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

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

Once you went to the trouble to self-incorporate, self-insure
and get yourself on a company's approved vendor list, you 
would no longer be subject to the 100-day annual layoff rule
anyway.  It's a worthwhile effort if you service multiple clients
as a contractor, and especially if you sub out work to other
contractors or hire W2 temps of your own, but for a single
person operation all with one client, it would have to be a
pretty high-dollar longterm contract to justify it.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>
> However, the poster on the STC forum is not complaining about working as
> a contractor, he just has a problem being unemployed for that 100 days,
> given that Microsoft is by far the biggest employer of techwriters in
> his area, and interim jobs are quite scarce.
> 
> Microsoft would seem to have an interest in retaining a worker who knows
> the company, knows the project/product, and has a proven work history
> with them - it's only the letter of the law that causes them to exclude
> him for 100 days per year.
> 
> So, my question was: Couldn't Microsoft hire a one-man corporation to
> take over for him while he's on ... er... hiatus... and that one-man
> corporation would just happen to have our poster as its only employee...
> and prez, and shareholder...   ?
> 
> Are the rules (of employment standards OR of taxation) so explicit or so
> arcane that such an approach would be either explicitly prohibited or
> made bureaucratically uncomfortable for all parties?  Or is it something
> that is commonly done - and I didn't know because I don't work there and
> so don't face those problems?  Or do I just think differently enough
> that I'm the first one to suggest it? (unlikely...)

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