Where to people draw their professional lines?

[IsayIsayIsay]

Damn, and there was me about to ask a question based on someone at work being a bit nasty to me!

[WTFH]

AutoCAD

[eek]

AutoCAD

Unless you are a Big 4 consultant - at which point its PowerPoint (yep not even Visio).

[northernladuk]

Damn, and there was me about to ask a question based on someone at work being a bit nasty to me!

Please do. We love posts like that.

[IsayIsayIsay]

Unless you are a Big 4 consultant - at which point its PowerPoint (yep not even Visio).

Does Prezi count?

[Paralytic]

Damn, and there was me about to ask a question based on someone on an internet forum being a bit nasty to me!

FTFY

[cojak]

You do the job you're paid (and contracted) to do. If the client wants an insecure firewall configuration or a non-fault tolerant solution, then tell them why they are being prats - but get it in writing so they don't come after you when it all goes wrong. You can only really refuse to do something if it's illegal or fraudulent.

You are there to do and advise, and record your proposed solution(s) with caveats and risk analyses where needed. Many clients don't always want a perfect solution, just one they are comfortable with.

+1

I crashed and burned in an interview when an arrogant arse asked me about a nice-but-dim contractor in a previous project. I had a disagreement with Nice-But-Dim about a decision a senior manager had made which was not best practise but definitely a case of 'know your battles'. AA knew N-B-D and had obviously been briefed on this and I had walked into a no-win situation and didn't get the contract. (I wasn't going to slag off an ex-colleague but 'Ah Bless' wasn't going to cut it.)

Apart from that, you get your instructions, advise on consequences and alternative options, then you carry out your instructions knowing that there's an extension in the pipeline.

[cojak]

(yep not even Visio).

Or Word for that matter.

[cojak]

Does Prezi count?

(Great for making a good portion of an audience feel slightly sea sick... )

[IsayIsayIsay]

+1

I crashed and burned in an interview when an arrogant arse asked me about a nice-but-dim contractor in a previous project. I had a disagreement with Nice-But-Dim about a decision a senior manager had made which was not best practise but definitely a case of 'know your battles'. AA knew N-B-D and had obviously been briefed on this and I had walked into a no-win situation and didn't get the contract. (I wasn't going to slag off an ex-colleague but 'Ah Bless' wasn't going to cut it.)

Apart from that, you get your instructions, advise on consequences and alternative options, then you carry out your instructions knowing that there's an extension in the pipeline.

I do believe that was neither judgemental or cynical. Thank you, I appreciate your post