Originally posted by funkyd
I bet he hasn't even thought of the ramifications, anyway. Does he have any idea what his true costs are? He's probably looking at your monthly invoice and thinking you're a bit pricey.
It's worth you considering taking it on if you can make it work in conjunction with something else, say another local contract. That way if anything happens which you can't fix remotely, you can always pop down within the agreed SLA time (call it 4 hours, or lunchtime to be more precise )
You'd also need to look at (and look at getting) a decent outsourcing contract (it would run to several thousand pages) to make sure you're in control, not the client. Charge them your rate plus an admin percentage (100% seems reasonable - IBM's would be more like 500%).
It's not just replacing your arse. That's the easy bit. With any luck, you could suggest to the board that they outsource all the IT to you, and they can get rid of the idiot IT manager. That would be a tad ironic, don't you think?
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