01-09-2013
If you are working as a full time employee for a company that classifies you as a contractor (as I am currently doing yourself) you are basically getting screwed by your boss. The government HATES you because you are not conforming, it will express this by punishing you.
Unemployement tax: for regular employees its 50% paid by you, 50% paid by boss... (well, 50-50 of the fees, the actual benefits are paid mostly by general taxes not collected fees in checks).
As a contractor you pay 100% of that very same fee yourself and are INELIGIBLE to receive ANY benefits at all.
Medicare/medicaid: Those also go from 50-50 split to 100% you, but at least you are eligible.
Healthcare: if you work over 30 hours a week obamacare classifies you as full time employee and boss has to provide healthcare plan drafted by the government or pay a fee/fine which is used to help fund it, they will pay the fee because it is cheaper.
If you are a contractor you have to buy it yourself or pay a fee, and buying it yourself is going to be much more expensive than for a company to negotiate a group deal... unless you are very young and healthy. (with 14 years experience I am thinking you are too old for that).
IIRC there are a few other ways in which you get the shaft too...
But, unfortunately a person has to eat and contractor job is better then no job at all.
Last edited by taltamir; 01-10-2013 at 01:06 PM..
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
rpm2cpio
rpm2cpio(1) User Commands rpm2cpio(1)
NAME
rpm2cpio - convert Red Hat Package (RPM) to cpio archive
SYNOPSIS
rpm2cpio [file.rpm]
DESCRIPTION
The rpm2cpio utility converts the .rpm file specified as its sole argument to a cpio archive on standard output. (See NOTES.) If no argu-
ment is given, an rpm stream is read from standard input. In both cases, rpm2cpio will fail and print a usage message if the standard out-
put is a terminal. Therefore, the output is usually redirected to a file or piped through the cpio(1) utility.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Converting an rpm file
example% rpm2cpio Device3Dfx-1.1-2.src.rpm | cpio -itv
CPIO archive found!
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2635 Sep 13 16:39 1998, 3dfx.gif
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11339 Sep 27 16:03 1998, Dev3Dfx.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1387 Sep 27 16:04 1998, Device3Dfx-1.1-2.spec
31 blocks
Example 2: Converting from standard input
example% rpm2cpio < Device3Dfx-1.1-2.src.rpm | cpio -itv
CPIO archive found!
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2635 Sep 13 16:39 1998, 3dfx.gif
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11339 Sep 27 16:03 1998, Dev3Dfx.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1387 Sep 27 16:04 1998, Device3Dfx-1.1-2.spec
31 blocks
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWrpm |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
cpio(1), attributes(5)
NOTES
rpm2cpio handles versions 3 and 4 RPMs.
SunOS 5.10 20 Aug 2001 rpm2cpio(1)