Further into the corporate void

[nolapenguin]

I got a reply from Mr. Big Bad HR Guy at corporate. This evening he sent me this note:

There is a strict contractual prohibition on soliciting Outsource-R-Us employees to hire into DefenseTron, especially former DefenseTron employees. It is part and parcel of the ORU-DT master agreement, which, of course, you would not have. Also, we have covered the policy verbally in dozens of town hall meetings, and your HR and IT leaders have been briefed multiple times on it.

The policy is no hiring Outsource-R-Us employees. The only exception is where a ORU employee has responded to a public posting or advertisement to a job and ORU consents to allowing its employee to pursue the job opportunity. If ORU does not provide consent, the employee may not be pursued or hired by DefenseTron.*

So Mr. Big Bad HR Guy has given me what no other former DefenseTron employee has gotten: the path home. I immediately forwarded this reply, confidentially of course, on to my buddy in the local HR department. She got back to me as soon as it hit her Blackberry, "If I'm reading this correctly, as long as your company signs off on it, you can apply for the job!"

I've also sent it to my lawyer for further analysis. I want to have ammunition in the background should these shitheels do an about-face when they've discovered ol' HR Guy has given away the secret. About 250 people nationwide were "transitioned" last year, all against their will and none have been given the opportunity to return.

I may be breaking new ground. Or just breaking wind, depending on what my company says.



*Names changed to protect the ignorant.

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[nawlins-penguin.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

[jhohanna.livejournal.com]

GO FOR IT!!!! BUT! I will say this, have your duckies in a row, just in case it doesn't work out. They can say all they want (you DO have it in email, right?), but turn around and fuck you at the drive-thru, like they did me at P last year, too. I do think that it should be perfectly legal, and if you transitioned to the Outsourcer from the Defense Company, and it's longer than 12 or 24 months, depending on the contract, there shouldn't be a problem.

I *HATE* this shit, too. I can't tell you how many years I spent as a contractor dealing with this kind of stuff. The worst was getting molested by my boss at MCI. :\ I had to knock him out, steal his truck, and go back to work on my own, and I STILL had to work with the muthafucka.

[nawlins-penguin.livejournal.com]

Geebus, are you kidding me? You didn't file charges against him or anything?

[jhohanna.livejournal.com]

Nope, I was a contractor. I couldn't do shit, cuz his WIFE was the office manager of the company I hired contractors from. :(