Tulip gig - coping mechanisms

[d000hg]

It's a subjective measure, I don't have direct supervision at all. What I meant by that was I can get through an amount of work in half a day that the client percieves to need a day to do. I was expressing (perhaps badly) that the actual work is easy/not challenging.

Isn't the reason they're paying you several hundred pounds a day that you CAN work much faster than they're used to? I do know what you mean, just playing devil's advocate, but while I'd feel OK learning some new tech I wouldn't be comfortable being paid to work on something for a different client (me).

[original PM]

The Somalians!

Just in case you meet a pirate!

SOMALI
Somali Handbook (Dunwoody Press, 1992) (supplied by Mark Wise)
Do you have any valuables?
Wax qiimo leh ma sidataa?

Do not be afraid
Ha baqin

I won't hurt you
Waxba kuu dhimi mayo

Put your hands over your head!
Gacmaha madaxa saar!

Are the snakes here dangerous?
Masaska halkaan khatar miyaa?

I must operate on you
Waa inaan ku qalaa

We must bury her
Waa inaan duugnaa isaga

[Damon]

Isn't the reason they're paying you several hundred pounds a day that you CAN work much faster than they're used to? I do know what you mean, just playing devil's advocate, but while I'd feel OK learning some new tech I wouldn't be comfortable being paid to work on something for a different client (me).

Agreed, I wouldn't really sit here doing work for myself.....but then maybe I shouldn't be posting on here during their time either!!!!!

[Old Greg]

Isn't the reason they're paying you several hundred pounds a day that you CAN work much faster than they're used to? I do know what you mean, just playing devil's advocate, but while I'd feel OK learning some new tech I wouldn't be comfortable being paid to work on something for a different client (me).

I'd be pretty pissed off if my builder did the day's planned work in half a day and then knocked off home to work on his own home while I was paying fro a full day. I'd hope he'd get on with the next day's work or let me know he was at a loose end.

[d000hg]

If it was fixed-payment work then it would be different of course.

[vetran]

Hey, Admin, you must have some tips for how to cope with a dreadful gig.

Delegate to the Mods and go to the Pub?

Actually I wrote / modified a program that fixed the majority of their issues then went down the pub with the others for 2 hour lunches.

Looked for a way to fix other issues using the most exciting solution I could find.

Spent too much time on CUK.

[fullyautomatix]

If I know the gig is a car crash in slow motion I quickly take charge and put as much effort as possible to get it back on track. This ensures that i become indispensable to the gig.

[suityou01]

If I know the gig is a car crash in slow motion I quickly take charge and put as much effort as possible to get it back on track. This ensures that i become indispensable to the gig.

This is me currently.

[EternalOptimist]

I sometimes write games into the code. Some games that worked well were
Ultima - a two player chess variation
Pharm-opoly - a variation on monopoly
BinLaden - a single player cave clearing op in MSaccess


currently working on Robo wars, but I cant get fruit machine wheels to work properly. too much flicker

[Old Greg]

This is me currently.

Suity, just because someone can't wriggle out of concrete boots, doesn't make them indispensable.