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   Fesshole 🧻 (fesshole@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 06:33:36 JST Fesshole 🧻

   Found out an IT contractor I hired was working multiple contracts. Have contacted nearly 50 agencies to make them unhireable

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 06:33:36 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     @fesshole do you... not know what a contractor is?

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 20:17:59 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Mans R
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     @mansr @alextecplayz @fesshole

     That depends if they're contracted on an hourly or project basis.

     If the understanding is that a job of work be done within a timeframe, rather than presenteeism grade timeclock monitoring, then I've no problem if my contractors are working for other people (and that;'s the basis under which I most often undertake projects as well).

     Obviously, this is all speculative on all of our parts, and the worker might have been playing fast and loose with their timekeeping, but it certainly feels like OP has volunteered themselves to be an asshole.

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     Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 20:18:05 JST Mans R

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     • AlexTECPlayz

     @alextecplayz @fesshole It would be a problem if the contractor was billing multiple clients for the same hours. Doing multiple part-time contracts in parallel is of course perfectly normal.

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     AlexTECPlayz (alextecplayz@techhub.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 20:18:06 JST AlexTECPlayz

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     @fesshole You're a fucking piece of shit, and I say this as someone that would be willing to be an IT contractor, because I haven't been hired despite looking and applying constantly to jobs since June.

     Do you literally not know how a contractor works? They work on a per-contract basis. Once the job is done, they move to the next contract. If you wanted someone working full-time, you shouldn't have hired a contractor. Piece of shit.