The consultant and the beenie
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If they are the same folk I came across (or clones thereof) they actually were quite brilliant. Unfortunately the report they ended up producing essentially suggested hiring them (or another batch from the same company) to implement their recommendations. Having spent thousands on getting a report telling them that tens of thousands needed to be spent, the usual happened. I got told to do it in a week.
MVVM # - I did it My Way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
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Oh god - it's them!
MVVM # - I did it My Way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
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In this company we are only ever positive. I will tell anyone who wants to listen how brilliant these guys are and how brilliant our manager is for getting them in here.
Right there. That's your problem! Get realistic and join the real world. :-\ I will send you the bill for my services and you don't even have to look at my 'beenie'. :-D Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Right there. That's your problem! Get realistic and join the real world. :-\ I will send you the bill for my services and you don't even have to look at my 'beenie'. :-D Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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My boss, in his infinite wisdom, has paid a fortune to get two consultants (from the consulting company he worked for before joining us) in for a month to look at our build process. They are very young and VERY cool. One even wears a beanie all day in the office. I've bitten my tongue and not asked if he's feeling cold. I'm calling them the 'Build Bobs'.
Reminds me of the time my MD brought in a chum from his previous company after I had estimated 3 months for delivery of a web site, interacting with a (large) customer's existing site, invisibly, taking part credit card payments and providing all sorts of tricky functionality. His chum took a quick look at what was required and told him he could do it in less than three weeks. It took nearly four months. He wrote it in VB (not .Net, VB) with an Access database, with no thoughts on how to scale up, any interaction with existing systems at either end etc. etc. Then he put it live without any sort of testing on an actual web server. He then worked on it for another couple of months (mostly off line, but sometimes hacking the live Access database while punters out there were using the site to purchase. EVERYTHING was hard-coded. So any time any tiny thing needed to be changed, his consultant came in for a day (plus travel and accommodation expenses) to change it. For some reason, when I queried the MD on the financial benefit of this situation, he asked me to leave his office!
MVVM # - I did it My Way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
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My boss, in his infinite wisdom, has paid a fortune to get two consultants (from the consulting company he worked for before joining us) in for a month to look at our build process. They are very young and VERY cool. One even wears a beanie all day in the office. I've bitten my tongue and not asked if he's feeling cold. I'm calling them the 'Build Bobs'.
I had a boss in years gone by who wore a propeller beenie when he didn't want to be disturbed. I had a pirate flag that went on top of my monitor for a similar purpose.
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol "Nagy, you have won the internets." - Keith Barrow
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My boss, in his infinite wisdom, has paid a fortune to get two consultants (from the consulting company he worked for before joining us) in for a month to look at our build process. They are very young and VERY cool. One even wears a beanie all day in the office. I've bitten my tongue and not asked if he's feeling cold. I'm calling them the 'Build Bobs'.
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In this company we are only ever positive. I will tell anyone who wants to listen how brilliant these guys are and how brilliant our manager is for getting them in here.
_Josh_ wrote:
In this company we are only ever positive.
Got an opening for me?
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I also wear a beanie the whole day, withoutit I feel naked. I also slept wearing a beanie. I over 50, most given as presents, I am in love with them...
I remain joe!
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My boss, in his infinite wisdom, has paid a fortune to get two consultants (from the consulting company he worked for before joining us) in for a month to look at our build process. They are very young and VERY cool. One even wears a beanie all day in the office. I've bitten my tongue and not asked if he's feeling cold. I'm calling them the 'Build Bobs'.
_Josh_ wrote:
has paid a fortune to get two consultants (from the consulting company he worked for before joining us) in for a month to look at our build process.
Err..what the h*ll could be so messed up with your build process that it would require a solution like that?
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_Josh_ wrote:
has paid a fortune to get two consultants (from the consulting company he worked for before joining us) in for a month to look at our build process.
Err..what the h*ll could be so messed up with your build process that it would require a solution like that?
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Nothing that i am aware of. Building is automated and can always be reproduced, we get emailed the results and have a standard dev machine image so we know everyone is using tha same set of libraries and tools.