#contractor

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How soon can I come back as either an external contractor or a FTE?

With the need for LNG, what’s happening with Goldenpass? More f ups or Global projects blaming the contractor.

I understand it's a business decision. What makes me furious is that they recently hired someone for double my pay for my role as a contractor in Hyderabad. Whats worse is that I interviewed that person a year ago and he knew nothing of any technology, I even flagged that the profile could be a fabricated one.

does anyone know how many are left? seems like a thing of the past

Anyone else noticing how many contractors in Brand are acting like leaders or even hiring managers? Some seem to be leading parts of the business and directing creative work within the agency structure. It’s confusing when contractors appear to be overseeing other contractors, and it’s often unclear who is actually working for who. The dynamic can feel pretty toxic.

When a contractor in the agency positions themselves as a department or team lead, or even a creative lead over others, it raises questions about who actually has a seat at the table and how those decisions are being made.

Curious how this became the model.

I am working on a Gen ai product and I have a meeting to demo that to the HIH team and the contractors. I have worked hard on the project and looks like the team in HIH wants to takeover? Idk. What to do?

Citi should dump them and keep FTE.

Layoffs will Occur on Thursday and Friday March 5th and March 6th to further increase the presence of offshore contractors. No exact # of who will be impacted. This is for Optum

Hi,
My old Project Mgr was told Wednesday that his last day is 3/6. Anyone else hear any other rumblings?

Are they still around?

I was a contractor on the tech side and left in January because I got a better job and because I’ve worked at a PE owned company before and I knew what was coming?

The team I was on was 90% contractors. I can’t imagine what shape they are in if contractors are gone.

We’ve all seen the latest email: a hard push toward a few "preferred suppliers" (mostly the large Indian MNCs) and a mandate to move away from our niche partners.

Reading between the lines, this looks like a forced transition from FTEs to a contractor dominant model. But is there actually a strategy here, or is this just another way to cook the books?

A few things that don't add up:

The "Recycling" Loop: I’m hearing reports that these preferred vendors are just hiring back former colleagues and charging us a markup.

Quality vs. Cost: The feedback on these specific providers has been bottom-tier. Moving from specialized niche experts to "volume" contractors usually results in technical debt that costs more to fix later.

Compliance or Convenience? Is "inappropriate reporting" (or lack of transparency) from these big firms being ignored just because they make the balance sheet look "leaner" by reducing official headcount?

What’s the real "idea" behind this? Is it just about shifting liability and hitting a "variable cost" target for the next earnings call, or is there any long-term plan to maintain the quality of our output?

Curious to hear from others who have transitioned to these providers. Are you seeing a drop in quality, or is this "recycling" of old employees as widespread as it sounds?

Give high performing employees a severance because they’re paid too much. Hire a Danos contractor to do the same job with much less liability and position cost.

Win/win. Take the severance buddy

Hello lovely people,
You guys probably dgaf about contractors but a lot of the contractors are being let go of, being replaced by offshore resources.

While I am really happy for the opportunity and hope this brings to the people offshore, I hope they are not overworked and expected to do as much as the onshore resources. Also, good luck to ACI and all the managers for future.

Bass Pro Shops is looking to decrease their overhead costs by reducing the use of US based employees. Many layoffs across the company and acquisitions. Seem to be following their leadership in using offshore contractors to decrease cost of US-based talent.

This isn’t AI!! They’re just outsourcing all the calls. Thanks Dan! I’m really happy you decided to employ some contractor.

Why is he still around? Shankar and Vivek sat on legacy systems for so so long. I remember a struggle few years ago when I wanted us to move to better new backend system but I was shut down saying they do not have budget.

I am pretty sure they wasted millions of dollars on hiring contractors to rip off Verizon.

Is anyone seeing/ hearing of positions being backfilled with contractors yet? I was assuming that will not pick up until the new fiscal year, But have heard of some area's already in motion.

Dell values talking and story telling over actual results. This is why they LOVE contractors. Dell sells stories and not actual value. When it's all said and done, the "say / do" ratio is 80% say and 20% actually doing anything. It's actually incredibly embarassing.

Does anyone know if any vendors or contractors will be effected?

Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE) announced recent layoffs. Dozens of union members were affected by these job cuts. The IEBW Local 410 union criticized BGE's decision. The union stated BGE kept contractors while firing members. This action was cited as a contract violation.

https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/video/union-slams-bge-for-firing-members-while-keeping-contractors-citing-contract-violation/

I feel a mass exodus from my location. Nobody likes a layoff obviously but the workload had tripled for some as myself. Yes, the stock went up but at what cost. Fire all those people just to hire them back as contractors and paying them more! Should've spent a little time weeding out the ones not performing and those not doing their work from home! Just the lazy one working from the house could've made up for the 15K.

i walk in, log into MS Teams, and talk to people who are halfway across the world. i don’t even know what they look like, and most of them are contractors

Make this make sense.

