The worst ever

[ferret]

OT for the moderator - at what point do you get you posts posted directly to board without review on here?

Think it is around 10. Don't know for sure though.

[Sysman]

If only more of my contracts were the same, instead of having to deliver a finished product, leaving no reason for renewal (sigh).

The second gig once I'd gone independent was a beauty. It was bug fixing a large system, and once I proved I could do that, they simply kept on bashing out the purchase orders for 20, 30 or 60 days at a time, some of them running concurrently. That not only meant I could juggle them for invoicing/cash flow purposes, but I could fill wet weekends with work and take time off when the weather was good.

The drawback was that I was stuck with the same technology all along, but it gave me the bank balance to survive the early 90s.

[OwlHoot]

My current contract is pretty crumby. It goes something like: perpetually do a bit, wait for some other team/person to deliver something that never gets delivered. Then I do their job as well as my own just so we can progress a bit more. Then the client changes their requirements so I delete and rework what I've previously done and so on.

Then occasionally the technology the system is based on changes (has actualy happened twice in 6 months) so a good portion of everything at best needs porting or worst again binning and rewriting.

The rate is fairly good and it's work from home but you start thinking there could be something better...

Nope, nothing could be better - IT contracting wise, an endless round of rewrites is as good as it gets (and in different technologies each time too, you lucky dog!).

If only more of my contracts were the same, instead of having to deliver a finished product, leaving no reason for renewal (sigh).

[Tingles]

Mine is....

At the interview - they told me that they don't have any proper documented processes...

Get the role

They tell me to document the processes they don't have. <2 months>

They say I need to do a PID and get it agreed by the 'bigwigs' - nine versions later after numerous scope changes etc - it gets agreed <2 months>

Do the work <1 month>

Told to reformat the documents <global alignment> and on the review merry-go-round - <1 month+>

Now start an extension tomorrow......

And that's without internal audit involvement - it could run and run.....


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[TheRefactornator]

OT for the moderator - at what point do you get you posts posted directly to board without review on here?

[cykophysh39]

Thats only your current contract? I get that with nearly every contract!!

I thought that is why they brought contractors in?

I've lost count of how many times I have had to reivent the wheel, in some other platform, framework, pattern, concept.

Sit back and enjoy your daily rate, at least you don't have to commute for it. I currently have to commute an hour each way to do exactly the same thing.

[TheRefactornator]

Maybe it's just me being unconventional in a contractor domain but I do like a project to progress (eventually) to a successful completion but this one has being going pretty much nowhere for 12months.

Anyway I didn't start this thread with the intention of just having a moan and picking this one to bits...hasn't anyone got anything worse than mine?

[MB99]

Just go with it until you find something else, take the money and smile

[miffy]

I agree with DP.

Sounds like a license to print money. I'd be quite happy sailing along with that.

[DimPrawn]

My current contract is pretty crumby. It goes something like: perpetually do a bit, wait for some other team/person to deliver something that never gets delivered. Then I do their job as well as my own just so we can progress a bit more. Then the client changes their requirements so I delete and rework what I've previously done and so on.

Then occasionally the technology the system is based on changes (has actualy happened twice in 6 months) so a good portion of everything at best needs porting or worst again binning and rewriting.

The rate is fairly good and it's work from home but you start thinking there could be something better...

Doesn't sound intellectually satisfying, but from a kerrrrching point of view sounds perfect. Just relax, invoice and enjoy.

[threaded]

Sounds good to me. That is what IT is about. Just about everything you can do with a computer has already been coded so every so often someone invents a new framework and everything gets rewritten to use it...

[TheRefactornator]

My current contract is pretty crumby. It goes something like: perpetually do a bit, wait for some other team/person to deliver something that never gets delivered. Then I do their job as well as my own just so we can progress a bit more. Then the client changes their requirements so I delete and rework what I've previously done and so on.

Then occasionally the technology the system is based on changes (has actualy happened twice in 6 months) so a good portion of everything at best needs porting or worst again binning and rewriting.

The rate is fairly good and it's work from home but you start thinking there could be something better...