• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    8 months ago

    I don’t like how they talk about the 18/6 rule. It’s a well known rule in the contracting world. It’s not a Microsoft rule, it’s a law I believe. You can contact for 18 months at a company like Microsoft and then you have to move on.

    The article makes it seem like Microsoft is being a terrible company, which they are, but not because of the rule. The rule is a law because it’s supposed to cut down on companies abusing contractors and keeping them long term, rather than just making them full time employees. That was done by many companies to avoid paying benefits instead claiming the age old “hey they’re just contractors”.

    So Microsoft isn’t bad for obeying th law. They’re bad for not listening to the spirit of the law, which is that “if a contactor has been good for as long as 18 months, just hire them”. Instead Microsoft does the dick move of “hey great work, amazing even, but sorry nothing we can do apply again in 6 months”.

    They turned it into a revolving door