We lay off people by requiring them to move to a Hub city at their own expense and reapply for their job (or they are declared surplus/laid off). Then, a year later, they are back as a contractor, and RTO doesn’t apply to contractors.

If it is so darn important to have everyone in an office, why aren’t we ALL in the office? Why doesn’t AT&T thrust their own employees, but is happy to let a third party person have access to the same systems and networks remotely full time?

Anyone know if onshore contractors will be let go? Rumor has it all contractor contracts got extended til 3/1 for alignment purposes - is this just a cover story for having them work hard the next month and finish their projects and then they'll be rid of at Express Scripts/Evernorth? I'm working with a few contractors and wondering if they know they'll be let go in a month so won't do their work well the next 4 weeks. That would be awful for our remaining team. And does it also signal that the contractors won't be getting FTE positions in the future anymore?

Just in headend will be contractors based also. They are currently looking at a few potential companies to take over....

Only people to blame are employees for letting this happen.. Chicken sh--s

In general, can contractors be positioned to lead teams within organizations?

I keep hearing contractor layoffs in feb. anyone has more info?

This is a serious question and ONLY directed at H-1b FTEs. I’m a white female from Europe who used to be on H-1b when initially hired by Nike. I’ve been a permanent resident for a while now but still curious about something. I know the scenarios where H-1b hires get paid less or taken advantage of but I have never had that happen to me by Nike or any of my other (much bigger) employers. When Nike hired me, all of my coworkers on the team were American and my salary was comparable to or higher than theirs. Has any H-1b FTE observed they are in fact getting underpaid? Contractors are a different story and can be more easily exploited hence I’m excluding them from the question.

Just seems to me like they would first target onshore contractors and then usually offshore contractors, and then onshore FTEs? If anyone has more data about who they're targeting, would greatly appreciate it

Are they even laying off contractors ??talking about technology ( networking )

In MTech, a few contractors working with us (mostly onshore) are gone. FTEs are fine so far.

Hi everyone,
I'm wondering if anyone has heard about potential cost-cutting measures or layoffs affecting contractors at Charles Schwab? With the current economic climate and many companies restructuring, I'm curious if there are any known plans to reduce contractor workforce or cut contractor-related costs. Has anyone heard anything from their teams or managers about this?

Rebadged employees that you may work with from your core are being released. I wish all the best.

Neighborhood has been taken down twice in the past 4-5 weeks. Actual Verizon techs working overnight at the Xboxes. What are they doing? Know they have used a lot of contractors for installation in the past but that has basically wound down and seems like there is no repair work based on the number of trucks you see after almost any type of inclement weather.

The company is so poorly managed , they overpay management, they allow these techs to take home there trucks , I see cable trucks parked in one location sometimes for 2-3 hrs , here’s an idea why don’t you take back contractor work and give it to in-house techs

just found out some (not all) externals are being chopped on Jan 1st in ET. Happy new year!! Three days notice... wow

I have to say I was quite affected by all of the farewell emails that came in today.

I feel bad for the long-term employees who now have to look for a new job and will certainly face ageism.

I feel bad for the impacted who don't live in a major job market. That will be an uphill battle to find a comparable corporate job.

But I feel especially bad for a couple of peers that were with VZ for less than a year. One was a contractor and was very excited to land a VZ full-time offer. His kid had major medical issues, so he was finally happy to have good benefits.

The other was a guy recently divorced supporting 3 kids. He was also a contractor that went perm. Both are in their late 50s so will have a tough time finding new full-time work.

I know this is the downside of choosing corporate life, but it still really stings. And I would be naïve to think that I'll be safe much longer.

The older workers pdf clearly showed a bias in laying off the older population of RFEs. A couple of very recent RFE hires were included in with the riffed group (to mask the age discrimination?). Were RFEs in other regions affected similarly?

Also, the CARTN RFE team already has approx. 20 contractors (not touched) supporting the build plan (entering data in the tools per the RFEs' directions, plus running plots for review by the RFEs). ALL of the 20 or so contractors appear to be from India (Amdocs, with the contractors in TX?). Are the contractors now going to planning the designs of the cell sites? How is the quality of the designs (new builds and modification projects) going to be affected given the relatively short time span contractors are working for VZ (through Amdocs)? Contractors do not have as much skin in the game as fulltime VZ employees, and it may take 6 months to a year and a half for poor quality work to show up in the network.

Really short sighted on the part of management.