Re: Agony of the 3-week guarantee
[email protected] ((Randal L. Schwartz)) Wed, 09 May 2007 12:59:17 -0700
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>>>>> ""Terrence" == "Terrence Brannon" <[email protected]> writes: "Terrence> I have just been introduced to the darkside of something I never ever "Terrence> encountered before. It's called a 3-week guarantee. Under this "Terrence> program, you are an hourly contractor, but for 3 weeks the company has "Terrence> no obligation to pay the agent anything. I'm no lawyer, but I'm not sure that can even be legal. At a minimum, the body shop needs to pay you minimum wage, I would presume. On the other hand, although you can't sign away fundamental rights, you *can* give up some basic reasonable things when you're desperate. Sounds like you were a bit desperate. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[email protected]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!