Thanks for the comment. Love it . It’s strange that you brought this topic to work ethics and from what the comment posted I can relate to the psychology of your comment. To answer your question about Loyalty and Responsibility it has to work both ways. An environment that is one sided does not give either a salaried or a contractor to have the comfort of being loyal. Simple example when a salaried staff is on sick leave many times its been joked in the office that this staff member must be busy shopping or on holiday where as when a contractor does not turn up to work its too bad because they do not get paid for that time. No matter if you come to work on time if part of the early day goes in having breakfast and cups of coffee is it worth it? Instead if a developer/ administrator/ someone who is not client facing be it salaried or contractor walks in late and works later or has the same productive output as the person who walked in earlier what difference does it make? Again one on one meetings are held with a staff member in mind to nurture them and allow them to grow but when it comes to moving on guess its sad to see the investment out the door when all training provided has walked off to a new job. Either ways I still believe to be loyal both the employer and the people working have to share the same values. In today’s world sadly individual contributions overtime to an organization or a project could be forgotten. Not all organization practice this though ?.Traditionally it has only been in Sales and Marketing where a staff member’s net worth to an organization is only as good as last months performance (both salaried and contractors). In today’s world this is across the board. Finally all too often when projects go the wrong way the lessons learnt exercise (Post Implementation Review) which follows all boils down to nothing more than a finger pointing exercise to identify a fall guy be it (salaried or contractor). It would be far more productive if the lessons learnt exercises where indeed lessons learnt exercises. Chill and don’t go all defensive cause the post focuses on a team effort. At the end of the day some of us humans pay tax and some live on benefits and the argument on tax / benefit is never ending, hence we should respect that each of us have skills and not label our skills to salaried / contractors.
I hope you did not post comments during working hours lol!!!. Thanks though for posting your comments. Look forward to receiving your views on other blogs in the future. Cheers

Today, too many contractors forget the impact they have on FTE’s when they arrive at work late, or not at all. The disposition of being paid by the hour is used as an execuse that everything evens out at the end. This is simply not the case.

Loyalty and Responsibility to your employer and colleagues is what creates a work ethic, not whether you are a contractor or FTE.