Posts by EN1R0PY

Re: To be honest, I don't think this goes far enough at all

No one benefits? I think you are only seeing it from one perspective, try thinking about the employees pov: make it harder to employ temp staff and the company will have to look after its perm staff better! Perm staff are in fact people, taxpayers and human effing being too didn't you know?

The contractors like to claim employees are just jelly the contractors get paid more, yes for the same work of course we think it's unfair, however there's also the commoditization of tech employees. Business now generally treat all tech staff as if they are not really employees, once had a 2 hour lecture in a town hall about how in India and China they can make the staff work all night and sack them if they refuse. Imagine that lecture being given to sales or manufacturing? They'd all be up in arms!! Educated, experienced, employed engineers holding grad and post grad degrees in the actual work that they do are talked to like street rats begging for crumbs all because the contractors, here and abroad, have tought the management to think of engineers as only interested in making it to end of their contract taking as much money as possible as they go. Contractors are a convenience, employees are the real life blood of a business. Carry on putting contractors ahead of employees, have all tech jobs moved to India and every business in the west closed then who benefits exactly? Not the Indians, because we won't have any money to paid them anymore.

Re: Good for HMRC

If you pay a lower percentage of your income as tax than anyone else earning the same amount you are a tax dodger, says everyone who pays their fair share!

Contractor pay is inflated to begin with, don't give me some nonsense about how it works out the same, the same work I do goes for 400 or more a day as a contractor, I get a lot less that that but pay a higher total percentage in tax than a contractor doing the same, I contribute my fair share, they don't, end of. So what I get one day off in 14, that doesn't make up for the contractors getting paid twice and taxed half as much as I do. If that contractor wage was taxed with PAYE they would pay more tax, so compared to me and other employees they are reducing contributions, regardless of how much more in total they get paid than me. Where does the extra money go? In their pocket, not to the NHS, not the police or to fight covid, but to your second home and Tesla payments, grubby thieves!

You are either directly benefiting from this clearly unfair situation, or you are not very bright, if you think it's defensible. To give a specific example based on ability and contribution to the business: SW tester contractors get paid more than SW developers, which proves that skill and responsibility have less of an impact on pay than whether you a contactor or employed, how is that right? It's either you get paid more OR you pay less tax for loosing 1/14 days now both, contractors make a free choice to get both and still cry all over the internet about it.

Re: A couple of things here I'm surprised about

Because theres no reason for overpaid underworked lazy contractors to come crying on mummies shoulder then is there?

Re: I'm going to go out on a limb...

Then if you are not economically and emotionally able to deal with the uncertainty that comes with being paid more maybe you should make different choices rather than crying for sympathy from people who get their extra money in bonuses that never get paid because once again the company splurged the budget paying one person to work for the same money they could employ 2 graduates.

Re: I'm going to go out on a limb...

Exactly! 450 a day (~100k a year), no one outside of the executive gets paid that much, certainly no employed r&d engineer! The point is that it supposed to be fair, contractors think it's unfair because they don't get all the benefits, employees think it's unfair that they get paid less and taxed more (paying more for the NHS and other things contractors still use) and have no choice about it while having to listen to you winge about how you want to pay even less tax. Here's a question for the high and mighty contactors if you really earn what you are paid how come many businesses are getting rid of you? Answer: you were never more important to the company than other engineers you were just a flexible way of managing the number of bums on seats. So now we've got rid of the notion that you have somehow earned the right to be paid more and pay less tax then everyone else please explain how allowing this tax dodging helps anyone but the contractors? I want too is not a mature arguement...

That quote was not Boeing defending the old software but talking about the changes in the new release so when you ask them to "just shut up" a la Gavin Williamson would prefer they don't creat fixes at all or they aren't transparent about what those fixes are?

I get they f'ed up to the extent of people dying and I'm in no way defending that it happened but they are explaining what they have done to try to ensure it won't happen again. How is shut up a helpful response? They also said "failure conditions" not failure examples so unless there was a problem aside from a sensor failing causing a safety feature to misbehave there is only one "disastrous failure condition".

Its nee jerk responses like this that feed Trump's post truth world. "Have a go at them not matter what they say cos the internet told me to be mad, but forgive the corrupt fascist politicians cos the internet told me to do that too!"