After a little deliberating, I decided not to take my six month extension for a large Outsourcing consultancy.
What a shambles. There is an addage that says contractors should just do the job and take the money - kerching. But what happens when the work you are doing is all 'do it now, do it now' - not 'lets do it properly'
After writing management reports that produce about 150 different tables, I was told to stop the automatic production of the reports, wait for management to send back a spreadsheet of amendments on a daily basis and then manually change all 150 reports by typing the new figures directly into the spreadsheets (Even though I tried to explain that they were not Excel)
I had explained that the amendments should be done to the database and then we would just rerun the suite - obvious - but no! senior management reckoned it was a doddle just to type over the numbers manually involving another 2-3hours of manual work a day and didnt want to wait for the amendments to the system. And as I was the only one who knows how it works - I was going to land up doing it.
Nah. I think not. By the way was my answer, you didnt get the paperwork to me on time and so Im off.
Its I.T not Shhhhhhh I.T.
Knobs.
What a shambles. There is an addage that says contractors should just do the job and take the money - kerching. But what happens when the work you are doing is all 'do it now, do it now' - not 'lets do it properly'
After writing management reports that produce about 150 different tables, I was told to stop the automatic production of the reports, wait for management to send back a spreadsheet of amendments on a daily basis and then manually change all 150 reports by typing the new figures directly into the spreadsheets (Even though I tried to explain that they were not Excel)
I had explained that the amendments should be done to the database and then we would just rerun the suite - obvious - but no! senior management reckoned it was a doddle just to type over the numbers manually involving another 2-3hours of manual work a day and didnt want to wait for the amendments to the system. And as I was the only one who knows how it works - I was going to land up doing it.
Nah. I think not. By the way was my answer, you didnt get the paperwork to me on time and so Im off.
Its I.T not Shhhhhhh I.T.
Knobs.
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