Things I Hate about Contracting

[RSoles]

Every contract I have done, I always come across some little officious permie troll who does a small but critical role and who make your life hell over the smallest of requests. Drives me insane, especially as they are always people who have done the role for years, are very ‘comfortable’ in the role and always send emails that copy in every man and there dog when they send the latest put down.

Agreed, they're the ones who've built themselves a little nest of a comfort zone and are just waiting for retirement, can't take a risk, do something new, oh no.

Other than that, it has to be the Monday morning at the airport - serves me right for living in the sticks I suppose.....

[norrahe]

Working for companies with no idea of how to run, resource or finance projects.

[Mich the Tester]

Working for companies with no idea of how to run, resource or finance projects.

That's the whole point of contracting! (it seems, from where I'm sitting)

[MarillionFan]

Spot on with that one, the PM we just had got his contract terminated early as he was so indecisive and had no interest on what was going on

Working for companies with no idea of how to run, resource or finance projects.

I have spent all morning picking up the results of the tulipe resource planning presently in place at clientco. The dev director is off on paternity and the support director has changed the priorities over the last two weeks. So basically the project the support director was supporting has gone live after overrunning. The overrun has pushed out all of the phases on the other projects to past the 24th, that means they move in to Jan into something else. The twats had taken a month to decide to resource to whit I had already got them two contractors to do the work. They decided against it!

Had to explain to three clients(all of whom have paid for work) that their projects will now move out a month minimum, to whit in turn pushes out UAT, deployment, training and their good will.

In addition, have three more clients lined up to whit I am instructed not to give them any indication of level of effort, timescale or costs and all are champing at the bit to engage. Estimated costs £70k, £50k and £250k BI projects.

And all due to a constraint on ETL resource only!!!!

[Notascooby]

Being told the project are looking for someone to work with no supervision, ability to use their initiative, self-starter, hit the ground running etc, etc then having to run EVRYTHING through a Project / Programme manager before you do anything.

Along with the "why didn't you CC me into that email" mentality.

[eek]

Discovering the BPM expert claims to know oracle and can solve all the problems the offshore bobs are trying to fix.

[doodab]

Having to use crappy client co computers. I always prefer to avoid that when I can.

[norrahe]

That's the whole point of contracting! (it seems, from where I'm sitting)

Doesn't help when they put down rules preventing you from doing your job correctly.

I'm apparently running a project whereby I haven't been allowed to get in external resources as there are no internal people available to carry out the work and no contingency is allowed on a project.

I'm apparently supposed to utilise non existent internal people. So in effect I'm the only resource on my project

The sooner I can get outta dodge the better.

[Spacecadet]

Having to use crappy client co computers. I always prefer to avoid that when I can.

Usually supplied with the smallest and cheapest monitor on the market and a mouse that was personally Q.C'd by Michael J Fox

[Spacecadet]

I'm apparently supposed to utilise non existent internal people. So in effect I'm the only resource on my project

SuitYou can help on x00% utilisation (where x is an integer > 0)