<story><title>Tesla reviewing contractors, firing everyone not vouched for by an employee</title><url>https://electrek.co/2018/05/06/tesla-brutal-review-contractors-firing-vouching-employee/#disqus_thread</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lsc</author><text>Sounds shocking... but having worked as a contractor for a goodly portion of my career, I&amp;#x27;d argue that something is seriously wrong if you can&amp;#x27;t get at least one employee to vouch for you.&lt;p&gt;Really, every place I&amp;#x27;ve worked, you could say this happens every month; almost always I&amp;#x27;ve needed an employee to sign off on my hours, either the person I report to or the person they report to.  I always took that as a vote of confidence, personally.&lt;p&gt;(I mean, obviously, even if I get fired, I expect to get paid for hours worked, but point being, the guy just signed off on spending $15k-$20K, depending on the body shop cut, for a month of my work, I&amp;#x27;d assume that would trigger at least a few minutes of &amp;quot;what did Luke do for me this month?&amp;quot; and a phone call letting me know not to come in Monday if the answer was &amp;quot;Not much&amp;quot;.)</text></comment>
<story><title>Tesla reviewing contractors, firing everyone not vouched for by an employee</title><url>https://electrek.co/2018/05/06/tesla-brutal-review-contractors-firing-vouching-employee/#disqus_thread</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandvm</author><text>As a contractor myself, this sounds like a great idea. If there aren&amp;#x27;t multiple people at an organization that can vouch for you, there&amp;#x27;s a good chance you&amp;#x27;re dead weight - or at any rate, there are no checks in place to prevent you from becoming so.</text></comment>