Rant!!!

[Jeebo72]

I have no hair ... and my man boobs aren't enormous ... yet ...

But if you ever need someone to do paper filling and testing, i could wear a wig ...

[Zippy]

But if you ever need someone to do paper filling and testing, i could wear a wig ...

Filling? I don't think so. Tea, no sugar and just a dash of milk. Ta love.

[centurian]

I do not 'live too far away' for any contract.

That really winds me up as well.

The problem is I can partially understand ClientCo's position (and the agents are just reflecting that), because they've probably been burned before by people who have said exactly what you have said, only for the reality to be something different when they have started.

Talk is cheap, people (whether permie or contractor) are not. They'd rather not take the risk if there are closer candidates available.

[jmo21]

The problem is I can partially understand ClientCo's position (and the agents are just reflecting that), because they've probably been burned before by people who have said exactly what you have said, only for the reality to be something different when they have started.

Talk is cheap, people (whether permie or contractor) are not. They'd rather not take the risk if there are closer candidates available.

Current clientco were expecting a PM from the other end of the country on a Monday at 9am. Phone call from agent at 9:30am, he missed his flight, getting the 10am

By 12, he wasn't coming at all.

If you are burned in that manner, you are probably most likely to assume it's because he got something more local, and I can see how that would sour people on a "travelling" contractor, especially when then there are 100 more guys lining up for the role.

[Mich the Tester]

Have now removed place of residence from CV. If clientco asks, it's just down the road. Shall not stand for this tulip any more.

Anyway, if clientco wants someone local, why advertise on the internet, which by its very definition is a 'a global system of interconnected computer networks' serving 'billions of users worldwide'? (according to wikipedia, and I have no evidence to the contrary)

If you must have someone local, stick an ad on the board in your local pub, you f**king morons, and stop wasting good porn bandwidth telling the whole f**king planet you want a professional tester when actually you want a local inbred village idiot with an affliction.

[pzz76077]

Current clientco were expecting a PM from the other end of the country on a Monday at 9am. Phone call from agent at 9:30am, he missed his flight, getting the 10am

By 12, he wasn't coming at all.

If you are burned in that manner, you are probably most likely to assume it's because he got something more local, and I can see how that would sour people on a "travelling" contractor, especially when then there are 100 more guys lining up for the role.

This 'live too far away' thing always winds me up as well. Ive worked on all 5 and a half continents and had no problem getting in for 8:00 anywhere.
I suppose there are some poor dears that cant cope with being away from home etc. They are not really what I would call professional contractors though.

PZZ

[OwlHoot]

James Bach and Cem Kaner give a very good explanation as to why automated regression testing is useless. Buy 'lessons learned in software testing'; damn good stuff.

It sounds like a load of doctrinaire tosh.

Yes, automated regression testing has its limits; but when used with test-driven software development, smoke testing is a damned site better than nothing!

(If only as a sanity check that new fixes and enhancemens haven't broken anything)

[OwlHoot]

oh dear you sound like you're getting the same tulipe job wise my OH is atm.

No, I don't take any tulipe like that.

I soon put agents right about being willing to work away from home for example.

OH

[norrahe]

No, I don't take any tulipe like that.

I soon put agents right about being willing to work away from home for example.

OH

Mr Nor not OH

missed a good night on wednesday

[Mich the Tester]

It sounds like a load of doctrinaire tosh.

Yes, automated regression testing has its limits; but when used with test-driven software development, smoke testing is a damned site better than nothing!

(If only as a sanity check that new fixes and enhancemens haven't broken anything)

It can help a little bit, but nothing like as much as a good impact analysis and a short, intensive exploratory test. Trouble is, 99% of the time, automated testing is used as an overpriced means of trying to cover up holes in the dev process, created by bad planning, usually as a result of crap project management. All it does is keep a problem in place, instead of dealing with the real problem, that developers are not paid to think about what they´re doing before they do it. Deadlines are holy, quality doesn't matter. Result; huge costs, big delays, angry users.