finished my last contract at the end of March. i was doing a server patching project for the European offices and there was someone else doing the same in north america.
for the year i was there, i managed to get all the European servers done, and automated it all as well. after all, it would be stupid to not automate and schedule this type of task.
i found that the 2 people in the north america office were reluctant to put in any sort of schedule or automation. it was obvious that they were deliberately doing it slowly and manually just to extend their contracts. anyways, i finished up the european servers and once that was done, they did not need me any longer and my contract finished. that is fine. i am not going to deliberately work slowly just to string out the project in the hope of doing mind numbingly boring work for another year. the 2 people in the north america stayed and got contract renewals. Europe patching was a slick process able to managed by their regular support guys, needing maybe 15 hours a week of working time. North America still needs 2 full time people to do the same job (80hours/week).
this week i started a new contract. its a windows server migration. there is a guy there who has been on the project for a year and over the last week he has been showing me what to do. its blindingly obvious that he is deliberately going slowly. i was watching him work this week and he seemed to be doing everything so slowly. shit!, not this again.
if i am honest, i dont like working. i dont like going to work on the train every morning. i dont like moving jobs once or twice a year. i dont actually work very hard. but fuck me, these people are taking it to a new level. it must be a real effort to work that slowly. its easier to just do the work, than to string it out needlessly for that long. i can see why they have brought in another contractor in.
given the rate at which this guy is working, the sun will have expanded and consumed the earth by the time they get the servers migrated over. humankind will be floating through space looking for new habitable planets and galaxies by then, and they cant take the risk that they will still be running windows 2008 then, to do so. hence i got the call.
for the year i was there, i managed to get all the European servers done, and automated it all as well. after all, it would be stupid to not automate and schedule this type of task.
i found that the 2 people in the north america office were reluctant to put in any sort of schedule or automation. it was obvious that they were deliberately doing it slowly and manually just to extend their contracts. anyways, i finished up the european servers and once that was done, they did not need me any longer and my contract finished. that is fine. i am not going to deliberately work slowly just to string out the project in the hope of doing mind numbingly boring work for another year. the 2 people in the north america stayed and got contract renewals. Europe patching was a slick process able to managed by their regular support guys, needing maybe 15 hours a week of working time. North America still needs 2 full time people to do the same job (80hours/week).
this week i started a new contract. its a windows server migration. there is a guy there who has been on the project for a year and over the last week he has been showing me what to do. its blindingly obvious that he is deliberately going slowly. i was watching him work this week and he seemed to be doing everything so slowly. shit!, not this again.
if i am honest, i dont like working. i dont like going to work on the train every morning. i dont like moving jobs once or twice a year. i dont actually work very hard. but fuck me, these people are taking it to a new level. it must be a real effort to work that slowly. its easier to just do the work, than to string it out needlessly for that long. i can see why they have brought in another contractor in.
given the rate at which this guy is working, the sun will have expanded and consumed the earth by the time they get the servers migrated over. humankind will be floating through space looking for new habitable planets and galaxies by then, and they cant take the risk that they will still be running windows 2008 then, to do so. hence i got the call.
