Wow... what a tremendous use of talent

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Why do you really need both?

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After reading all of these posts on "The Joys of Hired Consultants" there seems to be a common thread in most of them... There was an accepted 'start of work' without having a set of firm, signed off, requirements. If all parties read and agree to the terms of the requirements and signs them, thereby accepting responsibility (meaning 'not right' = 'no pay'), I believe that things may be looked at in a little different light from both the contractor's and the company hiring the contractor's perspective. I also agree that there are a LOT of contractors who do sub par work, but then again, whose fault is that? What limitations or restrictions are imposed for shoddy or sub par or not finished work? I know when I was running construction projects, I always paid out material costs up front, then required 50% of the work completed before 50% of the 'labor' pay was given out. It always amazes me how much better people do when they know they will NOT get paid for their 'crappy' work. In addition, I always put in a clause that said, if done 10% early (again adhering to the same quality standards) there would be a 10% bonus... or some other incentive for hustling ~and~ doing a good job. And what about the contractor that just gets the job done on time, without schedule or cost overruns - they get the chance to bid on the next job. I tend to think about contracting like eating out at a restaurant- If the food was bad, I don't go back and I tell everybody about it, but I don't fault the waitress, if the food was good and the service was poor I tell the management. bad food = free meal, tip depending upon: good service = good tip bad service = no tip, tell management

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The very same reason I write CMOS passwords down and tape them to the inside of the box !

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What is the opportunity that this is for you? Every action has a positive and negative way to look at it... find the positive.

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How about not loading the entire kitchen sink when I start my app?

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You mean you are starting a business without the advice of a lawyer? (do you have an accountant ? or at least one you can consult with?) just my 2Cents.. but I have been burned on just such a clause and lawyer would have made me millions...

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MS is going to release Orcas in November 2008

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I left MS partly because of that, and partly because of how many contractors they employe (take advantage of) As far as Google is concerned... don't know... never worked at Google...!

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After just leaving MS... for greener grass, I find that what is most disconcerting is their lack of human interaction. Most of the people that I interacted with, (barring some exceptions to the rule of course) were just waiting for you to leave to get back to work and some hardly even pulled their eyes off their screen when you were talking with them...

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Average age at Microsoft is 25 ... something to think about

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