What kind of worker are you?

[gingerjedi]

I'm a hero and more than worth my rate IMHO, I find others are more than willing to palm off extra work my way.

WHS^

I make sure I'm good value for the money.

Funny how the permies (who palm off work and are constantly on the sick) think contractors are expensive... the figures speak for themselves.

[oscarose]

Neither an ‘arm folder’ or ‘project hero’.
Get the job done, build relationships and don’t piss off permies.

[scooterscot]

I'm the doorman, the salesman, the analyst, the packager, the delivery boy, I'm the freelancer.

[BlasterBates]

I am definitely an "arm folder", off at 5 pm sharp. Won't touch anything outside my "jurisdiction" unless I'm forced to. Staying late needs to be approved by at least two layers of managers. I find "project heros" create a lot of problems disturbing the gentle pond like surface of a well run project. A good project team sits there with dour expressions, an air of reluctant co-operation, pessimistic estimates, and a constant murmuring that most things are really quite impossible.

[Churchill]

Are you the 'arms folded' type where you 'have done your bit' and it's 'somebody elses problem' and the 'arse covering email' is in the sent items folder. Or do you muck in and help out where you can?

I don't work well with arm folders. They irritate the tulipe out of me. (Contract and perm). Then again I have a tendancy to over extend, find myself then spread way too thin and on the brink of needing rubber sheets, (while the arm folders point and laugh).

So, are you worth your day rate as project hero? Or an arm folder?

I'm so MoneySupermarket!

[Freamon]

I am definitely an "arm folder", off at 5 pm sharp. Won't touch anything outside my "jurisdiction" unless I'm forced to. Staying late needs to be approved by at least two layers of managers. I find "project heros" create a lot of problems disturbing the gentle pond like surface of a well run project. A good project team sits there with dour expressions, an air of reluctant co-operation, pessimistic estimates, and a constant murmuring that most things are really quite impossible.

I'm sure everyone agrees you do a reasonable job while you're there, but this is a good way not to be asked back again. Nobody is going to seek you out to solve their most difficult problems.

[Zippy]

Me and the QA manager at the last project progress meeting

[shaunbhoy]

Superhero. I wear my underpants on the outside.

Yeah, we know.

[bobspud]

I have only ever worked by rolling my sleeves up and getting the job done. However having had to undo several well meant gestures, I would say sometimes I would rather have an arm folder on my team than someone that does not know their own limits.

[Spacecadet]

Most of the time I get stuck in and generally over deliver and offer my services outside of the original project scope.

For various reasons I've not done that on my current gig though.