I just started a new contract, and yet again I landed up with a 800x600 4:3 monitor and a dying laptop. But company policy is I MUST USE THESE because of PAT testing. But under the desks is spaghetti junction of wires...
At the start of my contracting I invested about ~£400 on nice dell 2xU241H monitors and floating desk stand cause. ON vertical and one horizontal monitor - I love it and that is how I best code.
Can I just get a PAT company to test my cords and monitors, slap a sticker on it and certificate of testing and bring in my monitors. Seriosly man, did I ever tell a plumber they need to use my approved swiss knife only to install my central heating? This is really pee'ing me off now, every, single, place I start at (except one direct contract, I just used my laptop and monitors and started codding within 2 hours) always the same problem, bla bla bla. Now I am contracted for a massive global company, 4 days in, I still have not looked the code cause the dev machine is cr*p, I cant see any thing!
Any advice on this? I am sure allot of you may not be bothered (as I 90% contractors working on the 14" screen and are happy chappy) I cant work like that. The more I see the more I can understand and do.
Then then they say I got to used Visual Studio 2012... yea, I have my own 2013,2015 MSDN license, my own office 2016, my own everything. No, its against IT policy, you must use old software to create cutting edge software. I think these policies are meant for normal employees to stop them fron installing rubbish, but force developes into a sandbox with no privlegas to design cutting edge stuff.
At the start of my contracting I invested about ~£400 on nice dell 2xU241H monitors and floating desk stand cause. ON vertical and one horizontal monitor - I love it and that is how I best code.
Can I just get a PAT company to test my cords and monitors, slap a sticker on it and certificate of testing and bring in my monitors. Seriosly man, did I ever tell a plumber they need to use my approved swiss knife only to install my central heating? This is really pee'ing me off now, every, single, place I start at (except one direct contract, I just used my laptop and monitors and started codding within 2 hours) always the same problem, bla bla bla. Now I am contracted for a massive global company, 4 days in, I still have not looked the code cause the dev machine is cr*p, I cant see any thing!
Any advice on this? I am sure allot of you may not be bothered (as I 90% contractors working on the 14" screen and are happy chappy) I cant work like that. The more I see the more I can understand and do.
Then then they say I got to used Visual Studio 2012... yea, I have my own 2013,2015 MSDN license, my own office 2016, my own everything. No, its against IT policy, you must use old software to create cutting edge software. I think these policies are meant for normal employees to stop them fron installing rubbish, but force developes into a sandbox with no privlegas to design cutting edge stuff.
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