Contractor envy

[darrenb]

I am going to suggest that about 10 percent of permies have issues with working with contractors, depending on the gig, the client and the role it varies but 10 percent would be a software industry standard amount I would say.

90% here.

Sometimes the 10% can seem like 90% because they're the loudest 10%.

But yeah I've been 90% environments too. Mind you, only in the UK. It's culturally accepted in the UK where it wouldn't be in most countries.

My approach is to up my rate before starting if I anticipate any aggro.

[darrenb]

Current project is about 80% contractor and the permies are quite happy to have us here doing all their work 'cos It means they can continue surfing the net all day. Which is nice

Sounds ideal. Maybe companies should specifically hire some permies to surf the net in order to help the contractors get on with it.

Hang on, they already do... it's called the marketing department....

[d000hg]

You mean you don't

Makes sense actually

I do but I WFH.

[minestrone]

Don't think I can take clientCo much more, "can you check the logs on this app, user login issues?"

2 mins later

"ehmm, logs are filled with mail send exception messages, looks like the app was designed to send messages to emails and not log into log files, the email adresses are incorrect and caused the log email to not be sent"

"so you do not know what the problems are?"

"no"

"can you check the logs then and see what the problems are"

[suityou01]

Don't think I can take clientCo much more, "can you check the logs on this app, user login issues?"

2 mins later

"ehmm, logs are filled with mail send exception messages, looks like the app was designed to send messages to emails and not log into log files, the email adresses are incorrect and caused the log email to not be sent"

"so you do not know what the problems are?"

"no"

"can you check the logs then and see what the problems are"

Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

[Moscow Mule]

Don't think I can take clientCo much more, "can you check the logs on this app, user login issues?"

2 mins later

"ehmm, logs are filled with mail send exception messages, looks like the app was designed to send messages to emails and not log into log files, the email adresses are incorrect and caused the log email to not be sent"

"so you do not know what the problems are?"

"no"

"can you check the logs then and see what the problems are"

You know exactly what the problem is: tulip code.

[minestrone]

You know exactly what the problem is: tulip code.

Spot on.

Anemic domain model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pile of turd held up to be genius by the managers.

[minestrone]

Coupled with the...

The Inner-Platform Effect - The Daily WTF

A joy to work on.

[BillHicksRIP]

I'm trying to live my contractor life under the motto, "Do your homework, know your stuff and blow every permie out of the water. Risk vs reward".