The Machine Fired Me
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The Machine Fired Me
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Re: The Machine Fired Me
#2This the problem with automated business processes. It seems easy, until you think about all the exception paths. Human organizations can adapt and handle them organically, but a system needs them all specified up front. Either you spend a massive amount of work to get it right or you have a broken system. And once you have it right, it's hard to change and adapt.
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#33 year contract where you need to come in to the office alongside full time employees every day? How is that not considered full-time?
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#43 year contract where you need to come in to the office alongside full time employees every day? How is that not considered full-time?
Because a contract is not employment. A contractor has less protections than an employee.
It's both good and bad, but typically a contractor gets a higher rate than an employee since health insurance, etc is not provided.
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#5I read it and still don't really understand why there was no one administrating the system. Who could have stopped the system (with the appropriate emails to cover their ass).
I also do not understand why a check couldn't be cut. Submit to accounts payable with an email approval?
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#63 year contract where you need to come in to the office alongside full time employees every day? How is that not considered full-time?
I don't think the author was implying they didn't work full-time but using "full-time" loosely to refer to a salaried employee.
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#7sounds like the machine worked perfectly. it did what it was supposed to do and followed the rules layed out by us humans.
the problem is in the way the workflow is described/implemented - and even with that we would need to see some numbers around how many times the workflow ran vs issues encountered.
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#83 year contract where you need to come in to the office alongside full time employees every day? How is that not considered full-time?
They said they talked to "their recruiter" which usually means they are a full time employee of another organization which has a three year contract to place this person with this company.
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#93 year contract where you need to come in to the office alongside full time employees every day? How is that not considered full-time?
Because a contract is not employment. A contractor has less protections than an employee. It's both good and bad, but typically a contractor gets a higher rate than an employee since health insurance, etc is not provided.
OP was pointing out that if they were a contractor for three years, they were violating IRS rules.
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#10I know I'm speaking from a position of privilege, but I really don't understand how people work at companies like this... The pay must be insane.
Edit: Slight disclaimer, "work at companies like this" in a software/IT role...