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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.
"Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.
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.
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...
"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."
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