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
Ho hum, it's only cost them about £100k
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Perfect - I love projects like that.Originally posted by moorfield View PostFound 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
You do the work, get paid, but never ever have to support it or worry how things'll be once it goes into production!
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Don't be mad, it's their money not yours ( well it is yours now ).Originally posted by moorfield View PostFound 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
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.Comment
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Ho hum, you obviously made some money out of it though.
I hope you've kept the source code.And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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I worked on a merger of two systems after two companies merged. Six month later, they split and so there was another project to split the systems.Originally posted by Platypus View PostPerfect - I love projects like that.
You do the work, get paid, but never ever have to support it or worry how things'll be once it goes into production!
Celebrate"A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George OrwellComment
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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.Originally posted by moorfield View PostFound 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
And I guess even that is small fry.I couldn't give two fornicators! Yes, really!
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It's happened to me before. I used to care.And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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Yeap - then you will be back a fews years later to start it all over again..don't think what its cost client co - just think of what you have invoicedOriginally posted by moorfield View PostFound 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
Just call me Matron - Too many handbagsComment
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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."Comment
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Got that all the time at one of my previous contracts.
Spent 6 months working on stuff only to be asked why I hadn't been told by my line manager that that part of the project had been canned
You gotta love communication or the lack thereof.Comment
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