Re: Future Tech Writer with Software Questions

["William Sherman" <bsherman77 -at- embarqmail -dot- com>]

Like many words, meanings are often dependent on the context. In the context 
of government and companies, contractors are the companies bidding and 
winning the government contracts.

In the context of people, contractors are either independent contractors or 
"contract employees", meaning those who work by contract. Gene implies they 
are employees, and they are, sort of. They are employees only for the terms 
and conditions of the contract between them and the job shop (employee 
provider). They frequently change shops and follow the jobs. They are 
contractors to the job shops essentially the same way Boeing, Lockheed, 
Northrop, etc. are contractors to the government.

Many refer to these as temp agencies but that is misleading as many group 
that with Kelly girls and such. The true "contract employees" or job 
shoppers worked for job shops, that contracted specialized experienced 
individuals from a high tech world into the world of usually military 
defense hardware providers. Unfortunately, some refer to any temporary 
person as a contractor, which is as accurate as calling the 4 rotor remote 
control helicopter toys "drones".





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From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: "Ed" <glassnet -at- gmail -dot- com>; "Rick Lippincott" <rjl6955 -at- gmail -dot- com>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: Future Tech Writer with Software Questions