How to report a cowboy

[contractor79]

Then as long as you make the client know whose doing the work then don't worry.

If he's good enough then they will keep him. If he annoys them with his bulltulip they won't.

But I enjoy purging evil and wrongdoing from my environments.

[TykeMerc]

But I enjoy purging evil and wrongdoing from my environments.

Oh good grief...

[Clippy]

No the cowboy has done nothing wrong personally to me except on the odd occasion try and take credit for my moments of brilliance, unknowingly to the cowboy I had already revealed my exceptional work to my supervisors so his subsequent claims and pretences of having found things out have been met quietly with the contempt which they deserve.

If your work was that good why did you need to highlight it?

[Old Greg]

But I enjoy purging evil and wrongdoing from my environments.

I suspect a grudge. I can respect that; I'm a vindictive man. What you do is get a friend you trust to go to an Internet café and set up an anonymous email account and email you allegations and evidence to all relevant parties. Then keep quiet about it.

Or just get on with life knowing that you are the better man. I know what I'd do.

[MarillionFan]

I suspect a grudge. I can respect that; I'm a vindictive man. What you do is get a friend you trust to go to an Internet café and set up an anonymous email account and email you allegations and evidence to all relevant parties. Then keep quiet about it.

Or just get on with life knowing that you are the better man. I know what I'd do.

Or realise the OP is a troll and ask him to postmin General where we can provide the help he needs.

[craig1]

Cowboy contractors are far more visible than cowboy employees and far more likely to be given their stetson back and told to mosey off. Leave it to the permie managers to do their job.

If you're a good contractor, your reputation will keep you in work. If you're a cowboy or bluffer then you'll be starting like a newbie contractor every time because you can't fall back on your rep to keep you busy.

[pmeswani]

Tsk! they are all the same

The same can be said about Agents....

[pmeswani]

As I don't know what you do for a living, I would suggest at the next project meeting nominating the cowboy to do a piece of work that (s)he claims can do blindfolded and sit back and wait to see what happens.

[russell]

I'm just interested in how you'd deal with a contractor you worked with who you had huge suspicions was there on the basis of a false cv. It's obvious when it happens.

If I grassed up every contractor I worked with on suspicions that they "sexed up" their CV, my real life rep would match my CUK one.

Any contractor worth their salt will have exaggerated on their CV, then spent many hours cramming on a skill, then you get in and learn on the job, then it becomes a real skill.

[pmeswani]

If I grassed up every contractor I worked with on suspicions that they "sexed up" their CV, my real life rep would match my CUK one.

Any contractor worth their salt will have exaggerated on their CV, then spent many hours cramming on a skill, then you get in and learn on the job, then it becomes a real skill.

Well, I can only hope that our paths will never cross. As far as i am concerned, your CUK and real life rep is no different. One of the reasons why I left my last contract was because the contractor I was working with was sh*te and was an insult to the technical community.