week.

I have been paid for 13 hours only (the hours worked on the first two days of the contract). When I queried I was referred to the:

“No Compensation” clauses on Page 7, this indicates that “Should the Contractor for any reason, not complete the term of the assignment and have been engaged by agency for more than 10 working days, then agency shall not be obliged to pay any fee to the Contractor for the final 10 days worked by the Contractor”.

I hope Global Foundries spend my salary wisely :(