Politics, repressed anger, more politics and the feeling that I'm never going to be enough.
Been doing that for 16 years now and it feels like 10 years too many at this point.
How do you manage to go on?
weird 1: all intellectual property is to be the consulting company's property. How can that be? I mean it'd make sense to be the customers property.
weird 2: I need to get a liability insurance and a very high at that. Shouldn't umbrella provide that? What the heck do they do anyway if they don't even do that?
weird 3: while I work under this contract and for a year afterwards I cannot work in any capacity for ANY customer of the umbrella company (not even as a direct hire).
4. Anything going wrong, the umbrella company is indemnified and I bear the full responsibility. Again. What the heck do we need the umbrella for?
Company A is a global company but the umbrella company is in UK. Dunno, it's annoying that this third party company sprang out of nowhere (why do we need a middleman here?) but it's doubly annoying to have to commit to all these legalese and extra costs.
Is that a normal thing or have I bumped into a weird market spot here?
Tangent: I wanted to try my luck as a contractor at some point but I now realize that you cannot really be a freelancer in the sense that a lot of companies do not hire freelancers but rather contractors working under certain umbrella companies. I find this distressing. Why a freelancer would add a middleman in the mix? I mean isn't the whole point of freelancing to cut away the middlemen?
I'm confused...
