Are Contractors guarded anal coonts?

[NumptyCorner]

This is a extract from a ad on jobserve working in a Government dept.

Experience of ...... would also be beneficial as would the personality to pass your knowledge to permanent members of the team.


This implies contactors are guarded anal coonts.

[sasguru]

Begs the question

It also implies permies are a bunch of useless lazy gits who don't have the initiative to learn anything themselves.

[fiddleabout]

Not quite. I would suggest that the personality required to pass on any skills beyond the ability to spend 2 hours making coffee to permies is that of a primary school teacher.

Mr SAS you posted while I was crafting my own response...

It also implies permies are a bunch of useless lazy gits who don't have the initiative to learn anything themselves.

There is no need to imply this - it's a given.

[trajectory]

anal coonts

Bit of a contradiction in terms there, no?

[WageSlave1]

This implies contactors are guarded anal coonts

Teaching Civil Servants is like teaching a monkey to play the banjo.

[threaded]

NumptyCorner: Done several contracts like that. Often asked to give my lecture on the use of Zen in systems development.

threaded in "be 1 with the 0" mode.

[DimPrawn]

Which was nice.

[widgetdance]

This implies contactors are guarded anal coonts

It implies that the company is too tight to pay for its staff to be properly trained and wants to leech off me.

[planetit]

No, it implies they want you to train their staff. If you don't want to do it, don't take the job. At least they are being up front about it.

[DimPrawn]

Are Contractors guarded anal coonts?

@#%$ off, I'm not telling you for free.