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Comment by claytonjy | Hacker News Reader

> while he was supposed to be working for one company he was making public github commits for the second

If you're setting their hours, doesn't that make them an employee rather than a contractor, legally speaking?

Maybe it's not a real contractor. I had one job where I was a "contractor", I had set hours, got paid hourly, received a w2. It seemed like just an excuse to be cheap and not provide benefits.

You can be on a W2, but as soon as the contract ends, your employment ends since you're "at will" in the US.

Usually the W2 is provided through an agency and you're getting a paycheck from them while the agency is billing the company for hours at a negotiated rate, often much higher than you're being paid.

Always ask your supervisor how much they're paying for you. You might not be allowed to work for that company soon (non-competes enforced at the agency side), but you can certainly get a better idea of your value.

Most likely they're going to be prohibited from telling you. The best way to do this is to take [person] out for a round of beers. Wait until 3 beers in and see what their number is.

My belief is that 20%-30% of what you're making is a fair number.

Though if it's somewhere where you could really get a foothold and make a lot of money as an employee, 50% might be acceptable.

May have billed a specific time span, but also had commits during that span. Dunno how they proved the github account belonged to the contractor though unless they just admitted to it or used the company email to register.

He probably used the same GitHub for both their repos. I don't see how otherwise it could be connected. Not so bright.

His github username was easily found from his linkedin account.

> Dunno how they proved

people who no longer trust you and don't want to work with you any more generally don't have to prove it.

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