So, my employment situation is a little complex right now. I'm working as a contractor at a small subsidiary of a much larger company. The parent company does all of its contracting through Contract Agency A, but Contract Agency A sometimes does contracts through sub-contractors: in my case, Contract Agency B. And, for tax reasons, I am actually sub-contracted to Agency B through my own company. So, the chain looks like this:<\/p>\n
Company Where I Work » Parent « Agency A « Agency B « My Company « me *<\/sup><\/p>\n I fill out a time card with Agency A, who bills my employer and then pays Agency B who pays my company, who then pays me as my accountant dictates. Very exiting.<\/p>\n So, as part of my trying to convert from contract to full-time, I have to go through a standard background check - they check past employment, references, residences, credit scores, etc.. And for current employment on the background check form, I listed \"Agency B\", since they're the people who got me the job and they're the company everyone in the chain considers my actual employer. We just worked out this sub-contract thing to boost my hourly take-home pay, since I already had (note past tense) benefits through my wife and could handle the taxes on my own.<\/p>\n The company doing the background check is having trouble verifying this, though. See, I'm not actually an employee of Agency B, so I don't show up in their employment records. In their eyes, I'm actually an employee of my own company. But, the background check agency doesn't want to hear that I employ myself; they want something a little more concrete. <\/p>\n But wait, I asked the background check people, why do you need me to prove that I work for any of these agencies? Shouldn't the fact that I've been sitting in this cubicle, at this company, for 12 months prove to this same company that I'm employed here (regardless of how the billing and sub-contracting flows) ? What are you trying to prove? Shouldn't the fact that, aside from the accounting, I already work here<\/strong>, be enough to prove that I am currently in this position? Shouldn't the fact that the Company and the Parent both agree that I work here be proof enough? No, it is not.<\/p>\n So, I've been on the phone with Agency B, trying to get them to email me the 1099 to prove that I'm sub'd through them so I can prove to the background check people that I'm doing the job that everybody already knows I'm doing<\/strong>. <\/p>\n * - Finally, a legitimate use for \"raquo\" » and \"laquo\" « !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, my employment situation is a little complex right now. I'm working as a contractor at a small subsidiary of a much larger company. The parent company does all of its contracting through Contract Agency A, but Contract Agency A sometimes does contracts through sub-contractors: in my case, Contract Agency B. And, for tax reasons, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}