Mates rates

[MarillionFan]

Been asked to do something on my present contract that I have absolutely no idea how to do it. So I said, yes, no problem. The reason, I may not know how to do it, but another contractor mate I know does.

Two days work (all evening based) & he's given me a discount on his day rate. Still got to pay him £1000.

How generous.

[SimonMac]

Been asked to do something on my present contract that I have absolutely no idea how to do it. So I said, yes, no problem. The reason, I may not know how to do it, but another contractor mate I know does.

Two days work (all evening based) & he's given me a discount on his day rate. Still got to pay him £1000.

How generous.

You have mates?

[FiveTimes]

You have mates?

he classes all the people on rent a coder as friends

[aussielong]

Been asked to do something on my present contract that I have absolutely no idea how to do it. So I said, yes, no problem. The reason, I may not know how to do it, but another contractor mate I know does.

Two days work (all evening based) & he's given me a discount on his day rate. Still got to pay him £1000.

How generous.

If I was him I wouldn't even have accepted it. Don't mix mates with paid work, you can easily lose mates that way.

I mean, what if he works hard but does a bad job. Are you going to withhold the money?

[d000hg]

Been asked to do something on my present contract that I have absolutely no idea how to do it.

How is that different from normal?

[MarillionFan]

How is that different from normal?

I didn't fancy blagging this one.

[d000hg]

Can you outsource it to SY01?

[MarillionFan]

Can you outsource it to SY01?

It's only two days work. I need to have a brief chat with someone as opposed to providing a 200 page requirements document, have him set up an offshore team, teach them how to do basic Oracle views, wait for him to question said requirements, have him produce a risk analysis of why the requirements are to vague, watch him post on CUK about how the requirements and offshore are crap and how he's told me the client that it's doomed to fail, see him go off ill for two weeks, before coming back asking for a renewal & pay increase, posting on CUK how I gave him a renewal & pay increase when in fact I terminated him, have him sob outside my house for a week, before flouncing and returning 3 months later as if nothing had happened.

I'll pass thanks.

[d000hg]

Out of interest what is this work - you could have got it for less on CUK

[MarillionFan]

Out of interest what is this work - you could have got it for less on CUK

Probably. It's actually only setting up a SQL Server Enterprise VM etc but it's getting it to interact with something in the cloud & deal with the IT procurement team who don't have any DBA resource whatsoever. My colleague in the US who was doing it as resigned, is leaving today, I'm trying to go on vacation today & then out in the US for another two and this needs to be sorted in the next two weeks.

He's in charge of 30 DBAs for a major company, so needless to say he's going to charge me, but least I know him, trust him and it will get done.