Re: What's MS Experience worth on your resume?

[voxwoman <voxwoman -at- gmail -dot- com>]

This has to do with the 9th Circuit Court ruling many years ago (2000? 2001?
1999? '98?). The contractors sued microsoft because they were denied stock
options and watched the "real" employees doing the same work one desk over
become millionaires while they just collected their paychecks. The Court
ruling found that since the contractors were continuously employed for a
long period of time (sometimes 10 or more years), they were de-facto
employees and then granted a large settlement.

The 100 days of layoffs is the loophole to keep from hiring real employees.
After the ruling, most US corporations started similar practices.

-Wendy

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:18 PM, McLauchlan, Kevin <
Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:

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> > Just saw this posting over at the STC Forum:
> >
> > http://stcforum.org/viewtopic.php?id=1481
> >
> > and it got me wondering whether having experience working for MS in
> > itself could make him a more attractive candidate, or what ways he
> > could use it to his advantage in looking for other work to fill in
> > those 100-day gaps.
>
> Are there no workarounds that he could use?
>
> Does Microsoft (or any other big company) create projects that last only
> 265 calendar days (or whatever lesser number of working-days that works
> out to...)?  Or do they just have big projects into which they slot one
> contractor after another?
>
> What would the US employment and taxation rules say about the guy having
> a corporation that would hire him (who co-incidentally was the
> major/only share-holder) for 100 days out of every year, and that
> corporation would contract to provide writing services to Microsoft when
> he wasn't working directly for Microsoft itself...?
>
> No, huh?
>
> Tax man discourages that sort of thing?
>
>
> On a different-but-related note, how persuasive is recent, successful
> Microsoft working experience, when one is applying to Microsoft after
> 100 days away from them?  Does one tend to slide easily back into an
> existing project when one's successor-contractor is ready to depart? Or
> does one start over and fight for the job like anybody off the street?
>
>  - Kevin
>  (in Canada, and a staffer, not a contractor, so I'm just curious how
> the other half lives)
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