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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shares-admin
shares-admin(1) User Commands shares-admin(1)
NAME
shares-admin - Enables the configuration of shared NFS / SMB directories.
SYNOPSIS
shares-admin [--add-share=PATH] [gnome-std-options]
DESCRIPTION
shares-admin enables a user to configure the sharing of directories / filesystems. These can be shared using either NFS or SAMBA.
This is linked to the ability to right-click on a directory in Nautilus and select "Share folder".
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-a, --add-share=PATH Configure a share for the specified PATH.
gnome-std-options Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5) for more informa-
tion.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Running the main application.
example% shares-admin
Example 2: Sharing a specific directory.
example% shares-admin --add-share=/export/home/shared
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Application exited successfully
>0 Application exited with failure
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/shares-admin Executable for directory sharing configuration.
/var/spool/setup-tool-backends/backup/shares
Backup directory for files that are modified.
/var/run/setup-tool-backends/debug/shares
Debug logs can be found under here.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWgnome-system-tools |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |Uncommitted |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.
users-admin(1), network-admin(1), services-admin(1), time-admin(1), gnome-std-options(5), attributes(5)
NOTES
Written by Darren Kenny, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006.
SunOS 5.11 6 Nov 2006 shares-admin(1)