Ahem

[suityou01]

If the claim that contractors are generally more capable than their permie counterparts is true, shouldn't we expect contractors to be dumped into horrible messes as the "hired gun"?


Provided they are paid accordingly of course... sorting out the whole system doesn't sound like £200/day work for instance. Is the rate worth it SY01?

BTW, why do you want an in to insurance? Simply the money, or is there something about that sector that makes it intrinsically interesting to you?

Being the hired gun supposes you are given some clout.

Take this conversation with the PM for example

PM : "What do you mean there's more problems, why are we hitting problems, we're going live in an hour"

ME: "Sure, but you told me this was passed UAT, and all I had to do was deploy it"

PM: "Yeah but you should look inside what you are deploying, you can't make assumptions it makes us look bad"

ME: "Either is has passed UAT or not, if we have no confidence in the UAT then lets run it again"

PM: "There's no time for that"

ME: "So we have to make some assumptions then"

[Zippy]

Being the hired gun supposes you are given some clout.

Take this conversation with the PM for example

PM : "What do you mean there's more problems, why are we hitting problems, we're going live in an hour"

ME: "Sure, but you told me this was passed UAT, and all I had to do was deploy it"

PM: "Yeah but you should look inside what you are deploying, you can't make assumptions it makes us look bad"

ME: "Either is has passed UAT or not, if we have no confidence in the UAT then lets run it again"

PM: "There's no time for that"

ME: "So we have to make some assumptions then"

Holy crap, am sure I worked with that guy. It didn't end well (for him)

[OwlHoot]

Was going to post something...

Can't be arsed now.

If you remember what it was please don't hesitate to post. I'm sure it must have been important.