I have CF friends, and I have home friends, never the two shall meet. Well, cept Crit.
-----Original Message----- From: Shawna Hampton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 8:55 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: The Trouble With Hiring Friends Just speaking from personal experience as a business owner (not in terms of the "grander scheme of things" -- i.e., the federal government), I will NEVER hire a friend again. I did this once on a rush project because she offered to help out and she completely flaked on me -- insisted on coding it "her way" (instead of the way the client or I wanted it coded), completely blew the deadline, and nearly caused me to lose the client. We're not friends anymore. I think it's just better all around to keep your friends your friends and your colleagues/subordinates just that. There's a wall, if you know what I mean, or should be. Shawna E. Hampton r(E)-Visions Consulting www.revisionsconsulting.net -----Original Message----- From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 7:23 AM To: CF-Community Subject: The Trouble With Hiring Friends What's the general consensus on this here? I've had this argument with many friends throughout the years and people seem to fall into a few camps: 1.) Don't hire friends because it can ruin the friendship and that's more important. 2.) Do hire friends because that's what friends are for and NOT doing it will ruin the friendship. 3.) Hire them and, if they are truly friends and things go bad, they won't hold it against you or vice versa. I think I'm basically a #3. I'm thinking about it because I've been watching this Gonzo thing and it's reminded me of the various scandals in the Bush administration and they always seem to play out the same: 1.) "we did it right", 2.) "liberals hate America and baby jesus", 3.) "<crony> is doin' a heck of a job", 4.) <crony> is fired, 5.) "<crony> went off the reservation and it's all his/her fault." It's been the same thing with WMD, Iraq, Abu GrabAss, Katrina, Harriet Myers, Scooter, Gonzo, etc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:231718 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
