Reply to: Can I earn 20K A Month As IT Contractor?

[northernladuk]

Didn't everyone on a 30 day billing cycle get paid over 20k this month??

[stek]

COBOL bill puts up his hand

I got an exception !!!

Needs to improve his error handling then......

[tarbera]

Good for him. Does "10 days unpaid" mean 10 days of work they won't pay for, or 10 days off site not working?

10 days (chosen randomly by someone I've yet to figure out who, and no idea of or projects or delivery schedule, or impacts) holiday with no pay

[Chuck]

So management told all the contractors 10%cut + 10days unpaid was across the board no exceptions for anyone in IT, take it or leave it, NO EXCEPTIONS. !!!

COBOL bill puts up his hand

I got an exception !!!

10 minutes of anarchy follows, Bill gives me the lunchtime beer secret signal - we leave, hopefully cammed down a bit on our return

Good for him. Does "10 days unpaid" mean 10 days of work they won't pay for, or 10 days off site not working?

[tarbera]

So management told all the contractors 10%cut + 10days unpaid was across the board no exceptions for anyone in IT, take it or leave it, NO EXCEPTIONS. !!!

COBOL bill puts up his hand

I got an exception !!!

10 minutes of anarchy follows, Bill gives me the lunchtime beer secret signal - we leave, hopefully cammed down a bit on our return

[FatLazyContractor]

I liked COBOL*, but I really liked CICS/COBOL.

(*PL/1 was ok but more fiddly).

I was a better maintenance coder than a developer though, I could spot a bug a mile off, but my clean-cut code wasn't the best.

Your camouflage with a lollipop suggests you are too young to have heard of COBOL lass

[cojak]

I liked COBOL*, but I really liked CICS/COBOL.

(*PL/1 was ok but more fiddly).

I was a better maintenance coder than a developer though, I could spot a bug a mile off, but my clean-cut code wasn't the best.

[diseasex]

I think the trick is to build something that is both mission critical and un-maintainable

pay me maintenance fee of 1200 daily or your business is focked ;D i love the spirit.
Or simply give compiled dlls without a source. Serves the same purpose

[jamesbrown]

Fack me I should have learned COBOL

I think the trick is to build something that is both mission critical and un-maintainable

[Pherlopolus]

my memories of learning cobol were that you had to be really good at typing, and have good eyes for missing full stops on code printouts.

Too old for that now...

[diseasex]

Fack me I should have learned COBOL

and whats stopping you now ?

[NibblyPig]

Fack me I should have learned COBOL

[diseasex]

We pay a cobol programmer £1200 a day every day, to basically mock the agile guys and pair programming

The bank got rid of him 18 months ago and replaced with Indians (3 week handover , he wrote the system and supported for 22 years) but no, 3 week handover was appropriate

All is well until system has issues and Indians feck up and cost millions

Old man fixes in 10 mins after he stops laughing on the phone

Bank now to scared to replace,he now comes into the office every day and reads his book

And yes he will be reading this thread and laughing tomorrow

thats actually great story to tell to negotiate better rate =) take me or it will cost you MILLIONSSSS

[NotAllThere]

...

And yes he will be reading this thread and laughing tomorrow

And all the contractors bowed before him chanting "we are not worthy".

[tarbera]

Can I earn 20K A Month As IT Contractor?

We pay a cobol programmer £1200 a day every day, to basically mock the agile guys and pair programming

The bank got rid of him 18 months ago and replaced with Indians (3 week handover , he wrote the system and supported for 22 years) but no, 3 week handover was appropriate

All is well until system has issues and Indians feck up and cost millions

Old man fixes in 10 mins after he stops laughing on the phone

Bank now to scared to replace,he now comes into the office every day and reads his book

And yes he will be reading this thread and laughing tomorrow