[JOB] Python contract

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 05/22/2009 09:34 PM, David Kramer wrote:
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
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>> Be careful with Modis. I've been doing contract work since the late
>> 1980s, and based on my prior experience with Modis, I would not ever u=
se
>> them again.
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>
> Can you give specifics?
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My experience goes back to 1998. I had a contract with Modis (New=20
Hampshire) at a small defense contractor in Burlington. I had no real=20
problems with them as I knew the people at that office which had been=20
acquired by Modis. My next contract was with Polaroid's ID division in=20
Bedford (their only profitable division at the time), then after the=20
Polaroid contrat, I went to Raytheon in Bedford, but my contract was=20
with HP. The agency was an agency in Woburn that had been acquired by=20
Modis. Apparently Modis had acquired only the engineering part of the=20
agency. This was a strange deal where I was asked to sign all my time=20
sheets for a year. The job included both holidays and some vacation time =

(unusual for a contract). After about 4 months I was contacted by Modis=20
and told that they had a new timesheet form. So, I then signed the forms =

for the rest of the year and gave them to my HP contract admin. I was=20
then informed that Modis was moving from the Woburn office to their=20
existing Burlington office. Apparently, when they bought the engineering =

consulting division of the other company, there was a non-compete which=20
expired in mid-1999, and the owner of that company wanted to reopen the=20
engineering consulting division. The only person from the original=20
company to make the move to Woburn was a secretary. I then got a call=20
from someone who said that he was my contact at Modis, and he took me=20
out to lunch. A few months later, I was nearing the end of the contract=20
and while I knew that I would be renewed, I wanted to check my=20
possibilities. I also generally give my current contract agency a heads=20
up if they want to place me. This is when the fun started. I went to=20
call Modis in Burlington, and I found that I had a new contact person.=20
The first question I asked was when was the official end of my contract. =

My contact was a vp, who asked me to send her a resume. After a period=20
of time, I emailed her to query about whether she had received my resume =

(she said she did not), and when the official end of my contract was, so =

I emailed her my resume again. She then told me that HP personnel had=20
never heard of me. So I told her to check with the contract admin=20
Andover. She told me that they don't deal with anoyone other than=20
personnel. I also asked her about my resume, and if she received it this =

time. She was very curt and said that she had no jobs. I asked her to=20
check with Modis, NH, and she said she did and they had no jobs. The=20
emails I received from her was equally curt. I then decided to contact=20
the other agencies I dealt with, and hooked up with Compaq in=20
Marlborough. I then got a threatening email from her about a non-compete =

clause in my contract. I knew my contract only restricted me to=20
Raytheon. Basically, the whole thing was really strange since I knew=20
there were plenty of jobs out there at the time. Compaq actually gave me =

a choice of  a couple of jobs Additionally, I had lunch with my HP=20
contract admin and he told me he was having problems with Modis also. In =

my experience with contract agencies, most were very appreciative when I =

would give them a heads up towards the end of a contract.

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