Reply to: Contractor ethics

[Mich the Tester]

Day one: Turned up and the client was the usual disorganised shower of .... Played minesweeper for a few hours and then went home. That was the easiest £500 ever. Ker-ching!

Personally, when I turn up and discover that ClientCo is a disorganised pile of shytte, I always make a conscientious attempt to help get things organised and make things more effective and efficient. If this attempt succeeds, which it sometimes does, I then play as full a role as possible in helping ClientCo to do things well. If that attempt doesn’t succeed I then conclude that ClientCo is incapable of learning and resort to the practice described in Pondlife’s post.

They pay me for my expertise, so if they want their money's worth they should bloody well use my expertise.

[norrahe]

Don't talk about contractor ethics.

IGMC....

Is the third rule no smoking?

[BrilloPad]

What's the second rule?

Don't talk about contractor ethics.

IGMC....

[norrahe]

What's the second rule?

[pmeswani]

Do as little as possible for as much as possible.

Damn... I've been found out.

[Ruprect]

First rule of contractor ethics...

Don't talk about contractor ethics.

Do as little as possible for as much as possible.

[Ruprect]

Luxury! On my first day I would work twenty-nine hours, and pay t'pimp for permission start t'contract, and when I got home, t'pimp would kill us, and dance about on us grave singing "Hallelujah."

You are Mich the Tester and I claim my crisp 5 euros

[Andy2]

ethics ?
nah never had those

[FSM with Cheddar]

First rule of contractor ethics...

Don't talk about contractor ethics.

[zara_backdog]

I'm a contractor and I'm currently working in ethics, is this about me?

Never mind - someone has I suppose.

[oracleslave]

I'm a contractor and I'm currently working in ethics, is this about me?

Nah, the thread about the girl from essex is here

[Pogle]

I'm a contractor and I'm currently working in ethics, is this about me?

[bobhope]

He's really 31 already? I thought he was much younger than that. How time files.

[Drewster]

There is nothing wrong with a tasteful cartoon character

Or to be fair a totally tasteless cartoon character.............

[suityou01]

found this gem
http://www.nedprod.com/programs/definition.html

The economics of software production mean that the cheapest workers in the world are most likely to do the job as the internet makes remote production very easy. Thus, the economics of software production are a concentrated form of globalisation.

the number of gigs I have had rewriting stuff that had been offshored.