Reply to: 6 months of work thrown away

[BenchMaster]

It's all gone chapel hat pegs up.

In all my career - working for blue chip clients and sitting on my backside warming the bench - i have only come across one colleague who used that phrase - you are ****** ******* and i claim my five pounds. :-)

[Zippy]

It's all gone wrong. They get Bob in. It all goes chapel hat pegs up. You get invited back to fix it.
Kerrrching, shirley??

[norrahe]

‘Why haven’t you been told that ….?’

Think for a moment about that question. What kind of imbecile would ask a question like that?

I wasn't that worried, they ran out of work for me to do and I spent 6 weeks working from home despite asking for summat to do.

I didn't mind billing for that

[Grinder]

Found out today that last 6 months of my work is being canned by clientco due to a forthcoming merger.

Ho hum, it's only cost them about £100k

I wish I got your day-rate. sheesh!

[Mich the Tester]

A programme manager?

Well he’d have to be quite senior around here to say something as vacuous as that.

[Moscow Mule]

‘Why haven’t you been told that ….?’

Think for a moment about that question. What kind of imbecile would ask a question like that?

A programme manager?

[Mich the Tester]

Got that all the time at one of my previous contracts.

Spent 6 months working on stuff only to be asked why I hadn't been told by my line manager that that part of the project had been canned

You gotta love communication or the lack thereof.

‘Why haven’t you been told that ….?’

Think for a moment about that question. What kind of imbecile would ask a question like that?

[norrahe]

Got that all the time at one of my previous contracts.

Spent 6 months working on stuff only to be asked why I hadn't been told by my line manager that that part of the project had been canned

You gotta love communication or the lack thereof.

[Moscow Mule]

I can name a bank that might have recently merged with another bank who threw away about £2-3M quids worth of software & hardware, not to mention the consultancy costs to put it in in the first place.

That was only 9 months of my life, and I'd left by the time they did it but still a massive waste...

[zara_backdog]

Found out today that last 6 months of my work is being canned by clientco due to a forthcoming merger.

Ho hum, it's only cost them about £100k

Yeap - then you will be back a fews years later to start it all over again..don't think what its cost client co - just think of what you have invoiced

[Mich the Tester]

It's happened to me before. I used to care.

[BolshieBastard]

Found out today that last 6 months of my work is being canned by clientco due to a forthcoming merger.

Ho hum, it's only cost them about £100k

That's peanuts! I was working for a utility co in the north east back in 2000, they binned my project 4 weeks from the end (they'd just asked me to extend 4 weeks) which had cost them half a mill. No kidding.

And I guess even that is small fry.

[Paddy]

Perfect - I love projects like that.

You do the work, get paid, but never ever have to support it or worry how things'll be once it goes into production!

Celebrate

I worked on a merger of two systems after two companies merged. Six month later, they split and so there was another project to split the systems.

[Mich the Tester]

Ho hum, you obviously made some money out of it though.

I hope you've kept the source code.

[DaveB]

Found out today that last 6 months of my work is being canned by clientco due to a forthcoming merger.

Ho hum, it's only cost them about £100k

Don't be mad, it's their money not yours ( well it is yours now ).

Besides, there is a better than even chance that after the merger and associated management reshuffles your new client co manager will come up with a bright idea for some developement that you can help them with...

And if he doesnt then you really need to work on your devious, underhanded manipulation of others skills.