Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rpics!yerazuws From: yerazuws@rpics.RPI.EDU (Crah) Newsgroups: misc.legal,comp.edu Subject: Re: Sorry - Independent contractors and the law Message-ID: <568@rpics.RPI.EDU> Date: Fri, 2-Jan-87 11:02:49 EST Article-I.D.: rpics.568 Posted: Fri Jan 2 11:02:49 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Jan-87 20:47:17 EST References: <2352@mtuxo.UUCP> <488@unc.unc.UUCP> <795@maynard.BSW.COM> Organization: RPI CS Dept., Troy NY, USA Lines: 29 Keywords: taxes Moynihan contractors sleaze Summary: "Consulting" at DEC Xref: mnetor misc.legal:511 comp.edu:27 In article <795@maynard.BSW.COM>, campbell@maynard.BSW.COM (Larry Campbell) writes: > >(2) I read recently (where? I can't remember) that Grace Murray > >Hopper was hired as a high-level consultant at DEC. Being a software > >type (well.... at least a "similar line of work"), doesn't that mean > >that Admiral Hopper can not be a consultant but must be an ordinary > >employee (at least for tax purposes)? > > Grace Hopper is an employee of DEC, whose title happens to include the > word consultant. > -- > Larry Campbell The Boston Software Works, Inc. > Internet: campbell@maynard.uucp 120 Fulton Street, Boston MA 02109 > uucp: {alliant,wjh12}!maynard!campbell +1 617 367 6846 > ARPA: campbell%maynard.uucp@harvisr.harvard.edu MCI: LCAMPBELL Quite true - DEC has an interesting method of retaining people who've shown that they are hyper-sharp but don't want to move up in the management chain of command. It's called "Consulting Engineer" status and there are three main levels- Consulting, Group Consulting, and Corporate Consulting. Each level gets paid more than the previous level, and the rate is commensurate with managers pay rates. Consulting engineers don't have to manage (that would keep them away from doing what they do so well- engineering). Instead, they get to do NEAT stuff. For example, Richie Larrie is a consulting engineer - who just happened to be the designer of the HSC50 and HSC70. Clearly, he isn't bored. And all of these "Consulting engineers" are employees, not contractors.