Poll: Contrator Morals

[Spacecadet]

You have written a piece of software which allows you to compress a months worth of work down to at most 2 days. The end result looking to the client as if it's been hand crafted. Do you:

[minestrone]

Edit, got the wrong end of the stick

Tell them you can do it in 15 days, slack off and look good.

[Pondlife]

Spend the next 3 weeks perfecting it at your own pace. Therefore delivering a week early but knowing that it will work perfectly.

[Mich the Tester]

You have written a piece of software which allows you to compress a months worth of work down to at most 2 days. The end result looking to the client as if it's been hand crafted. Do you:

Crap question; a real contractor downloads a piece of software allowing one to 'compress a months worth of work down to at most 2 days', then invoices for the full month.

[Spacecadet]

Crap question; a real contractor downloads a piece of software allowing one to 'compress a months worth of work down to at most 2 days', then invoices for the full month.

thats why one of the answers is:
"Slack of[sic] for the full month and deliver on time "

[cojak]

Shouldn't the Poll be for Contrator Spelling?

Or Contrator Stiky Keyboards?

What have you been doing while working at your laptop??

[shaunbhoy]

Crap question; a real contractor downloads a piece of software allowing one to 'compress a months worth of work down to at most 2 days', then invoices for the full month.

And a "real contractor" HAS no morals!

[Spacecadet]

Shouldn't the Poll be for Contrator Spelling?

Or Contrator Stiky Keyboards?

What have you been doing while working at your laptop??

On client machine with a keyboard which I'm not used to and having to use IE with no spell check

[Arturo Bassick]

You have written this?
If that is the case then you should do a projection of how much money the company will save over the next 10 years by purchasing the very reasonably priced piece of proprietary software.
Suitable price being 1 years worth of savings + maintenance contract or 2.5 years including source.
Otherwise keep doing it by hand and billing for the month.

[MarillionFan]

I have tools that I have developed that i use presently.

The use of these tools reduce prototyping and unit testing from 15 days down to 3. I still quote 15 days in the project plans I implement. That's because I own them and not the
client, so if someone else does the
work then it takes 15 days.

What is allows me to do though is save time in plan to
account for issues elsewhere. So far at clientco every project I have worked on has been delivered on time. Every other
project they do is late.

(on that basis when I delivered last week against the odds I was told to expect to be around all next year as well)