I spent years as a “temporary full-time” employee, having my contract continually renewed but never being made permanent. I was fortunate enough that the job still paid well and I received benefits (although no pension). But it’s a shitty, shitty feeling to have to listen to management tout how much they value their employees one day and then have that same management the next day tell you they aren’t willing to make you permanent. I don’t know who management thinks they’re fooling when they do that. Every single person in the same circumstances as me (and there were quite a few of us) took away the same message: management talks a load of crap and is not be trusted. I think it would have actually been better if they had shut up about how much they love their employees - at least silence would have honest. I can’t even imagine the compartmentalizing necessary to talk about your “extraordinarily talented employees” and then announce a layoff of 800 people in the same earnings report.
At least my story had a happy ending - on the same day they offered me a permanent position, I accepted a job elsewhere.
