Things move fast in finance
When last we left our subject, an unexpected offer was tendered.
So after some thought, I had told my boss I was interested in the Team Lead position, and I named a salary number which he felt was acceptable. We talked about timing and decided that while I would start to fill the team lead role when the current lead leaves in a couple weeks, I wouldn't actually become a full-time employee until December.
For those of you not hip to the contractor lifestyle, it is common when going through a temp agency that they will have language in the contract which states that if the employer you are contracting with wants to hire you full-time during said contract, the employer will have to pay a usually hefty finder's fee to the recruiting agency.
In my case, my contract runs through early December, so the boss said we would need to run out the contract before I could become a real employee. This was all not unexpected and fairly standard operating procedure so we agreed and shook hands and everything.
Fast forward to yesterday (ooh, forward into the past...nice), boss comes by my cubicle and drops off some paperwork. He says that everything is approved, I just need to go through the motions of filling out an actual application for employment for HR. "Okay," says I. "So I just need to get this in at some point before my start date in December?"
"No," he blithely informs me. "This is effective as soon as [current team lead] leaves. [Account manager for contracting agency] agreed to waive the fee." He then adds that management actually approved an offer for $1,000 more per year than I actually asked for.
So now, assuming consenting deities and low rivers, and also assuming that there is not some subsequent holdup with HR, I'll turn into a real boy in early November, instead of December, with sick days and vacation days and maybe even a slightly larger cubicle near a window.
Perhaps ironically, this ascension is currently scheduled to take place almost exactly one year plus one week after I was laid off from my last job. Take that, economy!
So after some thought, I had told my boss I was interested in the Team Lead position, and I named a salary number which he felt was acceptable. We talked about timing and decided that while I would start to fill the team lead role when the current lead leaves in a couple weeks, I wouldn't actually become a full-time employee until December.
For those of you not hip to the contractor lifestyle, it is common when going through a temp agency that they will have language in the contract which states that if the employer you are contracting with wants to hire you full-time during said contract, the employer will have to pay a usually hefty finder's fee to the recruiting agency.
In my case, my contract runs through early December, so the boss said we would need to run out the contract before I could become a real employee. This was all not unexpected and fairly standard operating procedure so we agreed and shook hands and everything.
Fast forward to yesterday (ooh, forward into the past...nice), boss comes by my cubicle and drops off some paperwork. He says that everything is approved, I just need to go through the motions of filling out an actual application for employment for HR. "Okay," says I. "So I just need to get this in at some point before my start date in December?"
"No," he blithely informs me. "This is effective as soon as [current team lead] leaves. [Account manager for contracting agency] agreed to waive the fee." He then adds that management actually approved an offer for $1,000 more per year than I actually asked for.
So now, assuming consenting deities and low rivers, and also assuming that there is not some subsequent holdup with HR, I'll turn into a real boy in early November, instead of December, with sick days and vacation days and maybe even a slightly larger cubicle near a window.
Perhaps ironically, this ascension is currently scheduled to take place almost exactly one year plus one week after I was laid off from my last job. Take that, economy!