Your boss no longers accepts this idle excuse

[pkfox]

I've never worked under those conditions - I was given a task and I completed it - I also never had a boss - I work with people, not for them

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

[raddevus]

pkfox wrote:

I work with people, not for them

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[dandy72]

I kinda have to agree here. If you were hired, and can get fired, you're working for whoever signs your paycheck, not with.

[Sander Rossel]

11917640 Member wrote:

Additionally, AI will never close or downvote your question, or mark it as duplicate.

Which proves it's nowhere near human intelligence yet ;p

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[pkfox]

It may be different in the US

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

[pkfox]

Yes, have done for the last 40 years

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

[dandy72]

Shouldn't your parents be retired by now? :-p

[pkfox]

What has this got to do with my parents ( who are both dead ) ?

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

[DerekT P]

Succinctly put. I switched for working "for" someone to "with" someone when I went freelance. I felt far more in partnership with my clients, and more invested in their businesses, than I ever did as an employee. I got the feeling though that my approach was not what most were used to when working with freelancers... Also at no point in my career would I ever have even hinted that I'd used SO or any online equivalent. If I didn't know how to do something (which happened quite often) I'd acknowledge it, then use the manuals to find the answer. (And if it was something that my client could reasonably have expected me to know, I wouldn't charge for that time, either. Employers expect to pay for training, clients don't.)

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[pkfox]

Pretty much mirrors my approach Derek - I was only ever directly employed by a software house once - I lasted a month and hated it - the rest of my time I was freelance using my limited company as a a payment vehicle.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

[dandy72]

It was a bad joke. The idea was that if you've been working "with" people rather than "for" people for 40 years is that, all along, your employer must've been mom and dad.