End of Contract Etiquette

[MrMarkyMark]

Fisher Price - like it. Yes well lets not get into will waving or "Im more important than you" thing....

Depends on whether you do true project work, I guess, also the scope / resources you manage.
You always seem to think we are all the same position, but we are not.

Yep. In a support environment, it doesn't take a week to do a handover anyway.

Ah, proved my previous point, above. Ta!

[Old Greg]

Handovers are a waste of time anyway, any half decent dev team will ensure that no one has all the knowledge to themselves, and can cope when someone is off, ill or has been hit by a bus, no one is indispensable, they're really just a box ticking exercise to make the manager feel that he's doing something managerish (rather than admitting that his job really just entails signing of timesheets and looking after the holidays spreadsheet )

We're not all code monkeys or helpdesk folk. Handover is always a key part of my contracts, and being indispensable in advance of handover is an important part of my operating model.

[northernladuk]

We're not all code monkeys or helpdesk folk. Handover is always a key part of my contracts, and being indispensable in advance of handover is an important part of my operating model.

^ This....

[SlipTheJab]

We're not all code monkeys or helpdesk folk. Handover is always a key part of my contracts, and being indispensable in advance of handover is an important part of my operating model.

Well if it makes you feel important

[northernladuk]

Well if it makes you feel important

Having a different job doesn't make you any more or less important. It's just different. Looking like a pillock however......

[dx4100]

Handover has been absolutely vital in every gig I have had...

[Old Greg]

Well if it makes you feel important

The point is not to feel important, but to make other people feel less important.


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