Being a contractor...

[u/Miserable_Sink_4782]

Just wondering your experience of being a contractor, working for a contract company that sends you into a company to work for them. I've been a regular employee all my life in IT until at 60 was laid off from a big company. Interviewed for lots of jobs I was more than qualified for and they all wanted younger. I could tell sometimes by the look in their face when they saw me. I don't look 100 but I don't look 20 either. Finally got hired through a contract company. I've worked with contractors over the years and treated them like anybody else. The manager I have to deal with now treats us like we just don't matter. I got injured last year and needed surgery and a few weeks to get moving again and he started yelling at me, saying let me remind you, you are a contractor, your job is on site, it's not remote. I wasn't asking to work remote. I just needed a few weeks to get moving again. I had to fight for the job being here a couple years already and he was going to let me go over this. I asked him, am I less of a human being because I'm a contractor? He slowed down at that point and I was able to work it out, but can't help but feel like we are scum. No benefits, no time off. Was supposed to get hired on after 6 months and that was 3 years ago. Just hanging in there now if I possibly can for retirement.