The fact that Monsanto will exploit contractors (especially on the IT side) and use them for many years without any intent on direct hire creates a very toxic culture at Monsanto. Monsanto does not even have to worry about layoffs of contractors - they just tell them not to show up tomorrow. How is that working out for Monsanto? It's pretty lucrative I would say. I just hope the job market turns and folks start leaving in droves as they are not respected by Monsanto. Now that layoffs are happening, I'd say that many contractors will be gone before 2016 (btw, I heard that Monsanto will be having another round of layoffs in Q1 of 2016).
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Contractor for Monsanto for four years, from 2010-2014, never a hope of getting hired full-time. Left for a real job with benefits in 2014, have not missed Monsanto for a minute. My boss was annoyed that I left the temp job (after four years doing the same work year after year with no benefits/promotion/raise).
How about being happy with what you have now - in a few months you will not even have that contractor position as they ship more and more jobs overseas
Most companies will do stuff like that - it's hard to get to employee status